(Toronto, ON) – Transit advocacy organization TTCriders has complained to Toronto’s Integrity Commissioner about a potential real or apparent conflict of interest related to Julie Osborne, an appointed member of the Toronto Transit Commission.
We’ve asked candidates whether they’ll invest in more TTC service, protect door-to-door Wheel-Trans service, expand TTC’s low-income discount, approve fare capping and more. View candidates’ detailed answers to our survey, information about their transit platforms, and more.
Do you still have TTC tokens or paper senior/student tickets or day passes? The TTC has announced that they will stop accepting TTC tokens and paper tickets after December 31, 2024. But the TTC will not be issuing exchanges. This is unfair to people who have saved up tokens and tickets, especially low-income seniors. Gift cards and permanent stamps never expire -- why are transit fares any different?
(Toronto, ON) – Transit advocacy organization TTCriders will hold a rally today at 5:00pm outside Bathurst Subway Station to call on federal Members of Parliament to invest in TTC repairs and new subway trains on Line 2 by accelerating implementation of the Canada Public Transit Fund. The rally is part of a national “Transit Action Week” being organized in 5 Canadian cities. (Cantonese, Mandarin, French spokespeople available.)
Read our letter to the Toronto Accessibility Advisory Committee about why the TTC must not make the Family of Services mandatory, and why "standing room only" service levels are an accessibility issue.
At a Wheel-Trans public consultation earlier this year, choir members delivered a musical message to oppose the TTC’s plan to force some people with disabilities and seniors onto the conventional TTC, also known as the "Family of Services" program.
Long-time Wheel-Trans user and choir member Jane Field explains why the Family of Services program must not become mandatory in this new video.
The TTC is continuing its plans to end free public Wi-Fi on subway stations, but has agreed to consider a pilot project to implement free internet on bus and street platforms and bays at stations.
A push is underway to keep free Wi-Fi service in place at TTC stations. CityNews reporter Brandon Rowe with why some insist the service can't be taken offline.
The TTC board voted Tuesday to continue with its plan to end free public Wi-Fi at subway stations, although it did agree to study the possibility of putting internet zones into bus bays in the future.
Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) Board members, transit and women's safety advocates are among those calling for the continuation and expansion of free public Wi-Fi on the TTC, after the transit network announced the service will be ending this year.
(Toronto, ON) – TTC Chair Jamaal Myers, Councillor Josh Matlow, transit users, and women's safety advocates held a press conference at Toronto City Hall to call for the expansion of free public Wi-Fi on the TTC.
Shelagh Pizey-Allen of TTCriders joins twelve prognosticators on what a Pierre Poilievre government could mean for the city in this Toronto Life article.
