City Councillors are voting soon on TTC service levels and fares.
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Why is my bus overcrowded during a pandemic? Why are TTC fares so expensive?
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The letter below was sent by organizations to the Executive Committee and Mayor John Tory on November 17, 2020. You can take action by sending a message to your Councillor here.
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On March 17, 2020 the City of Toronto quietly stopped processing new applications to the Fair Pass TTC discount program.* Some current Fair Pass holders have been unable to renew.
This is completely unacceptable! Especially during a pandemic, when people are relying on the TTC for essential trips to access medical care and food. This change has caused confusion regarding who is still eligible to receive discounted fares.
Transit riders need more service to fix overcrowding. The City of Toronto will be bringing back laid-off bus operators in November, but it could run even more service now using its spare buses.
To increase service in the long-term, the TTC needs to order more vehicles soon. The TTC Board is voting Thursday October 22 to order more buses, streetcars, and subway cars. But the TTC needs Premier Ford and Prime Minister Trudeau to chip in to fully fund more vehicles.
The TTC's plan to remove local bus stops along the Eglinton East RapidTO corridor violates its own service standards, according to a new analysis by Hayden Poon.
“Transit riders on Eglinton East want to keep our local stops and have more bus service,” said TTCriders member Beulah Esuk, who lives near one of the cancelled stops. “Removing local stops will make transit less accessible to the people who need it most.”
Premier Ford wants to cancel bus routes that are "low performing," and replace them with private companies like Uber.1
Is your bus at risk of being cut? The 24 bus routes pictured below carried fewer than 4,000 daily TTC riders in 2018.2 Could your bus be up for evaluation as a "low performing" route?