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This post is written by Shaun Cleaver, a TTCriders Campaigns Committee member. It does not reflect an approved position of TTCriders.
What is stopping us from opening up the TTC early on Sundays? Metro News asks for our opinion
The Metro's Luke Simco wrote an article on the possibility of continuing early TTC service on Sundays. The TTC is open at 6.00am on Sunday during the PAN AM Games. We are supportive of this idea.
We're irked by the UP Express's low ridership levels, are you? Toronto Star covers our survey count.
The Toronto Star wrote an article about our study on the low ridership levels on the UP Express.
Marco, Shaun, and I (Jess) went up to Pearson Airport and counted ridership levels to verify Metrolinx's official ridership statistics. We found the trains were practically empty.
Why choosing a Scarborough subway alignment is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic
Mike Adler of Inside Toronto, covered the public meeting in Scarborough discussing the alignment for the Scarborough Subway. The City is asking residents to choose between Midland, McCowan or Bellamy.
We were asked to respond to the subway shutdown. We said stop cutting funding to the TTC.
Watch the CBC TV clip here. It's critical that you contact your councillor at 311 and tell them to stop the 2% cut to the TTC's budget. We need more funding, not less, to stop crises like these.
The Gardiner carries 5,200 people. The TTC carries 125,000 people. Which piece of infrastructure makes sense to invest in?
Oliver Moore from the Globe and Mail wrote about the equipment failure yesterday shut down Toronto’s entire subway system during the morning rush hour, laying bare the city’s reliance on transit and raising questions about priorities as council prepares to debate the future of the Gardiner Expressway.
We're in favour of the McNicoll Bus Garage because it will help bring frequent bus service to Scarborough
The Scarborough Mirror asked us for our feedback to the McNicoll Bus Garage town
hall. We said we're in favour of this project because it will bring more
frequent bus service to North East Scarborough. From the article:
The Ontario government's Pan-Am Games transit plan isn't enough for the vast majority of Torontonians
CP24 asked TTCriders to comment on the latest announcement by the Ontario Government on its plans to alleviate traffic during the PAN AM Games.
Watch the clip.
We question whether asking 20% of drivers to stay at home or take the TTC is adequate, given that the TTC is at breaking point already.
Rabble: Lack of funding number 1 for Toronto Transit, say activists
Jessica Vomiero of Rabble wrote a piece after talking to riders during our day of action in protest to the Wynne Government's refusal to fund the TTC in the 2015 budget.
Toronto Star: No more in liberal budget to improve service for TTC riders
Yep, the heading about summarizes it. Many of the announcements about improving service had already been announced or were funded in previous budgets.
This was supposed to be a transit budget but riders got essentially nothing new.