#TTCSardines: Frustrated commuters call for lower fares, better service
Protestors dressed as sardines are seen outside city hall ahead of a march to Queen's Park to protest cramped transit conditions in Toronto on Monday, May 5, 2014. (CP24/Arda Zakarian)Omni TV news covered our rally where we gave MPP Glen Murray an award for failing to properly fund the TTC. We gave the award to the Liberal Government because they have failed to give fair funding to the TTC even though they have had the power to do so. This video shows the visuals!
Glen Murray gets sardined Liberal minister’s Twitter response to joke TTCriders award raises transit stink
By NOW NEWSAbout 100 protestors, some of them dressed as sardines, rode the subway from Queen’s Park to Transportation Minister Glen Murray’s Parliament Street constituency office Friday to present him with TTCriders’ first annual Sardine Award.
Transportation Minister Wins TTC Sardine Award
Why a transit advocacy group singled Glen Murray out for failing to fund transit, and who he thinks really deserves the blame.
- On March 28, a group of advocates dressed as sardines literally laid the blame for Toronto’s transit dysfunction on the doorstep of Ontario’s transportation minister Glen Murray, awarding him the inaugural TTC Sardine Award for failing to “fix public transit.”
The new more accessible longer more reliable street cars are great, but did you know there will be less street cars overall on downtown lines once these new street cars are up and running? That means we'll be waiting even longer for our ride.
Guest host Piya Chattopadhyay spoke with TTC Riders' co-chair Jessica Bell about the group's new TTC Sardines photo contest on Monday February 27. Listen to the interview.
This was published on Feb. 26 in Inside Toronto. Thanks Rahul Gupta.
With TTC congestion worsening, transit riders might be forgiven if they’re feeling like a bunch of sardines these days as they attempt to squeeze onto already-packed subway trains, streetcars and buses.
Brenda Thompson is a member of TTCriders and Scarborough Transit Action.
Privatizing TTC is not the answer, Letter Feb. 24
There has been a lot of discussion in the Star about the pros and cons of privatizing the TTC as if it is something we might decide to do in the future. In reality, the selling off of our public transit system has already begun.
The letter to the editor is outlined below. Read the letter to the editor on the Toronto Star's website.
Re: Privatization is looking like the Better Way, Feb. 14
Privatization is looking like the Better Way, Feb. 14