Fare increases approved Tuesday by the TTC were necessary to prevent more drastic cuts, the transit body’s chair says. As expected, Adam Giambrone and the rest of the board voted to raise fares for 2010 to address a sizeable shortfall in the TTC’s operating budget.
Public transit riders may be asked to dig deeper in their pockets if a proposed fare hike is approved by a city committee on November 17, 2009. Riders could face fare increases of 25 cents, raising the total cost of the cash fare to $3.00. Tokens would increase similarly, up from $2.25 to $2.50 and the adult Metropass could increase to $126 per month, an increase of $17.
Byron MacDonald’s eight-year wait has paid off.
When the winning candidate for the 2015 Pan-American Games is announced Friday afternoon, there will be more at stake for Toronto then just sports glory. Improvements to the city’s infrastructure also hang in the balance.
When Canadian Olympic hurdler Priscilla Lopes-Schliep was growing up, Toronto had a severe lack of sporting infrastructure. That situation has changed now that Toronto has won the bid to host the 2015 Pan American Games….
A project geared at reducing travel time during rush hour has cost the city $40 million. The time saved: seven minutes.