This is bound to fail.
When I go downtown I do have options -- I have a car and can drive or I could take a taxi. But that costs at least $25 and takes twice as long as the TTC.
Frankly, until the TTC fares get to the $10 a ride range -- or the service gets so insecure and/or dirty as to make it unusable -- the TTC will remain the better way for me.
So there is little stopping fare hikes except, perhaps, a realization that low income riders are hurt worst.
Toronto transit riders 'strike'
By BRYN WEESE, SUN MEDIA
The Toronto Sun
The TTC will be up and running tomorrow, even though some riders have been stressing about a "strike."
In fact, tomorrow's protest is a boycott by several thousand riders upset at the prospect of a fare hike next year.
The commission will be considering a cash fare hike from $2.75 to $3 on Tuesday. Student and senior fares could also increase by 15 cents, children's by 5 cents and the monthly cost of a Metropass from $109 to $126.
Organizers of the TTC Riders' Strike, as it's called on Facebook, are asking people to find another way around the city tomorrow.
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