Promises, Promises: 2023 Edition
https://stevemunro.ca/2023/06/02/promises-promises-2023-edition/

The Toronto Mayoral By-Election is just under a month away, and candidates pump out announcements daily, often with a transit spin. In this article I will look at the transit-related issues they are trying to address (or in some cases avoid). All of this takes place in a strange world where the availability of money […]
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A Transit Platform For Toronto
https://stevemunro.ca/2023/04/26/a-transit-platform-for-toronto/

Two months from now, on June 26, Toronto will elect a new Mayor thanks to John Tory’s unexpected departure. There will be at least fifty candidates on the ballot, although most of them will garner only a handful of votes. I am not one of them, and have no ambitions to high office. That said, […]
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A Single Fare For Cross-Border Travel, But …
https://stevemunro.ca/2023/03/23/a-single-fare-for-cross-border-travel-but/

The Ontario Budget announced on March 23, 2023, includes a commitment, sort of, to reducing cross-border fares for trips into Toronto. And we are making transit more affordable by eliminating double fares for most local transit services in the Greater Golden Horseshoe when commuters also use GO Transit services. Our government is working to expand […]
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TTC Board Meeting Update: January 9, 2023
https://stevemunro.ca/2023/01/10/ttc-board-meeting-update-january-9-2023/

The TTC Board met today to consider its 2023 Operating and Capital budget. To nobody’s surprise, they were adopted as written in spite of numerous public deputations and a few attempts by the Board to tweak the recommendations. For detailed background on the budgets, see: In the course of the meeting two fairly standard devices […]
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TTC 2023 Budget: A Bit More Subsidy, But …
https://stevemunro.ca/2023/01/04/ttc-2023-budget-a-bit-more-subsidy-but/

Mayor John Tory announced increased funding of $53 million for the TTC in 2023. To put this in context, the total TTC budget for 2022 was $2.28 billion for the conventional and Wheel-Trans systems. The total TTC subsidy will rise from $905.7 to $958.7 million. This has been presented as a “big thing”, but it […]
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