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YES, AND SO SHOULD HIGHSCHOOL STUDENTS… ANYONE GOING TO SCHOOL FOR THAT MATTER

College Students are already getting the Metropass at a discounted price. What about those V.I.P Passes issued at Colleges such as George Brown? University Students should have the same privileges as well.

The Gov. complains that the overloaded highways are costing billions of dollars because it slows down production. They have suggested that our taxes be raised to conteract this situation. If the GO train and the TTC were FREE than the highways would be less congested (Billions of $ would be saved) and all the transit users (new ones and old ones) would be happy. A WIN WIN situation. The Government only seems to know how to increase the tax payers costs when they get themselves into debt. The Gov. takes the least route of resistance. Shame on them!!!!

I noticed this morning that you said people were “hoarding” tokens… as if this were something evil and underhanded. In any other situation when the public knew in advance of a price increase of a particular commodity they might be said to be “stocking up.” What makes the TTC different from say gas, or bread, or any other supply?

Apart from that, it’s a shame that the TTC is in the position that it has to charge the few who still use it more to do so.

When I was a student at U of T, I would have loved a discount. It would have made my commute much cheaper.

When you are paying a minimum of $5000/year for tuition, plus the cost of books and supplies, $126 more per month is a scary thought.

To Roman: So, because students need to relax a bit and go out for a few drinks, they shouldn’t be allowed a discount on a Metropass? Should they just stop spending any money on things that are not complete necessities??? Also, remember that the legal drinking age is 19…many students entering post-secondary education are 17.

To Patrick: High school students already get discounts.

As a Senior on a Low Income I would appreciate not having to deal with another increase that is not afforded by me as I use Wheel Trans because of severe health mobility. I hear from other Seniors who do not renew their prescrtions because they can’t afford them but need to get out of the house or depession sets in. The Government Pensions have not been keeping up with inflation and some Seniors are cutting down on healthy foods as they have not got enough to live on. Everything is either going up or taxed. Enough is enough. Cut down on unnecessary staff or greedy employees and give the paying riders a break. I myself will not be able to be paying more for tickets. I’m sure I’m not the only one. Please don’t do this to your riders.

Yes, students should be given a break but where is the break for single parents on one income who HAVE to take transit to get to work. It was bad enough that they took away our free parking and have had to pay out an additional $6.00 per day.

the student monthly passes are currently at $91.25…according to the Sun, it will go up to $104.00 when this fare hike gets approved…is this really protecting students?

All levels of Gov’t have downloaded user fees on each of us over the past several years. This is no different. If you want to ride it you must pay for it. I personnaly don’t use the TTC but have been contributing to its existance through fuel purchases at the pump and through the many other taxes imposed on ALL of us. I pay for my car, insurance, maintenance and repairs, so please don’t ask us for more contributions if this hike does not pass. You don’t see me asking for a hand out to support my means of transportation so why should you?

Between the TTC and the HST, I won’t ever be able to get ahead. How can there be millions of Torontonians using the TTC each and every day and there’s still never enough money? There should be some investigation and evaluation on the jobs that are actually required because I always see people walking very slowly in those burgundy jackets. No one working at the TTC ever seems to be in a hurry. There are thousands of people worried about their jobs during the recession except those people that work under the protection of the TTC. This is all getting to be a little ridiculous.

hey, when what I heard, or thought I heard on the radio 87% indicated against, I was very disappointed. I rarely feel compelled to write about anything (twice in 55 years), but in this case I was gung ho.
I was glad to see it was a misunderstanding, and most people actually favour this idea. Living outside of TO and in fact the GTA, I regularly hear about the local residents with their hands out looking for provincial subsidy, but outside of TO, there are no school pools, no subsidy for public transit, in fact very restricted public transit. In our jurisdications, you get what you pay for, use it, pay for it, so we regularly ask why do they feel entitled to our tax $’s as a subsidy.
I see from other comments, frustration in what the public service is earning, and I hear their pain. Hard to believe someone selling tickets could be worth more (probably double or more) than someone ringing through a large grocery order, but hey, if any of us could score one of those jobs, would we be complaining? Irregardless, some mechanism does need to be in place to evaluate and justify salaries across the board. Sound like another bureaucracy, perhaps, but some sort of rationalization does need to take place. If I were to take transit from my place, I would have to drive 15 minutes (opposite direction) to get to it, and close to an hour to get to where I could walk to work, about 10 minutes. My 45 minute drive, would become closer to 1 1/2 hours. I choose to live where I do, not a city person, but $3.00 seems to me like a bargain compared to gas, vehicle maintenance, parking, etc,…..
I’m not complaining about my costs, they are my choice, but I do think there needs to be a reality check,…public transit is a bargain even if it is overpriced.

I think it’s time for us to change our career, and find a job at the TTC. In this wealthy TTC family, you get all kinds of job protection including fare hike to supprot your greed to make a 6 figure salary. And, the good thing is you don’t have work hard to make that much.

TTC is a monomoly which is backed by government. Most users of this dumb system take TTC because they do not have the options to take anything else. An advise to someone who wants to make money – create a new transit system which will use efficient buses and cost less. The system must be reliable. Unlike TTC, which I have to take every day and for the past 3 years, Downsview station buses never show up on time and some never come. TTC employees brake TTC by-law NO.1 by smoking on the property. Shame on corrupted system!

In certain European countries seniors travel free on public transportation; yes students should get a discount (colleges already do).

High school students shouldn’t be paying at all if they require public transportation to get to their schools.

It is time we looked at why these services are costing so much instead of putting it back on the riders each time.

Hello.

1. I think it interesting that talk over the TTC and its operating budget has largely shifted to focusing to adding post-secondary students as an exemption, RATHER than the controversial $450 million sick day bank… I think that issue should be re-addressed.

2. I think the TTC is a broken system. Its employees EXTREMELY overpaid and the service they provide… well sucks. Drivers OBVIOUSLY take inappropriate breaks, create convoys of buses, take breaks in the MIDDLE of a route.

Yet of all the talk, not once do we hear anything about their wages or the crappy system. Just that A) they need more money and B) they want to expand services to ‘fix the problems’.

Sorry, but if you can’t run the system on the overpaid employees you currently have, don’t pour more money into what will be hiring more overpaid employees (mind you during a recession) to just as bad a job.

OK, what’s TTC lame excuse this time? The ridership increased. How come they hike the fare when there ain’t enough rider, now hike the fare where are too many riders!!! They are running a business model that will never breakeven, forget about making money! Do they care? NO. The true reason – MONOPOLY.

don’t forget the the Chairman of the TCC is David Miller’s best friend (son or successor), they’re the same kind- collecting money from our hard working people for the union guys’ wages and benefits and say they’re short of money!!!!!! what else can we expect!

Stop whinning, I don’t see people cry about the price of the iPods
and all the other gagets they bring onto the system. For there dollars that’s still a bargain.

It is time for a alternative transit. My salary did not increase how I am going pay extra fare every month? Media should raise voice against such monopoly game.

I am against the suggested monthly pass increase to $126. Why such a high increase? Why do I see 4 buses at a time show up on Bus route 25 Don Mills? Is this so we can pay for extra buses and extra drivers? Please TTC and City of Toronto, please do not approve these rate hikes. Please look into it further and check out what is going on.

LW

Waht is this it is enough this is the third time they are increse the rate what’s going man
lot of ppl using ttc and then can’t effort the cost of ttc then redused the fare and increse time limit and like every 10 tp 15 or 20 mint but don’t increse the rate.

Instead of increasing the efficiency of the system they are preying on the common people. This fare hike can’t be justified. They are lasvishly generous on employee benefits. News of one of its employees earning more than $100,000 a year is just an example.

I absolutely agree. Students in this city, and their parents for that matter, are having a hard enough time trying to budget tuition costs and transportation costs. Students and University students are on a very tight budget and this additional cost places undue burden and stress on their limited finances. The TTC apparently has a policy where all their employees get to enjoy “a free ride” into work and back home from work as long as they use the TTC. This is a very unfair situation. The public not only pays salaries…and very good salaries with over-the-top overtime…we also finance TTC employee transportation to and from work. Living in the City of Toronto has become a very expensive endeavor with all the taxation and increasing costs that have been imposed on us by council in recent years and by others who hold the balance of power. Here’s a thought…why not look to reduce some of those 100,000 salaries that the well paid, well-protected union workers earn with their generous overtime pay. It’s absolutely ridiculous that these public service workers, some of whom never even finished high school let alone university, are in a position where they can earn more than a fully educated and qualified professional with graduate degrees. We’ve all lost our sense of balance and justice in this crazy world.

No offense to anyone, its just my personal view. I don’t think that Government really care, lately Insurance Company wants to increase premium and than HST and now TTC wants our hard earned money too. This system is such bloodsucker, and they will keep sucking our blood because we are first world country. We are too educated and over qualified to speak-up or take control of the situation. Just wait and watch after few weeks or months someone else will dump price hike on us. Only thing we can do is work overtime or get a second job so we can generously feed these greedy for the rest of our life.

yes the local goverment try to make the people in toronto but if you notice 126.00 a month for metro pass is even expensive than car insurance how they try to convice comunity to used the transit sistem is more expensive than insuran

I am a senior citizen -, these heartless overpaid bastards – Miller & Giambrone – just made tens of thousands of seniors lives’ more miserable. There was NO negotiation with the Union to decrease their salaries or trying to come up with some technical solution to save some money. I hope they all end up in Living Hell

I don see the point of this fare hike? i mean common, Doesn’t everyone say to us like the mayor and the public say use public transit to not pollute the air?? I am still in high school and i think wow the buses are jammed everyday. The only time its empty is if you get from a subway station on to a bus. I just hope that people still take the bus after this fare hike, but than again who can afford a metro pass that if your in a low minimum wage job half your paycheck in 2 weeks. And no i don’t agree that the post secondary education students even get a discount because you are to tell me that they get it a dollar or two cheaper cause they have books and fees. Trying paying a life style with struggling parents for example and your older brother laid off from a trade job from a union and than lets see if that discount is going to be a big hustle

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