Safety

As Mayor, Olivia Chow has made record investments in safety on the TTC. She has hired 420+ new frontline safety staff, including new community service ambassadors, Streets to Homes crews, and Toronto Community Crisis Service workers, who are already working to make the TTC safer. She is committed to expanding TCCS mental health workers across the TTC, installing platform edge doors, and building the shelters, affordable, and supportive housing our city needs to get people the help they need. 

Safer TTC means care first: expand Toronto Community Crisis Service across the network; platform edge doors starting at busy stations like Bloor-Yonge; upstream housing and shelters so no one has to sleep on the TTC. More staff visibility, lighting, and frequent service — not blank-cheque enforcement. Community safety is built with neighbourhoods; mental-health crisis response belongs with trained crisis workers.

I believe that ttc enforcement or the police should be the first call when it comes to dealing with a potentially violent situation that can affect everyone riding the ttc. The police and ttc enforcement dont always need to lay a charge but i believe they have more of the training involved that is suited for handling serious situations.

The TTC cannot be a place for crime and loitering. More officers must be employed.

The TTC needs well trained security people (not fare inspectors), and enough strategically placed social workers to deal with crisis situations.   Let's make it even better, safer, more accessible and possible for everyone to ride.  

Safety on the system comes first, with violent crime first and crime/disorder addressed. I support rider-safety measures such as platform edge doors, continued crisis-response capacity, and upstream housing when delivered competently and accountably—without inventing a price tag or megaproject pledge. Fiscal discipline at the TTC means scrutinizing waste. Build the houses with actual units so people are not left to use the system as shelter.

I do not believe more police presence on the TTC is the solution.

Transit safety requires both immediate responses and long-term solutions. I support expanding appropriate non-police crisis-response options, improving the physical safety of stations, and addressing the housing and social conditions that can leave people without safe alternatives. Platform edge doors, better lighting, reliable service, accessible infrastructure and trained staff all contribute to a safer TTC. Everyone deserves to be able to use Toronto's transit system with dignity.

Safety must be a priority. Every rider deserves  a safe, clean and secure TTC.

Offence rates on the TTC have come down, but many riders still don't feel safe. I would look at the data on where incidents happen and why, allocate resources accordingly, and set measurable safety objectives that are reported publicly.
Someone in a mental health crisis needs a crisis worker, not a police response. I support expanding the Toronto Community Crisis Service across the network. I would also increase the visible presence of trained TTC staff, including officers with de-escalation and mental health experience, in major stations and circulating through the system.
Safety is also about conditions: well-kept, well-lit stations and actual platform screen doors, starting with the most crowded stations and expanding throughout the system. 
Transit should never be anyone's safest place to sleep. My top priority is ending chronic homelessness using a housing-first approach, maintaining emergency shelters while we build supportive housing with hospitals and other partners.