Public Transit

Public Transit in Toronto
Toronto shouldn't build any more subway or light rail until we use our existing network properly. There are over 100 empty parking places at the Scarborough GO station at the busiest time of day. You get downtown in 16 minutes and parking is free, but there's not one GO sign along Kingston Road for the drivers to see. No TTC buses connect with this GO station. Several buses pass very close along St. Clair Ave. and passengers could easily transfer here, save time and take some pressure off the subway, but the stop announced on the bus is not for the GO station but for a small local street, and of course you have to pay again. Toronto has numerous missed opportunities like this. Mayorial candidate John Tory hopes to get the city and provincial systems working together, and use existing surface rail, something that's long overdue.	If public transit were free then poor people would find it easier to get out and find a job, pay taxes and get off welfare. businesses would be able to pay slightly lower wages, hire more people, make more profit, and pay more taxes. TTC would be able to cut expenses and delays caused by fare collection. fewer assaults on TTC employees. maybe it would be a net gain for the public purse

Public Transit in Toronto