Cloudy Future For Toronto Transit Commission
5 September 2001 - 1:00pm
The Toronto Transit Commission is 80 years old. The transit system that serves a million passengers a day faces a bleak future due to lack of funds.
"Even if the province does open the coffers once more - a big if - the money may go to support fanciful plans for new streetcars and rail lines proposed by the private sector rather than to pragmatic expansions urged by the TTC and GO Transit.How did a transit system that moves more than a million riders a day become the unwanted child?"
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Transit needs help
Source:
The Toronto Star, September 5, 2001
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