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Transit and safe streets advocates including TTCriders are calling on the provincial government to allow enforcement cameras on TTC streetcars. The TTC Board voted on September 24 to support enforcement cameras and to request that the Minister of Transportation to amend the Highway Traffic Act, 1990 to permit the operation of streetcar enforcement cameras to monitor and enforce traffic violations.
TTCriders is answering the call of students and youth who will be walking out of class on Friday September 27 to take action on the climate emergency. We need better transit now and lower fares as part of the transition to a green and fair economy. Our goal is to hand out 1000s of flyers to transit riders that ask people to join the #ClimateStrike mobilization on September 27th and to take action for better transit. TTCriders will also be marching as a contingent in the September 27th rally.
Sign up below to join our volunteer outreach team at summer events and street festivals. Help us reach more people about the province's TTC takeover, privatization agenda, and transit funding cuts. We'll bring materials; you just need to show up!
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.