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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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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Here is some of the analysis and thinking we have been doing over the last week since the budget draft came out. In short, we have a lot of investments to make if the City is going to work, many of the items on it cannot be delayed further, and there are some sensible ways to fund them, but they need some shifts in approach.
Toronto City Council will soon be deciding how much funding to allocate to the TTC in the 2020 City Budget. This budget will impact our transit system for years to come.
Toronto is running out of buses and streetcars. The TTC has a 5-Year Service Plan that won’t keep up with our growing city. And transit riders are facing fare increases, because the TTC does not receive enough funding from the City or other levels of government.