In a win for riders of the #SufferinDufferin and bus routes all across the city, today the TTC Board approved new express bus service on 7 routes, and additional bus service. The new service will relieve peak and off-peak crowding and means that we will enjoy more frequent, reliable service starting in Fall 2018.
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Please join us on the evening of Thursday, June 14 for our 2018 Annual General Meeting! RSVP below. Registration opens at
5:45 and the meeting runs from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at 452 College Street.
At our last Campaigns Committee meeting, we voted to endorse Keep Transit Public, a transit worker led campaign designed to promote better transit service to citizens and maintain sustainable, living-wage paying jobs in Toronto. This endorsement is in line with a core value that Toronto’s public transit system must remain publicly owned, controlled and run. Transit that is built and run publicly is usually cheaper, more likely to provide good service across the city, and is more accountable to riders. The TTC is already the most efficient in North America.
TTCriders caught this TTC advertisement a few weeks ago requesting applications for a new TTC CEO. When we reviewed the
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Ripping up plans will delay new transit, say riders groups
April 10, 2018 (Toronto, ON) – Transit advocacy groups TTCriders and Scarborough Transit Action say that the provincial government’s transit plans announced today will delay new lines and leaves Eastern Scarborough without rapid transit.
"Premier Ford wants to start from scratch. Sending projects back to the drawing board is guaranteed to cost us more and delay new lines,” said TTCriders spokesperson Shelagh Pizey-Allen. “We can’t afford to go backwards. Our transit needs funding, not political meddling.”
The transit Fair Fare Pass has arrived! After years of organizing by the Fair Fare Coalition, last week the City of Toronto officially launched transit discounts for people on Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program. Single fares will cost $2 and monthly passes will cost $115.50 for people who qualify.
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Scarborough students and residents urge Mayor, Premier to fund Eglinton East LRT
April 9, 2018 (Toronto, ON) – Scarborough students and residents demanded funding for the Eglinton East LRT at an Executive Committee meeting on the future of Toronto’s transit plans.
"We’re asking Mayor Tory and City Council to keep their promise to fund the Eglinton East LRT,” said Hana Syed, Vice President External of the Scarborough Campus Students' Union. “Scarborough students and residents can’t keep waiting for a rapid public transit network
Yesterday's provincial budget had good news and bad news for transit riders. Here’s the short story: The Liberal government is promising new transit and GO discounts, but TTC riders won’t see better service. There was also a troubling announcement that has us worried about transit privatization.
Thank you to everyone who joined us today for a Sardine Ride to Queen's Park! We had lots of fun despite the rainy weather.
Dozens of us traveled on the TTC from City Hall to Queen's Park, where we held a rally of more than 100 people. Thanks to our speakers from the Fair Fare Coalition, Amalgamated Transit Union - Canada, Scarborough Transit Action, Jane Finch Action Against Poverty, and the Toronto Chinese Seniors' Association!