Weathering a downpour is not the only thing students may have to deal with if there is a hike in TTC fares. Photo by Kyle Gennings
KYLE GENNINGS
NEWS REPORTER
Students are waiting to hear if they will have to drop extra coin into the TTC fare box.
“There’s been no decision made as of yet,” said Kevin Beaulieu, executive assistant to TTC commisioner Adam Giambrone.
Beaulieu said it is too early to tell if there will be a hike. The decision will be made after budget talks with the City of Toronto.
First-year theatre production student Joey Culham takes the bus to school and spends $96 a month on a Metropass.
“It was expensive to buy tokens every day, but I worked it out and I think I save around $30 with the Metropass,” said Culham.
Those Metropass savings has been blamed by its own officials as the cause of the TTC’s current funding shortfall, but longtime rail activist Steve Munro disagrees.
Munro places the blame on the TTC’s flawed funding formula.
“Of the $80 million that it will take to run the TTC next year, $24 million will come from the city,” said Munro. The remaining $56 million will have to come from the fare box, Munro said.