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:

  1. 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. 
  2. 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. 
  3. 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.

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Being homeless or dealing with mental health challenges is not a crime. Unhoused people experience more violence than the general population, yet have been unfairly scapegoated for perpetrating violence on public transit. Expanding supportive staff on the TTC is a positive approach, but outreach workers on the TTC focused on connecting with unhoused people will have little effect if there are no safe, indoor alternatives to offer them.

We asked Mayoral candidates: Will you vote to fund a long-term transit safety strategy that 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?

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