Toronto Transit Commission and Transit Improvements

CBC Forum: The Toronto Transit Commission alone has a backlog of $3 billion in repairs and maintenance, according to CBC. Is the only solution more money If so, from where And are there innovative ways to reduce costs How do we fix municipal transit in Canada Readers gave us their thoughts in today CBC Forum — a live, hosted discussion about topics of national interest. "First of all, you get the people that use it to pay for it. Big transit improvements are years away Why Canada has fallen so far behind on public transit Mayors across the country welcomed the news, but when that money is spread across the entire country it is only a pittance. Then you get rid of 50 per cent of the government managers and pay a bus driver bus-driver wages, not bank-manager wages." — 2centsmore "Stop chasing this fantasy that mass transit has to pay for itself. Even Via Rail is exorbitant. It never has, doesn't and it never will, unless you raise the fares so high that no one will take it. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.