“This can’t continue,” Marvin Alfred, president of ATU Local 113, told the Toronto Sun. \u0022This needs to be addressed immediately.\u0022
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But as he works on a meeting with TTC boss Rick Leary and Mayor John Tory, top of his mind is to reach out to the latest victims of the madness that has become Toronto’s transit world. Two employees were swarmed Monday by a gang of youths on at the“Two of our members were violently assaulted by a group of teenage males,” said Alfred. “Transit workers should not have to go to work in fear of their lives.”“Us front-line employees are scared beyond belief,” one TTC employee told the Sun.
But there are a lot of problems to fix to make it stop. Toronto’s buses, trains, streetcars and the indoor stations that service them have become the homeless shelters of 2023. When you have the problem of homelessness, drug dependency and mental illness being forced onto the transit system to deal with the overflow, it’s no surprise there are serious dangers that go with it.“This continued pattern of criminal behaviour cannot and will not be tolerated.
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