The TTC Board met on February 24, 2025 with an agenda that seemed light going in, but the meeting itself ran well into the afternoon partly due to a long in camera discussion and partly to debates that expanded the scope of the items on the agenda.

Reports of interest:

• CEO’s Report
• KPI Report
• Supply of Battery-Electric Paratransit Buses and Green Bus Program Update
• Bloor-Yonge Capacity Improvements Project – Progressive Design-Build Development Phase
  • Presentation
• Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Pilot for Free Wi-Fi Service on Bus and Streetcar Platforms
• Transit Priority Measures on Queens Quay East – Interim Bus Priority Lanes
  • See my separate article on this item
• LRT Status Updates: Waterfront East and Eglinton East
• Improving the TTC’s Response to Major Snow Incidents
• An Urgent Need to Improve Bus and Streetcar Travel Time and Reliability

No Strategy for the TTC?

Notable by its absence was a report on establishment of a Strategic Planning Committee, an item approved by the Board on January 10 with an implementation plan due at the February 24 meeting. (See minutes at p. 3) Such a committee is vital so that consultation and planning can occur before and while the 2026 budget is in preparation, a process that gets underway in roughly June-July each year. If there is to be some brave new vision of what transit can become, there is no point in asking that it be included in an already final budget in December.