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Calendar: Buses resume regular routes at Keele / St. Clair?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:41:38 -0500

TTC scheduled buses to end their detours around the construction at 7 a.m. today.

Calendar: Buses detour during Royal Winter Fair

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:38:30 -0500

The TTC is detouring buses through Exhibition Place during this year’s Royal Winter Fair.

Calendar: Bernard Terminal re-opens

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:36:47 -0500

YRT buses resume dropping off and picking up passengers in the terminal.

Calendar: Buy a poppy for Remembrance Day at TTC and GO stations today

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:25:04 -0500

Honour the men and women who served and are serving our country. Volunteers are selling poppies at stations from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. today.

TTC further limits the number of tokens you can buy

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:48:41 -0500

So many people are wanting to buy transit tokens before fares increase in the New Year, that the TTC is now limiting passengers to buying just five at a time.

This reduces the 10-token limit that the TTC only announced on Friday. You can still buy five tokens from all collector booths in rapid transit stations and just one from token vending machines at automatic entrances where no collector is on duty. If a collector runs out of tokens, the fare will be $2.75 cash.

At its meeting on Tuesday, November 17, the Toronto Transit Commission will consider a staff report recommending that fares increase on Sunday, January 3.

TTC limits the number of tokens you can buy

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:26:08 -0500

Last week, the TTC started limiting the number of fare tokens that you can buy. Now you can only buy ten tokens at a time at collector booths in rapid transit stations and one at a time at token vending machines at automatic entrances where no collector is on duty.

GO buses detour in Malton today

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:13:36 -0500

Today, Sunday, November 8 until 6 p.m., GO Transit is detouring buses operating along Airport Road between Steeles Avenue East and Slough Street during a construction project.

TTC to raise fares in 2010?

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:54:00 -0500

TTC staff have proposed increasing fares in 2010 as part of the TTC’s operating budget. If the Toronto Transit Commission approve the staff recommendations, the TTC will raise fares on Sunday, January 3, 2010. The TTC last raised fares in 2007.

The TTC’s proposed 2010 operating budget is $1.4 billion. The TTC derives about 70 percent of its revenue from fares.The City of Toronto and revenue that the TTC generates from advertising commuter parking and other sources subsidize the balance of its operating dollars.

Staff propose increasing adult fares by 25 cents while tokens cost $2.50 each. Student and senior fares increase by 15 cents and children’s fares increase by 5 cents.

The TTC is also proposing to raise the cost of its passes. The TTC bases the price of a Metropass on the number of trips that passholders use each month. TTC staff is recommending increasing that trip rate from its current 48 to 50 trips.

If the Commission approves the proposed fare increase, the TTC will generate $62 million more in revenue in 2010. It will be able to preserve service levels for 2010 and maintain them at 2009 levels.

Veterans ride for free on Remembrance Day

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:14:24 -0500

Many transit agencies in the Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton will honour the sacrifice of the veterans of Canada’s wars by offering vets and their travelling companions free rides on Remembrance Day, Tuesday, November 11.

Transit vehicles "stop and stay" on Remembrance Day

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:02:18 -0500

The drivers of Toronto Transit Commission, Durham Region Transit, Mississauga Transit, York Region Transit and other Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton transit vehicles pause their buses, streetcars and trains at 11 a.m. on Remembrance Day, Wednesday, November 11.

Buses detour during St. Clair / Keele construction, November 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:52:36 -0500

This weekend, TTC and the City of Toronto contractors will rehabilitate the sidewalks and curbs along both sides of St. Clair Avenue West at Keele Street.

The City is the intersection completely to through north- and southbound traffic. The road is closed to through southbound traffic at Weston and Gunns Roads traffic and to through northbound traffic at Keele and West Toronto Streets, so the TTC must detour buses.

The City previously closed the intersection for construction from October 3 to 5.

Bathurst streetcars resume regular route, November 6

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:40:33 -0500

TTC streetcars operating along the 511 Bathurst service resume their regular service south of King Street West.

The cars have been detouring around a TTC and City of Toronto project to repair the streetcar tracks on Bathurst between Front Street West and Fleet Street since Monday, October 19.

Buses operating along the 310 Bathurst overnight route resumed regular service on Sunday, November 1.

Presumably, buses operating along the 145 Downtown / Humber Bay express route also resume regular service tomorrow.

TTC detours buses during Royal Winter Fair, November 3 to November 16

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:58:10 -0500

The TTC is detouring buses through Exhibition Place during this year’s Royal Winter Fair.

Film shoot disrupts bus service in downtown Toronto, November 7 and 8

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:47:13 -0500

The TTC is detouring buses operating along the 6 Bay route during a film shoot at Bay Street and Adelaide Street West again this weekend. (It previously detoured buses for the same shoot last weekend, Saturday, October 31 and Sunday, November 1.)

Bernard Terminal in Richmond Hill closed this weekend

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:30:42 -0500

A construction project at Bernard Avenue Terminal in Richmond Hill is banishing York Region Transit buses to the street this weekend.