Ben Spurr of The Star reports on the progress of the Fair Pass program for low-income riders.
On March 17, 2020 the City of Toronto quietly stopped processing new applications to the Fair Pass TTC discount program.* Some current Fair Pass holders have been unable to renew.
This is completely unacceptable! Especially during a pandemic, when people are relying on the TTC for essential trips to access medical care and food. This change has caused confusion regarding who is still eligible to receive discounted fares.
Ben Spurr of The Star writes an article that reports on removing bus stops to speed up Eglinton trips. Click the article to read about TTCriders opinion on these cuts, and to read about a real experience from transit user Beulah Esuk.
Transit riders need more service to fix overcrowding. The City of Toronto will be bringing back laid-off bus operators in November, but it could run even more service now using its spare buses.
To increase service in the long-term, the TTC needs to order more vehicles soon. The TTC Board is voting Thursday October 22 to order more buses, streetcars, and subway cars. But the TTC needs Premier Ford and Prime Minister Trudeau to chip in to fully fund more vehicles.
TTCriders member Ketheesakumaran Navaratnam shares Scarborough public transit issues.
This article by Ben Spurr published in The Star discusses the implications crowded buses have on public transit users.
The TTC's plan to remove local bus stops along the Eglinton East RapidTO corridor violates its own service standards, according to a new analysis by Hayden Poon.
“Transit riders on Eglinton East want to keep our local stops and have more bus service,” said TTCriders member Beulah Esuk, who lives near one of the cancelled stops. “Removing local stops will make transit less accessible to the people who need it most.”
Ben Spurr of The Star discusses the new bus-only lanes.
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Students call on Premier, Mayor to provide safe transit as school starts
September 17th, 2020 (Toronto, ON) -- High school and post-secondary students are calling on Premier Ford and Mayor Tory to provide more TTC funding and service as classes return. Organizations representing hundreds of thousands of young people, including 140,000+ post-secondary students, released an open letter at a press conference Thursday morning about the urgent need to address crowding on public transit.
Premier Ford wants to cancel bus routes that are "low performing," and replace them with private companies like Uber.1
Is your bus at risk of being cut? The 24 bus routes pictured below carried fewer than 4,000 daily TTC riders in 2018.2 Could your bus be up for evaluation as a "low performing" route?