Toronto City Council voted to oppose the province’s transit takeover in December 2018. But you wouldn’t know it from attending one of the public consultations about the upload hosted by the City in June 2019. City Council is failing to take a strong stand to keep our transit system under local, public control.
The TTC held a public consultation meeting on Tuesday June 19th to share and seek feedback on issues explored in the 5-Year Service Plan and 10-Year Outlook. Local advocacy groups, community organizations, partner agencies, and the local public attended this stakeholder meeting to bring their ideas to the table and identify potential opportunities in the city that need to be addressed.
We have a big opportunity to show just how many people care about keeping the TTC under local control. In the coming weeks, the City of Toronto will hold four public consultations about the province's transit takeover.
The TTC is undergoing a process to develop a 5-Year Service Plan. There are some great things in the opportunities identified by the TTC already, but the plan is being limited in scope by the TTC to the current funding levels from the City. While this may be a responsible baseline to set for the service plan, they should be creating a roadmap for drastically improving service in a way that fully addresses overcrowding and reliability across the network. This would give us a fuller picture of what resources are needed from the City to adequately fund TTC service.
RSVP today to join our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday June 19th. Help elect our Board of Directors and celebrate what we've accomplished in 2018. Free for current members! Become a member of TTCriders or renew your membership. Not sure if you're a member? Email us at [email protected].
The provincial government will soon be voting on Bill 107, legislation that will give the Minister of Transportation new powers to decide what transit gets built (or doesn't get built) in Toronto. The provincial transit takeover means more delays, less accountability, and opens the TTC up to privatization. To improve transit, the province needs to reverse its $1.1 billion cuts to TTC funding, not break apart and take over the system. Please send a message to Premier Ford now and sign up to volunteer with us to oppose the TTC cuts and takeover!
Join the community march for better public transit in Malvern and Eastern Scarborough! We're marching to demand:
> Put the Eglinton East & Sheppard East LRTs back on the map!
The province is pushing ahead with its plan to take over our transit system and tear up plans that are already in motion, and is slashing $1.1 billion in TTC funding for basic maintenance. We can't afford more TTC delays! Join us at a subway station near you at the May 10th Day of Action. Then we'll converge outside 1900 Yonge (Davisville Station) at 9:30am.