Years of funding shortfalls have delayed much-needed repairs and forced Band-Aid fixes as well as mounting costs.
Transit advocates know all too well what can happen when crucial maintenance and upgrades to Toronto’s transit system are allowed to slip.
But years of funding shortfalls have delayed much-needed repairs and forced Band-Aid fixes, leaving the TTC with a growing mountain of future costs and no indication of who will cover them. State of good repair refers to the portion of the TTC’s spending that deals with keeping the system and its infrastructure safe and reliable. Not the flashy stuff like building new subway lines or expanding its streetcar fleet, but the day-to-day, nuts and bolts stuff, like replacing old pumps, fixing escalators and removing asbestos.
“The amount of stuff in the future that was either simply not shown, or was acknowledged but not funded, was growing and growing and growing,” Munro said. To Cameron McLeod, executive director of transit advocacy group CodeRed, it’s a sign that we’ve forgotten the lesson we learned from the Russell Hill crash — that is, to prioritize maintenance as much as expansion.
This is a critical moment for the TTC, with ridership levels still lagging more than 30 per cent below pre-pandemic levels. Depressed ridership means fares now contribute half as much to the operating budget as they did before COVID-19, creating a bigger burden for the city.
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