Toronto’s poorer communities will be hardest hit by the TTC service cuts that take effect Sunday, according to the authors of a Toronto Metropolitan University study. Of the 39 changes, 28 pass through or connect with marginalized areas.
service cuts that take effect Sunday, according to the authors of a Toronto Metropolitan University study.study released Thursday found most of the routes identified for service reductions pass through poorer areas“These cuts will be felt by almost everyone living in the city, but we feel that most marginalized communities in the city will be disproportionately affected by them,” said Raktim Mitra, co-director of TMU’s TransForm Lab and lead author on the study.
In announcing its first phase of service changes at the end of February, the TTC said that it would apply an “equity lens” to planning, to protect service “for the communities that depend on transit the most.” But of 39 service changes that begin Sunday, most of the 28 that will experience the greatest service reductions pass through, or connect with, marginalized areas, the study found.
The trend continues in areas with a large proportion of dependants, meaning children and elderly people who do not have an income. Twenty-two of the 28 routes that will see longer waits connect with these areas. Finally, the study found, 24 of the 28 routes that will suffer from less frequent service are in areas with greater concentrations of recent immigrants and visible minorities.
However, Mitra said, “a focus on peak-hour public transit service is a flawed and dated approach, particularly in the context that marginalized people often do not work 9-5 jobs and many in these neighbourhoods rely on public transit for their everyday nonwork needs.”
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