TTCriders Releases Vote Transit Guide Before Provincial Election

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TTCriders released a transit voters’ guide yesterday that shows the provincial political parties are failing to improve TTC service and lower fares.

The Vote Transit guide reveals that no party has committed to regularly contribute fair funding of $700 million a year to the TTC so riders get more service and lower fares. Only the Liberal Party is presenting a specific and credible plan to expand public transit. Only the NDP has said it will not privatize the TTC.

This guide helps Torontonians easily understand what the NDP, the Liberal Party, and the Conservative Party are doing to fund the TTC, expand public transit, and stop the privatization of the TTC. TTCriders will distribute this guide to TTC users across the city.

“Riders are paying super high fares to be jammed like sardines on our street cars, buses and subways,” says TTCriders chair, Jessica Bell. “Our elected leaders need to do more to improve TTC service,” she said.

“When governments don’t fund the TTC, Toronto’s million daily transit users are slapped with fare hikes,” says Jennifer Huang of TTCriders. “Some riders are left making difficult choices between eating less, remaining isolated at home, or walking to shopping or community centres, because fares are so high,” she said. “When the parties are thinking about helping Torontonians keep money in their pockets they shouldn’t ignore transit riders,” she said.

The guide comes on the eve of the release of the much-anticipated provincial budget, which will include the Liberal Government’s plan to raise funds for transit expansion. The NDP has threatened to trigger an election if the Liberal Government proposes taxes on middle income earners to pay for transit expansion.

TTCriders’ Fair Deal for Riders campaign is calling on the Provincial Government to contribute $700 million a year to the TTC so riders can have more service and lower fares.

TTCriders’ Vote Transit guide will be regularly updated to reflect the political parties’ positions on public transit during the coming months.

TTCriders and friends are marching in an overcrowded bus prop from City Hall to Queen’s Park on Monday May 5 at 5pm to demand the provincial political parties give Torontonians more service and lower fares. RSVP today.

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