After many years of campaigning, the city has
finally released its plan
to make the TTC more affordable. The plan recommends people on social assistance
Can you help us recruit new supporters to join us? To make it easy for you we’re incentivizing you to take action. For every person you convince to become a member we’ll give you another chance to win the December monthly metropass. All you need to do is share the Tell-a-Friend email below to your network.
TTCriders has launched the “So Efficient It Hurts” campaign to help Mayor John Tory make North America’s most efficient transit system even more efficient.
TTCriders will be releasing memes, short videos, and crowdsourced ideas on Twitter, Facebook, and the website soefficientithurts.com until the 2017 TTC budget reaches the TTC Board meeting on Wednesday, September 28, 2016.
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Who voted to have the TTC, along with all city departments, cut their budgets by 2.6% in 2017 and absorb all increases? That amounts to about a 12% cut folks!
Don’t rip off Scarborough riders
Are you a public transit rider?
Do you want:
- a low income pass?
This post was written by TTCriders Campaigns Committee member, Bill Worrell.
I distributed postcards at the picnic at Lotherton Summer Festival, 100 Lotherton Pathway, Lotherton Green Space (new Caledonia and Lawrence West) on August 20. It is an area of high-rise buildings where we just walked around, with no table. The event was organized by the North York Community House. There was food, music, bouncy castle, and information booths, etc. It was a real family event.
A week after the positive announcement that Toronto would be getting almost $500 million in federal infrastructure funding, it’s time to assess what that means for the TTC’s capital and operating costs.
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People with disabilities often have great difficulty in using transit. These difficulties usually occur because the transit system is not designed to be accessible to persons with disabilities.
Ridership is stagnating. Fare hikes are coming. Service could be cut.
The TTC is facing the worst budget crisis it's seen in decades. Our transit system needs $184 million just to maintain current service levels for next year, and City Hall is forcing the TTC to but their budget by another 2.6%.
“If I paid $50 instead of $141.50 for my monthly TTC pass I could pay rent.”
Your councillor has a big decision to make in two short months. Will your councillor say yes to the low income pass and help make transit more affordable for low income riders and people on social assistance so they can easily travel to work. Or will your councillor ignore transit riders and keep the TTC too expensive for so many of us.
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