Transit News

What Public Transit Means to Jane and Finch Residents

 

[caption id="attachment_3407" align="alignleft" width="200"] Jane-Finch residents have a lot to say about the transit needs in their communities[/caption]

Last month TTCriders, the United Way Jane-Finch Action for Neighbourhood Change committee and the Toronto Environmental Alliance met at the North York Civic Centre to discuss how residents of Jane and Finch and surrounding neighbourhoods feel about public transit.  We decided that the best way to engage Jane and Finch residents was to host an information session to explain a little bit about the history around public transit in Toronto and how it relates to present and future transit service. Our goal was to use this information session as a starting point to have a dialogue with the community about what we as citizens can do to shape the future of public transit in Toronto.

Jane and Finch TTCriders March Break Info-Session

TTCriders will be hosting an information session next Friday March 14th from 10:00am-noon at Brookview Middleschool 4505 Jane St. north of Jane and Finch.

There will be a presentation and discussion period followed by more fun activities. You guessed it: bring your whole family as there will be colouring books for the kids!

TTCriders to deliver TTC Sardines Award to yet-to-be announced winner on Friday March 28

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Join TTCriders and friends at 12.00pm on Friday March 28 as we deliver the TTC Sardines Award to a yet-t0-be-announced elected official who has failed to fix public transit.

CBC's Metro Morning profiles the #TTCsardines photo contest asking riders for pictures of their overcrowded commute

Guest host Piya Chattopadhyay spoke with TTC Riders' co-chair Jessica Bell about the group's new TTC Sardines photo contest on Monday February 27.   Listen to the interview.

Who’s the ‘TTC Sardine Award’ winner? says Inside Toronto

This was published on Feb. 26 in Inside Toronto.  Thanks Rahul Gupta.

With TTC congestion worsening, transit riders might be forgiven if they’re feeling like a bunch of sardines these days as they attempt to squeeze onto already-packed subway trains, streetcars and buses.

Brenda Thompson tells the Star that privatization is underway

Brenda Thompson is a member of TTCriders and Scarborough Transit Action.

Privatizing TTC is not the answer, Letter Feb. 24

There has been a lot of discussion in the Star about the pros and cons of privatizing the TTC as if it is something we might decide to do in the future. In reality, the selling off of our public transit system has already begun.

TTCriders' Herman Rosenfeld's speaks out against privatization in the Toronto Star

The letter to the editor is outlined below.  Read the letter to the editor on the Toronto Star's website.

Re: Privatization is looking like the Better Way, Feb. 14

Privatization is looking like the Better Way, Feb. 14

TTCriders on CP24 Live at Noon

TTCriders was on CP24 today (Feb 27 2014) to talk about our campaign called #TTCsardines.  The TTCsardines campaign encourages people to take photos of their overcrowded commute and send it to www.ttcriders.ca.  TTCriders is going to take the best photo, turn it into a TTC Sardines Award, and deliver it to a decision maker who has failed us on transit.   Watch the video. 

What’s Missing from the TTC Privatization Debate

By: Marco Covi, TTCriders Recently Christopher Hume from the Toronto Star wrote an article about the TTC. Christopher Hume expresses that

A Three-stop subway not great…. a 47-stop LRT network much better.

EDIT (February 2016): TTCriders has updated its position statement on the Scarborough transit plan here.

 

The Scarborough Subway Extension (SSE) -a three-stop extension to the Bloor-Danforth line was approved by Toronto Council in 2013.  It replaces the earlier decision to replace the Scarborough RT with a 7-stop fully funded, shovel ready, Scarborough LRT line.

Tired of Being SARDINED on the TTC? Enter the TTC Sardine Awards

Tired of Being SARDINED on the TTC?

By the time the subway train arrives there’s a crowd on the platform. Tight for time, you squeeze in.

Tired of being SARDINED on your TTC commute? Ready to do something about it?

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