Everyone deserves to feel safe on the TTC. TTCriders is calling for proactive, effective, care-based solutions to transit safety and for the next Mayor of Toronto to invest in:
- Non-police responses to crisis and violence. The TTC needs a plan to tackle mental health crises with staff who are peer-led or peer-involved, trained in de-escalation, rather than relying on an enforcement approach that puts people experiencing mental health crises and Black, Indigenous, and unhoused people at risk of being harmed.
- Housing supports so people do not need to take shelter on the TTC. This includes keeping shelter hotels open, expanding non-congregate shelter spaces, a moratorium on encampment evictions, and collaborating with all levels of government to increase funding for affordable and safe Rent-Geared-to-Income housing.
- A resourced TTC with reliable service and supportive staff. Attracting transit users back to the system by reversing service cuts and expanding supportive staff roles are critical elements of a safer TTC.
Systems and governments outside of the TTC are failing to take care of people. The TTC will be safer when Toronto is safer.