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Over the past few years, careful readers of the annual TTC Service Plans will notice that more and more requests for new service are denied because they don’t meet the financial criteria. Today at the TTC we had yet another example, and it’s worth examining to see, in miniature, the problems brought on by blind, formulaic decision-making. Continue reading
Nearly two decades ago, we lost our trolleybus system in Toronto. Talking about that fight needs a long post of its own, but in brief, a collection of forces brought about the end of that network: Continue reading
A notorious aspect of TTC budgeting is that ridership projections are stated relative to last year’s budget, not relative to last year’s actual riding.
With a system bursting at the seams, everyone is waiting for the new service coming in the fall when the Ridership Growth Strategy finally starts to kick in. But, wait a minute, the TTC’s plans are not all they seem to be. Continue reading
Steve Munro 