The TTC is set to hike fares by 10 cents and get a $53-million subsidy increase from the city to hire 50 more special constables as the transit service grapples with a spike in violent crime.
The TTC is set to hike fares by 10 cents and get a $53-million subsidy increase from the city to hire 50 more special constables as the transit service grapples with a spike in violent crime, Mayor John Tory announced Wednesday.
As with other transit systems during the pandemic, the TTC has been plagued by ongoing low ridership. Use has not rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, resulting in a sustained drop in the revenues that help fund the system. Last summer, ridership was at 65 per cent of pre-pandemic levels., triggering concerns that a recent spate of brutal and random attacks will keep people away from subways, buses and streetcars.
, Tory was skeptical that having 130 special constables could be considered “over-policing on a system as huge as this.” The TTC is a microcosm of Toronto, which is struggling with a mental health crisis, a housing crisis and a drug poisoning crisis, all of which have persisted for decades but which reached a tipping point during the pandemic.
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