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Transit City

The Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) is a legally incorporated non-profit organization. The group undertakes a variety of projects and programs in six major campaign areas: smog and climate change, urban pesticides, waste reduction, sustainable transportation, water, and youth. TEA focuses on what Toronto can do to protect and improve its environment, encouraging leadership on these issues by municipal governments.

What are they doing?

TEA's Transit City proposal focuses on engaging the public through collaboration with residents in neighbourhoods that currently have unreliable or inadequate transit service. The collaboration is to encourage discussions on how to design a local transit growth plan that will support specific transit initiatives that lead to a Transit City.

For Toronto, a Transit City means improved service on existing routes to reduce crowding and a increase in the reliability of service; prioritization of road space for surface transit, such as street car right-of-ways and street light priority turning for buses; reduce fares to ensure transit passes are cost competitive for individuals and families; and, new East-West routes above St. Claire Avenue (as outlined in Toronto's Official Plan) and extensions of North-South service to Etobicoke and Scarborough. A Transit City must also be affordable to build. Toronto needs to make decisions that ensure that each dollar spent maximizes the number of new riders on the TTC and increases the number of trips each rider takes.

TEA believes that implementing a Transit City vision will generate up to 70 million new transit rides in Toronto and will create a sustainable transportation system that is financially prudent, helps to reduce smog and relieve congestion, and is affordable to all residents.

Project Objectives (short-term):

• Educate the public on the vision of a Transit City by developing and distributing information pieces (Smog City or Transit City brochure and Citizen's Guide to a Light Rail System) through membership, coalition, meetings with decision-makers and the media;
• Provide practical examples of a Transit City by engaging 5-8 neighbourhoods in improving transit in their area with the support of tools such as Transit in Your Neighbourhood;
• Measure the City's success in implementing its Ridership Growth Strategy and Building a Transit City commitments in TEA's 2006 Smog Report Card.

Where can you find more information?

Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) Website

Date modified:

2010-02-03

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