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📸 Rally to Open the Crosstown

On February 19, 2025, TTCriders held the Rally to Open the Crosstown at Yonge and Eglinton to call for answers about the Eglinton Crosstown and Finch West LRT projects. Promised opening dates for the LRTs have come and gone, while transit costs have skyrocketed under Metrolinx. Transit riders are looking for answers and credible opening dates for the Eglinton Crosstown and Finch West LRTs.

TTCriders asked every party to invest in running TTC service and new LRTs with a 50% operating subsidy for local transit systems, and to give the TTC back control over running Toronto transit, to keep costs down and increase accountability.

 

They've never seen a public consultation like this one

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.

📸 Delivering a ticket to MPs for "fund evasion"

Volunteers delivered an oversized “fund evasion” ticket to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office on April 25, 2024. Transit users are urging the federal government to make critical investments in TTC reliability and safety by speeding up the Permanent Public Transit Fund and funding new subway trains.

2024 TTC & City of Toronto Budget Analysis by TTCriders

Last updated January 18, 2024

Read TTCriders' analysis of the 2024 TTC & City of Toronto Budgets, and how you can get involved.

TTCriders organized a Day of Action across the City of Toronto

On January 30, 2017, TTCriders organized a successful Day of Action across the City of Toronto. Volunteers converged at key intersections to mobilize riders and educate them on over-crowded routes, the recent fare hike, and the low per-rider municipal subsidy.

John Tory's Service Cuts

John Tory's transit budgets are methodically and systematically destroying the TTC through less frequent, slower and overcrowded service.

For the 2017 budget, John Tory is now talking about a minor increase in funding to avoid service reductions. The reality is that service already has been reduced due to TTC budget shortfalls. In addition to this, today's service does not even meet the TTC's own standards, due to overcrowded routes.

The 2015 Fare Freeze: a Victory we Riders Have Earned and Must Protect on Election Night

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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!

Efficiency, Efficiency, Efficiency

Efficient: adj. 2a. Acting or producing effectively with a minimum of waste, expense, or unnecessary effort.

“Efficiency” has been the buzz word of late in official discussions about the TTC.

I first noticed it in the TTC’s proposed 2014 operating budget document. A few days later I was at the TTC board meeting in order to depute on this budget and heard the TTC commissioners repeat this same word as an accomplishment and a primary concern.  I was a bit surprised at this emphasis on “efficiency”; here I thought that we would have a discussion about how to get the things that are more important to me as a TTC rider and a Torontonian, such as whether the TTC will help Torontonians get around more easily or quickly next year (the operating budget document helps answer that question, and the answer is basically “no”).

Bad Grades for TTC in TTCriders' Report Card

Today, TTCriders released its first ever report card evaluating the TTC’s performance from the perspective of TTC users.

The report card rates the TTC on how well it has done in achieving five goals important to TTC users which are key parts of  TTCriders' Vision: creating fair and affordable fares; building modern, fast transit to all corners of the city as fast as possible; making public transit fully accessible transit; providing frequent service that connects all of Toronto; and environmental sustainability.