Nowadays, Given the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) faces a decreasing of ridership, the TTC is regarded as “Take the Car” by Canadians. Why it is becoming a serious problem? People prefer more taking car than using public transit due to the fact that the TTC does not furnish lofty quality of service in two ways; therefore, the number of passengers on the TTC is declining. According to the Blogto report, the eight leading elements for system failure led to a total of 106 hours and 37 minutes of lost time in 2012. (Bateman, Jun 14 2013) Even though their service is developed into more inconvenient, the TTC increases fares year-over-year. Last rise was $1.50 not only Adult Weekly passes, but also Downtown express stickers on 3 January 2016 (“TTC
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Many users feel burdened by purchasing ticket and using transportation owing to the fact that price of metro-pass is being hiked, as a consequence passengers are gradually decreasing. Specifically, last November, the transit commissioners not only approved increasing cost of fare starting in January, but also broke election pledge about freezing fare in 2015 (PEAT, November 23 2015). For this reason, people who cannot afford to hiked metro-pass are likely to experience constraint of physical and social mobility. (Bowerman, August 11 2015). Therefore, the population of transit users is 250.3million thus far this year; it is 7.4 million less than what the TTC was expected by this point of 2016 (“Transit Cash”, July 7 2016). Undoubtedly, they will experience budget deficit.
Obviously, problems of the system failure and hiked fare should be treated as priority factors in the diminished reputation of the TTC. For enhancing ridership, how the transit commissioner considers schemes of improvement? There are two suggested solutions toward moderating those …show more content…
In comparison with other provinces, Toronto’s per rider subsidy is $0.78 which is far lower than others — Montreal: $1.16, Vancouver: $1.62, Mississauga: $2.21, and York Region: $4.49 (Palisoc, November 13 2014). Against this background, surprisingly, the customer’s fare accounts for two- thirds of the TTC’s management budget. It is seems to the TTC depends too much on unstable incomes from individual; hence, the TTC requires subsidy from the government to keep low price for passengers. As a result, the public transit service is available without a financial burden. Nevertheless, some people state that the government of Ontario budget is not enough to handle this problem. However, Richard Soberman said “If there was money coming from the province the TTC could expand service, keep fares low, it could do a number of things to improve its operation…” (November 13 2014). For this reason, expanding subsidy should be considered as priority due to the fact that well designed public transit benefit the
Many users feel burdened by purchasing ticket and using transportation owing to the fact that price of metro-pass is being hiked, as a consequence passengers are gradually decreasing. Specifically, last November, the transit commissioners not only approved increasing cost of fare starting in January, but also broke election pledge about freezing fare in 2015 (PEAT, November 23 2015). For this reason, people who cannot afford to hiked metro-pass are likely to experience constraint of physical and social mobility. (Bowerman, August 11 2015). Therefore, the population of transit users is 250.3million thus far this year; it is 7.4 million less than what the TTC was expected by this point of 2016 (“Transit Cash”, July 7 2016). Undoubtedly, they will experience budget deficit.
Obviously, problems of the system failure and hiked fare should be treated as priority factors in the diminished reputation of the TTC. For enhancing ridership, how the transit commissioner considers schemes of improvement? There are two suggested solutions toward moderating those …show more content…
In comparison with other provinces, Toronto’s per rider subsidy is $0.78 which is far lower than others — Montreal: $1.16, Vancouver: $1.62, Mississauga: $2.21, and York Region: $4.49 (Palisoc, November 13 2014). Against this background, surprisingly, the customer’s fare accounts for two- thirds of the TTC’s management budget. It is seems to the TTC depends too much on unstable incomes from individual; hence, the TTC requires subsidy from the government to keep low price for passengers. As a result, the public transit service is available without a financial burden. Nevertheless, some people state that the government of Ontario budget is not enough to handle this problem. However, Richard Soberman said “If there was money coming from the province the TTC could expand service, keep fares low, it could do a number of things to improve its operation…” (November 13 2014). For this reason, expanding subsidy should be considered as priority due to the fact that well designed public transit benefit the