Miller Uses TTC Public Address System To Fight For Funding
Posted April 16, 2010 2:24 pm.
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For the next few days – along with the garbled service announcements and warnings not to charge subway doors – TTC riders will hear the voice of the city’s mayor over the public address system urging them to join the fight for funding of public transit.
In the 30 second announcements, which began broadcasting Thursday and will run every 12 minutes until Sunday, Mayor David Miller says the city’s rapid transit initiative is in jeopardy now that the province has put billions of dollars in funding on hold.
“In 2007, the provincial government announced full funding for Transit City and in 2009 announced funding for the first four lines. In the 2010 provincial budget, Premier McGuinty cut $4 billion from that funding,” Miller says in his message.
“Unless the $4 billion cut is reversed, all work could stop.”
Last month, Finance Minister Dwight Duncan cut $9.4 billion in transit funding from the provincial budget to deal with a record $21.3 billion deficit.
The move will likely delay the Eglinton rapid transit line that would stretch from Kennedy station to Pearson Airport, the Finch line from Yonge Street to Humber College, Sheppard Avenue East, the Scarborough RT and Viva expansion in York Region.
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Hear Mayor Miller’s message below:
