More than half a decade after the COVID-19 pandemic emptied Toronto’s buses, subways and streetcars, the city’s transit agency is still struggling to recover and hit its ridership targets.
The Toronto Transit Commission has frozen fares for three years, slowly ramped up service and opened a new rapid transit line, but ridership is still lower than in 2019 and falling below expectations.
According to the agency’s 2026 budget document, hopes that more mandatory return-to-work orders would result in more passengers were misguided.
I suggest they have the insane and drug addicted make room for the homeless asylum seekers to boost ridership.
