Our canvassing at Kennedy Station last Thursday morning was a huge success!
Many riders stopped to take copies of our
#TTCSardines: Frustrated commuters call for lower fares, better service
Protestors dressed as sardines are seen outside city hall ahead of a march to Queen's Park to protest cramped transit conditions in Toronto on Monday, May 5, 2014. (CP24/Arda Zakarian)[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
TTCriders released a transit voters’ guide yesterday that shows the provincial political parties are failing to improve TTC service and lower fares.
The Vote Transit guide reveals that no party has committed to regularly contribute fair funding of $700 million a year to the TTC so riders get more service and lower fares. Only the Liberal Party is presenting a specific and credible plan to expand public transit. Only the NDP has said it will not privatize the TTC.
Omni TV news covered our rally where we gave MPP Glen Murray an award for failing to properly fund the TTC. We gave the award to the Liberal Government because they have failed to give fair funding to the TTC even though they have had the power to do so. This video shows the visuals!
Glen Murray gets sardined Liberal minister’s Twitter response to joke TTCriders award raises transit stink
By NOW NEWSAbout 100 protestors, some of them dressed as sardines, rode the subway from Queen’s Park to Transportation Minister Glen Murray’s Parliament Street constituency office Friday to present him with TTCriders’ first annual Sardine Award.
Transportation Minister Wins TTC Sardine Award
Why a transit advocacy group singled Glen Murray out for failing to fund transit, and who he thinks really deserves the blame.
- On March 28, a group of advocates dressed as sardines literally laid the blame for Toronto’s transit dysfunction on the doorstep of Ontario’s transportation minister Glen Murray, awarding him the inaugural TTC Sardine Award for failing to “fix public transit.”
As the city begins to emerge from winter’s fierce grasp, the merits of making buses and streetcars free on the TTC’s overnight Blue Line service during Cold Alerts seem especially clear.
City services provided during Cold Alerts to those who are homeless reflect a vision of Toronto as a caring community: Warming Centres, street outreach to bring more people into city shelters, and health care for those who get frostbite and hypothermia. It only makes sense for the city to also provide free transit at night to make it much easier for those on the street to get to a warm place to sleep.
The new more accessible longer more reliable street cars are great, but did you know there will be less street cars overall on downtown lines once these new street cars are up and running? That means we'll be waiting even longer for our ride.