Ben Spurr and Ben Cohen of the Toronto Star report on the 2025 City Budget. TTC riders are considered winners due to the investments being made in transit!
What's in the 2025 TTC Operating Budget?
Read analysis from TTCriders about what's being proposed in the TTC budget in 2025 and how to get involved! Members of the public can speak directly to City Councillors during budget hearings on January 21 and 22 at locations across Toronto.
TTCriders welcomes TTC plans for fare freeze, service restoration, state of good repair investment
TTCriders reaction to the release of the 2025 TTC budget.
Free Wi-Fi on subway platforms to end amid improvements, TTC says
Free TTC wi-fi is a safety and accessibility need. Toronto Today covers the issue and our Integrity Commissioner complaint, made "after the TTC board voted down a proposal to receive more information about a contract and cost estimate provided by Rogers."
TTCriders 2024 Wrapped
Check out TTCriders' top highlights from 2024. None of our efforts are possible without supporters and volunteers like you -- thank you!
‘My life would stop’: TTC’s Wheel-Trans disability rules raise riders’ fears, equity concerns
TTC’s paratransit service’s reassessment of its riders’ disabilities has some fearing they will face restrictions on their use of door-to-door service. Mahdis Habibinia and Abby O’Brien of the Toronto Star speak with TTC rider Jane Field.
Statement on Plain Clothes Fare Inspectors
(Toronto, ON) – TTCriders, a membership based organization of transit riders, released the following statement in response to the TTC's plans to deploy plain clothes fare inspectors:
Deadline to use TTC tickets, tokens, day passes extended until June 2025
Bryann Aguilar of CP24 covers the motion to extend the deadline to use legacy fares on the transit system passed by the TTC board on December 3, 2024.
TTC extends deadline to use tokens, tickets
The TTC board voted unanimously to extend the deadline to use legacy fare like tokens, tickets and day passes. Dilshad Burman of CP24 with further details about the new deadline.
TTC tickets, tokens and day passes get reprieve: Controversial phaseout delayed until June
Many riders were surprised by the transit commission’s announcement in October that it intended to discontinue the fares as of Jan. 1. Patty Winsa of the Toronto Star covers the decision to extend the deadline.
"Protect door-to-door TTC Wheel-Trans Service", advocates say as report outlines inequities from planned restrictions
Rhianne Campbell of City News covers the report from TTCriders which shows planned changes to Wheel-Trans could disproportionately affect three of the city's low-income neighbourhoods.
Report: Malvern, Lawrence Heights, and Rexdale would be most impacted by potential restrictions to door-to-door Wheel-Trans service
Malvern, Lawrence Heights, and Rexdale would be most impacted by planned restrictions to door-to-door Wheel-Trans service, according to data obtained through a Freedom of Information request by transit advocacy organization TTCriders.