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Youth Speak Up 2018 Transit Selina Hsu Public Transit Approximately 70% of the Toronto Transit Agency (TTC) budget is paid for by passenger fares, while the remaining 30% is covered by the municipal government. They are currently seeking a $37.6 million increase in funding for 2018, up 5.5% from the 2017 operating budget. If approved, TTC and Wheel-Trans would be receiving a subsidy from the City of Toronto of $727.1 million. The additional money will not be spent addressing issues on existing routes; instead, it will be needed to meet the demands of opening the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension on Line 1, the rollout of the Presto fare card system, and various other expenses. However, the budget proposal would call for a fare freeze in 2018 after prices have continuously been increasing for the past six years. The TTC also does not predict a significant increase in ridership; while 536 million trips were expected in 2017, the figure rises only to about 539 million in 2018. Case Study: The Scarborough RT Expansion The Scarborough RT (Line 3 Scarborough) currently spans six stations and mostly travels on track elevated above street level. Before the subway network reached into the east end, Scarborough politicians wanted to extend the subway further than Kennedy station to Scarborough Town Centre after it opened in 1973. However, the aspiring downtown area was instead connected with medium-capacity, fully automated S-series trains. Unlike the rest of the TTC’s subway system, the RT runs off the Intermediate Capacity Transit System (ICTS) There are a number of reasons that the extension was not built as a subway. At the time, the TTC was interested in a cheaper project after extending the subway a single station from Warden to Kennedy cost over $41 million to build. The provincial government also agreed to contribute to a large part of the cost of ICTS. The line has not been updated since its opening in 1985. A plan within city council to extend the Bloor-Danforth line would change that and integrate Scarborough into the underground track system. The project would be a “one-stop subway”, extending the subway to a single station and closing the RT. 1 Youth Speak Up 2018 Transit Selina Hsu Activity (Public Transit: extensions and addition proposals) Split the room into groups and get each group to present a possible addition or extension and argue whether it is worth or not. Examples: Don Mill-Downtown Eglinton LRT/Subway Finch West LRT Scarborough RT revitalization/replacement (extension of Line 2 Bloor-Danforth) Sheppard East LRT Sheppard Subway (Yonge to Sheppard West) Further Reading Bow, James. “Transit Toronto.” The Scarborough Rapid Transit Line - Transit Toronto - Content, Transit Toronto, 17 Oct. 2017, https://transit.toronto.on.ca/subway/5107.shtml Various Authors. “Line 3 Scarborough.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 31 Jan. 2018, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_3_Scarborough. 2 .

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