The 2017 TTC Preliminary Budget was presented for the first time at City Hall today and it has given us new insight into what's in store for riders in 2o17.
The take home message is transit riders will be paying more for worse service in 2017.
The cost for riding the TTC goes up January 1st. "But riders, when you pay more you get more, right?"
Nope.
One week later, on January 8th, the TTC is adjusting its schedules with reduced service in the morning rush hour on 12 bus routes.
We had a campaign victory last night. City Council responded to our campaign and approved a discount pass for low income riders.
Thank you to all of you that worked so hard for this important step forward, including all members of the Fair Fare Coalition, the Toronto Chinese Seniors Association, CARP-TO, the Bob Rumball Centre, TDIN, Commitment 2 Community, Toronto Workers Airport Council, Access Alliance and many many more. Thank you also to the staff at the City of Toronto who worked on the report, including Ricardo Tranjan and Denise Andrea Campbell, and councillors Joe Mihevc and Pam McConnell for championing fair equity at City Council. It wouldn’t have happened without all of our hard work.
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The City’s claim in the Preliminary 2017 City Capital and Operating Budget
released on Tuesday December 6th that service will be maintained is not true.
The TTC is facing real service cuts.
We'd like to thank all of you for joining us at our end of year party on Friday, December 2nd.
Jagmeet Singh, Deputy Leader of the Ontario NDP, was our great keynote speaker. He spoke about the real need to bridge false divides, such as the divide between the suburbs and downtowners, to build a liveable city.
This is a guest post written by Spencer Navarra-Chew.
So here's the thing:
Scarborough, you're your own worst enemy. You had a chance to do something great and stand on your own feet as a city. You could have a fantastic, comfortable, fast LRT network that covers most of your fair city, just like the cool cities in Europe.
By Scarborough Transit Action This past Friday, the TTC announced that it would further modify the design plans for the Scarborough One-Stop Subway Extension in the face of pressure from car drivers and homeowners.
By Suhail Barot
Earlier this week, after yet another fare hike, the TTC Board passed on a budget to City Council that still contains more than a $60 million deficit. Today,
Over 100 transit riders attended the TTC Board meeting at City Hall on Monday, November 21st to speak against the fare hikes and service cuts in the controversial 2017 TTC Operating Budget. Thank you all so much for taking the time out of your busy lives to join us as we fight for our vision of a better more affordable transit system.
When the November Service Changes were released, we saw that service was being slashed on 20 routes and immediately suspected that these were cuts. In the past month, the TTC has intentionally misled the public to believe that these changes were merely routine tweaks to match service to ridership. Through Ben Spurr, we now know that if the TTC was only making changes to match service to ridership, service would have been improved on 43 routes. Zero of the improvements were made.
Not everybody loves details, but some people do. Here, we are providing riders of the TTC with information about service cuts in 2016 and 2017. This information is necessary because:
1) John Tory is starving the TTC of funding while claiming that he supports transit, and