This Wednesday April 29, the TTC Commission will vote to move forward on lowering senior fares to $1 during off peak hours. 

The motion by Councillor Crisanti asks the TTC CEO to assess the feasibility of doing a six month pilot to let seniors ride for a $1 during off peak hours.  (The City loves to study stuff first.) 

Many seniors live on fixed incomes, and struggle to make ends meet. Also, lower fares encourages people to take the TTC, which is good for the environment and congestion. 

While moving forward with lowering fares for seniors during off peak hours is a great step forward, we are also calling on the city to make sure the TTC is affordable for all, especially those in financial need. 

That is why we are calling on the city to move forward with lowering fares for seniors and pass this motion, and move forward with prioritizing with the following requests:

- offer $1 fares to people earning less than $22,000. Torontonians who live below $22,000 are below the Low Income Cut Off rate, and are very likely to be struggling to make ends meet.


- allow people receiving Ontario Disability and Ontario Works payments to ride the TTC for free. This is because people living on these small payments simply cannot afford to meet their basic needs, like paying for food, medicine, and housing.


- allow all riders who get discount fares to travel during peak and off peak times. This is because riders often have to travel during peak hours to go work, pick up children, go to medical appointments and more.

- don't cut service to pay for affordable fares. Instead, bring in new money.

Everyone should have the right to travel our city.  Let's make the TTC affordable and useful for all us.