TORONTO - Save your selfie TTC riders: John Tory already knows you’re grumpy.
The transit advocacy group TTCriders is encouraging people to send a selfie via Twitter with the hashtag #grumpyrider to elected officials the next time they feel “grumpy” while taking the TTC.
The social media campaign, which also includes Facebook and Instagram, is aimed at getting municipal and provincial politicians to “understand the collective frustration Toronto’s 1.7 million riders feel when we face overcrowding, delays, breakdowns, long wait times and more on the TTC,” according to TTCriders.
The group is calling on the city to push ahead with the TTC staff proposal to improve service on major routes, implement two-hour, time-based transfers, and to add express buses.
But Tory said Tuesday he knows people want better transit service.
“I didn’t need any grumpy selfies involving myself or anybody else who sent them to me to know that people want better service on the TTC,” he said.
“I have been devoting myself in quite a few of the briefings that I’ve been having to exploring ways in which we can get a better transit service.
“But I raise again the same question I raised during the election, which is, it is fine to talk about better service ... but we also have to make sure we know how to pay for it.”