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On May 12, 2020, more than 50 organizations across Canada sent a letter to the federal government calling for emergency and permanent transit operating funding.
Does your organization want to sign on? Add your organization's name using this form. If you want to show support as an individual, send a message to your MP here.
The Canadian government is planning to spend billions on infrastructure to stimulate the economy and recover from COVID-19, including new transit projects and green infrastructure. But the federal Canada Infrastructure Bank invests in public-private partnerships, which cost the public more and are less accountable to us.
TTCriders has written to the Honourable Catherine McKenna, Canada's Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, and the Honourable Caroline Mulroney, Ontario's Minister of Transportation, about the need for emergency funding for public transit during COVID-19.
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NOTE: For up-to-date information on the coronavirus, please check reliable information sources like the Toronto Public Health website: www.toronto.ca/
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Public transit connects all of us and is relied upon by some of the most vulnerable people in our city. The TTC employs as many as 15,000 people, some of whom are contracted or temp agency workers who may have fewer protections such as paid sick days. To ensure that public transit riders and workers are able to practice social distancing, we are asking that the TTC:
The Ontario Liberal Party will choose their next leader on March 7th, 2020. With several candidates pledging to lower transit fares, TTCriders surveyed the Liberal leadership candidates about their funding commitments for public transit, reevaluating Ontario’s public-private partnership model for transit projects, the subway upload, and more.
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Sign up to help TTCriders reach thousands of transit riders about the critical need for more TTC funding in the 2020 City Budget. We'll be asking riders to call their City Councillor and take a photo with our selfie frame.
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