Want to know where your candidates stand on transit issues? We have you covered. Below, check out your Councillor's voting record on lly transit issues, our Mayoral Transit Report Card, and list of candidates who've signed the TTCriders transit pledge.
Check out this event from Action Keele, a new group organizing around transit issues on Keele Street.
Transit Justice in the Inner Suburbs
October 13 1:00-3:00PM
Downsview Library - 2793 Keele St
Do you receive OW or ODSP? Please complete our survey about the Fair Pass transit discount program before November 15th.
Information from this survey will be used to understand how well the City of Toronto Fair Pass Program is working. We will advocate for changes to the program and its implementation based on our findings. We will also advocate for what is necessary to ensure people, especially those living on low income, can afford to ride the TTC and can get where they need to go.
Yesterday morning we were joined by representatives from King St. businesses, residents' associations, and business improvement areas to launch the 2-Hour Challenge on King Street - a contest to encourage transit riders to use their new 2-hour transfers to visit local businesses in the King St Pilot area.
Join your neighbours in Etobicoke Centre and Lakeshore on October 17th to talk transit. Hear from community leaders and transit riders about the issues, and how you can get involved.
Elected officials and municipal candidates are invited to attend the
A new report from Ryerson University's City Building Institute (CBI) calculates the value of time savings from the King St. Transit Pilot. Based on the data available they estimate that the project saves riders $11.5 million in time savings per year. Based on their findings, Ryerson CBI recommends that "Toronto City Council should make the project permanent, and expand it to maximize benefits to transit riders and the City."
The TTC belongs to us. We paid for it, we own it. If Premier Ford wants to fix our overcrowded transit system and make it more affordable, the province needs to provide a dedicated operating subsidy to the TTC, not break it apart.
Oliver Moore of The Globe and Mail reports on the settlement of the Metrolinx lawsuit.
The TTC belongs to Toronto. We pay for it through our TTC fares and our property taxes. The TTC has owned, operated, and maintained Toronto's public transit system since 1921.
But Premier Doug Ford is planning to break apart the TTC and upload the subway to the province. His plan will mean less say for riders, higher fares, and opens the TTC up to privatization.
Transit users across Toronto can now take advantage of a two-hour transfer
window when travelling on the TTC with a PRESTO card. This much needed change,
introduced on Sunday August 26th, will afford transit users greater flexibility
Newly released data from the City of Toronto from May and June confirms that the King Street pilot is working!
The 504 streetcar is the busiest surface transit route in the city, with 72,000 riders per day before the pilot began. But we all know that the street wasn’t working for anyone - traffic congestion made it faster to walk than take transit, and overcrowding and unreliable travel times discouraged people from taking the streetcar to travel along King Street.
We're asking candidates for Mayor and Toronto City Council to pledge their support for a fairly funded public transit system, so that riders get better service and lower fares.
Despite the gains TTCriders and our allies have won over the last four years, the TTC remains overcrowded, unreliable, and unaffordable. The low income transit discount is a step in the right direction, but with half of the passes going unused, we need deeper discounts rolled out faster. We are asking candidates to pledge their support for: