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🚎🌆🏳️‍⚧️😷 they/them in transit, organizer @ttcriders, transit researcher @UXforcities

I stopped posting here. follow me on 🦋bsky: auguststreet

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

the most gender euphoria i have experienced recently is from this conservative reply guy affirming my nonbinary-ness

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

@citizensof416 ? you're blaming some kid like me over the fact that the councillors that represent jane street, including my own former councillor, has always neglected to listen to people who take transit? think about your own ethics as a white man painting some false history.

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

@citizensof416 i lived most of my life on jane street. if you're going to masquerade as someone who knows city hall, at least learn some history - TTCriders had been pushing for far longer to get lanes on jane street for years. the councillors keep blocking it because they don't care about TTC.

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

@citizensof416 according to the TTC from a year ago, it's about a 50/50 split between transit ridership and car occupancy. but jane has more cars and more transit riders than bathurst

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

@citizensof416 they also count car occupancy twice if they commute on the same road morning and afternoon so it does not make a difference.

this is how transit and car occupancy is calculated everywhere. at the end of the day, more people rely on the bus on bathurst, that's all that matters

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

@citizensof416 21,000 on the 7 bus and 22,000 on the 511 streetcar from the same source. that's quite clearly over 35,000 when accounting for overlap. math. try to keep up, paul

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

@citizensof416 maybe spend less time cooking up conspiracies out of nothing and more time using your common sense.

it's been public knowledge for a while that bus lanes were planned for 2026, which meant consultation had to happen sometime between spring to fall of 2025. this ain't hard.

[TTCriders @ttcriders]

Over 75 residents rallied last night for answers about the Crosstown & Finch West LRT projects!

7 provincial election candidates signed an oversized cheque for #TTC operations funding, against a backdrop of an oversized ribbon & scissors.

PRESS RELEASE: https://t.co/xVAXoQPBSk

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

few hours ago: least frequent bus route in the city bunched together, meaning an hour gap between yonge buses🤦

there's no good reason both of these buses should've left the station at the same time. someone's waiting an hour for their bus in this snowstorm

just why, TTC?

[More Transit Southern Ontario @moretransitso]

TUESDAY @ 12PM: Toronto’s SmartTrack started as an ambitious transit plan under Mayor John Tory in 2014, but over the years, costs have went up, now with only 3 stations planned to be built.🚆

https://t.co/661oN7O5Dg

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

@hehhehhyohyo it's just an expectation that the TTC has put in the operating budget every year since, like, 2022-2023 lol.

they know no better than you and I as to when the LRTs will open

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

a little peek at upcoming service improvements if the approved TTC budget gets passed as-is, as part of the city budget.

this reveals some of where the greatest service hours growth will be invested in, and the surface routes where the bunching pilot will be deployed.

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

once again putting this here. TTC fares rise well above inflation, yet property tax increases have long lagged behind.

transit riders deserve affordable transit. we already pay more in fares to run the TTC than nearly every other system in north america

https://t.co/c5Ra3fGQz5

[TTCriders @ttcriders]

1) On affordability, Mayor Olivia Chow told CBC News in a year-end interview that she is considering a welcome fare freeze in 2025. Fares have been gone up faster than inflation over the last 30 years, because the #TTC depends so much on rider fares for its operating budget.

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

many city councillors are speaking in opposition to the TTC fare freeze & pushing to increase fares to save some $22 on property owners' taxes so I pay $80 more to take transit yearly.

meanwhile our yearly rent is up by nearly $800. affordability for whom in toronto?

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

it does not make sense to raise fares and result in $60-$80 more in annual fare expenses to transit users, disproportionately lower income & renters, to protect $22 on average for each property owner's tax bill. your avg property owner has more money than your avg transit user.

[TTCriders @ttcriders]

"For decades in Toronto, property taxes barely went up. Even after last year's historic increase, Toronto remains the fourth-lowest residential property tax jurisdiction in Ontario."

In contrast, #TTC fares rose nearly 2x rate of inflation over 3 decades.
https://t.co/bWyx2b3GoZ

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

some school boards hand out tickets to students, but it's not a universal or adequate solution at times. some kids need to take more trips for extracurriculars, or to travel with their family outside of school hours, and it's still a barrier. keep supporting free student transit!

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

all of canada's major transit systems & dozens more smaller agencies offer free transit for kids.

i hear grumbles from the more fortunate ppl on this, but it's a really important program for low income families to afford sending kids to school without racking up fare costs.

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

free transit for kids 12 & under was implemented in 2015 in toronto (one good thing john tory did, lol), a few years after i would've been young enough to qualify.

coming from a low income family, taking the TTC was a strain between needing tickets for everyone in the household.

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

@JakeLandauTO ah interesting, ik of the project on the west side of yonge over there but didn't know that they're planning to rebuild york mills centre

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

@JakeLandauTO the 96 has also long been cut from the 10 min network so it's a good return, and the 165 has climbed up to be among the TTC's busiest surface routes through the pandemic. good to see!

+1 on station redesign, although for york mills it's, perhaps, prohibitively expensive