The provincial budget proposes major funding cuts to our public transit system: $1.1 billion over 10 years. These cuts put accessibility upgrades and the TTC’s goal of having a fully accessible system by 2025 at
Over the past two weeks we've been inundated with bad news for transit in Toronto, including major cuts to provincial transit funding and an upheaval of our city's transit plans. But there was some good news brought to us by City Council last week: The King Street Pilot is here to stay!
Premier Ford is tearing up our city's transit plans and scrapping the
Eglinton East and Waterfront LRTs.
The province intends to send the Relief Line back to the drawing board and use as-yet unknown technology, even though the station
A city staff report came out this morning with recommendations to make the King Street Pilot permanent, and Mayor John Tory has already voiced his support. This is a huge victory for the 84,000 passengers that travel along the corridor every day.
Things have been quiet on the King Street Pilot front so far this year... but that is about to change!
A final report from the City about the pilot is set to come out next week and will include an evaluation of the project's success and recommendations on how to move forward. The report will be presented to City Council's Executive Committee and the TTC Board before going to City Council for a vote.
City Council votes on Wednesday March 27th on whether to stand strong against Premier Ford's subway takeover. The time to act is now. Join the day of action to save our subway!
Save Our Subway! City-wide Day of Action
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KEY POINTS TO MAKE:
Last Thursday our City Council voted on this year’s budget, including how much
funding to give to the TTC. Two motions were moved by Mike Layton to dedicate
new funding to the TTC: 1) raise property taxes to cancel fare increase 2)
ADVISORY March 8, 2019
UTSC students and Scarborough residents will board buses to stop Ford’s
Guest blog post by Dr. Anna Kramer, with TTCriders.
Join TTCriders at International Women's Day. 11am at OISE (252 Bloor Street West). RSVP on Facebook.
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