Ottawa's new Stadler FLIRT train system for the north-south Trillium Line during an unveiling event at Walkley Yard on July 15, 2022.
Public transit agencies and advocates gathering to lobby for federal funding heard this week that Parliament will not be left holding the bag for what the governing Liberals see as a provincial duty.A train at Ottawa's Walkley Yard. Canada's largest transit agencies have yet to find their way out of a dark fiscal tunnel.
"Funding levels and those reductions lead to less frequent service. It discourages ridership and creates the worsening financial shortfalls that are already at risk of drowning Canada's transit agencies." However, it favours the sort of capital projects that provide photogenic ribbon-cutting events and not money for day-to-day operations."But at the same time, we can't have premiers say, 'Well, we're not going to fund it. Go speak to the federal government.' We're not there to catch the ball for every time the premier drops it, as much as they would like us to. Pressure needs to be placed upon them.
Andrew McCurran, TransLink's director of strategic planning and policy, expanded on that point, laying out a multi-tiered strategy for articulating transit's economic and social value — along with its ability to improve traffic congestion and lower emissions.
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