With the release of the Ontario Budget, Premier McGuinty broke an important promise by cutting $4 Billion in funding for Transit City. At best, this means a five year delay. Most likely however, this cut will kill the Transit City Plan.
Take Action & Save Transit City!
Take Action & Save Transit City!
We need your help in a city-wide effort to save Transit City. If you care about the future of our public transit system, please contact your MPP now!
Transit City will finally provide desperately needed rapid transit to Toronto’s inner suburbs which include several priority neighbourhoods. It will remove millions of cars from our crowded streets, helping to address some of the world’s worst gridlock while reducing our greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful pollutants.Transit City is too vital to Toronto to be delayed. That's because delay:
- Dooms Torontonians to overcrowded, slow bus service and will only add to some of the world’s worst commuter gridlock
- Means more deaths due to smog as Torontonians will continue to use polluting cars without new Light Rail Transit
- Harms Toronto's economy by eliminating thousands of promised Transit City jobs
Less than two years ago McGuinty said,
“The time to make this sort of ambitious realistic investment is now. Our economy demands it. What’s more, our families deserve it, because gridlock not only saps strength out of our economy, it steals time from our families.”McGuinty Government Action Plan for Rapid Transit Will Move the Economy Forward – June 15, 2007
Now, Premier McGuinty has broken his promise. If enough of us share our frustrations with our MPPs, it will be clear to them that the political price for delaying Transit City is too high and we can force the Government to reverse this very bad decision. With your help, we can put Transit City back on track!
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