Transit operating budgets must be like that. It’s TTC budget season, that time of year when the big brains at City Hall get to puzzle out the great mysteries of providing transit service. In an appendix to the budget report, there’s a chart. Instead, we hear a call to cut the operating budget further in the hunt for efficiencies to keep property taxes low. It’s not all that complicated: the crowded vehicles, high fares, sometimes unreliable service and constant budget crunch are all symptoms of a longstanding underfunding of the transit system.

Source: thestar November 22, 2016 12:55 UTC