On Monday May 30th at 9:30am the City's Planning and Growth Management Committee is meeting at City Hall in Committee Room #1. At this meeting Committee members will be discussing two very important public transit issues and we need people to speak up for more and better public transit!
This Wednesday's TTC meeting features a staff report on how to improve bus service on the overcrowded Finch Ave West route. A PDF summarizing the report can be downloaded from the TTC's website. (To download the full report Click here.)
The following are a series of public meetings on public transit. Please
consider attending one of these events and have your say about the Mayor's new
transit plan, the upcoming cuts to 41 bus routes, the City's agreement to use
On the morning of March 31st, Mayor Ford finally revealed the plan he wants to replace Transit City with. There are lots of pretty lines on the map. But reading the fine print shows suburban Torontonians are the big losers.
Email or Call your elected officials today to have your say on Toronto's transit future!
Today the Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) released new maps comparing the original Metrolinx light rail transit plan with the one rumoured to be proposed by the Mayor and Premier.
On Valentine's Day transit riders got a lovely note from Metrolinx board member and former Chief Planner for Toronto, Paul Bedford. In his excellent editorial, Ford's critical 100-year decisions, Mr. Bedford provides hope for TTCriders by illustrating how "progressive planning is not the exclusive preserve of the left or the right."
Our friends at the Pembina Institute have been preparing for the unveiling of Email your Councillor and ask them to support Transit City now.
Work is under way to bring light rail transit to the neighbourhoods across the City that surround Sheppard Ave, Eglinton Ave, and Finch Ave, but Mayor Ford has ordered the TTC to stop this work.
This week the Public Transit Coalition (PTC) released an report card grading some candidates for City Council on a range of transit-related issues.
Candidates where emailed 10 "Yes or No" questions about building the Transit City plan, keeping the TTC publicly owned and governed, and the need for sustainable operating subsidies to keep TTC fares in check. The complete list of survey questions and over 100 candidate responses can be found sorted by ward here.
The following editorial was submitted to TTCriders.ca in response to the
Premier's decision to "delay" $4 Billion in Transit City funding in the spring
budget.