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First Time in Canada
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 12, 2020
TORONTO -- Forty-five organizations representing physicians, business, labour, and transit users today released a letter calling on the federal government to provide emergency financial aid to Canada’s transit authorities.
It represents the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak that groups from across the country have come together to urge support for agencies suffering up to 90 percent ridership loss.
On May 12, 2020, more than 50 organizations across Canada sent a letter to the federal government calling for emergency and permanent transit operating funding.
Does your organization want to sign on? Add your organization's name using this form. If you want to show support as an individual, send a message to your MP here.
The Canadian government is planning to spend billions on infrastructure to stimulate the economy and recover from COVID-19, including new transit projects and green infrastructure. But the federal Canada Infrastructure Bank invests in public-private partnerships, which cost the public more and are less accountable to us.
TTCriders has written to the Honourable Catherine McKenna, Canada's Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, and the Honourable Caroline Mulroney, Ontario's Minister of Transportation, about the need for emergency funding for public transit during COVID-19.
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Public transit connects all of us and is relied upon by some of the most vulnerable people in our city. The TTC employs as many as 15,000 people, some of whom are contracted or temp agency workers who may have fewer protections such as paid sick days. To ensure that public transit riders and workers are able to practice social distancing, we are asking that the TTC:
The Ontario Liberal Party will choose their next leader on March 7th, 2020. With several candidates pledging to lower transit fares, TTCriders surveyed the Liberal leadership candidates about their funding commitments for public transit, reevaluating Ontario’s public-private partnership model for transit projects, the subway upload, and more.
ADVISORY
25 February 2020
ADVISORY: Commuters rally against GO-TTC cuts
Commuters could be paying up to $780 per year when the province ends the popular GO-TTC $1.50 co-fare discount program at the end of March. Community groups across Toronto are asking the provincial government to keep the GO-TTC co-fare. Volunteers will hand out thousands flyers to commuters on Thursday February 27th.
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Muriel Draaisma of CBC News reports on the TTC looking into ways they can stop transit riders from committing fare evasion; however, TTCriders says that the TTC should look into the deeper causes of fare evasion.