Toronto transit riders have a right to feel safe
I travel around Toronto by public transit not because I’m an eco-friendly saint, but because it’s what I can comfortably afford and what I know. I grew up in Manhattan, without a car, and only got a licence at 29. But I also seeabout car accidents and believe it’s safer to avoid those. I regularly bring my one- and four-year-olds on transit-requiring outings around the city.
What we’re looking at is not a city that is too gentle towards the most destitute. Hardly. Rather, we’re witnessing the messy class politics of transit ridership in Toronto. There are a few moving parts here, all of which are necessary to keep in one’s mind at the same time if one is to make sense of this mess.
What this means is that there is a big swath of Toronto for whom the goings-on on subway platforms or in packed buses are, at most, an abstract concern, or at least not a regular occurrence. The well-meaning people putting up anti-policing yard signs are, often but not always, the ones hopping into a car. Their commitment to the eco lifestyle extends to patronizing farmer’s markets, not to slumming it on the streetcar.. As well it should be.
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