Ottawa and Queen’s Park have helped Toronto buy more transit vehicles, but without the money needed to run them. Why hundreds of TTC buses sit idle at rush hour despite millions in government funding. Opinion by GraphicMatt
, 551 buses are not being used in active service during peak periods. There are also 81 streetcars and 40 subway trains that aren’t part of service at the busiest time of day. Collectively, these vehicles are just sitting empty in storage yards, waiting to fulfil their transit destiny, like a very sad episode of “Shining Time Station” where Thomas the Tank Engine and friends learn about existential angst.
The spare ratio is calculated as a percentage of the number of spare vehicles divided by the number of vehicles in service during the busiest times. So, for example, a ratio of 20 per cent would mean an agency has 20 spare buses for every 100 buses in service during the rush hour period. which has generally required more vehicles to be kept out of service so the TTC can conduct extra “preventative maintenance.But newfangled technology aside, in response to the current budget crisis and sagging post-pandemic ridership, the TTC is overshooting both its old and new target across all its vehicle types. For April, the bus spare ratio is 35 per cent, the streetcar spare ratio is 66 per cent, and the subway train ratio is 27 per cent on Line 1 and 53 per cent on Line 2.
documents obtained via a freedom-of-information request by the advocacy group TTC Riders suggest they’ll see some significant reductions
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