The federal government, which is targeting infrastructure repairs and improvements rather than capital projects, will deliver $500 million to the TTC as part of $1.48 billion being devoted to transit in Ontario. It’s a substantial down-payment on the $840 million the federal government has earmarked for Toronto transit. TTC chair Josh Colle acknowledged the funded projects are not glamorous but said the nuts-and-bolts transit work is needed to reduce breakdowns and delays. “This kind of work just gets neglected constantly — it’s hard to ribbon-cut for a subway pump but people get angry when we close a line or a station to deal with repairs. With a (repair) backlog so big, we just need help from other levels of government.

Source: thestar August 23, 2016 09:56 UTC