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Old Posted Nov 12, 2019, 2:35 PM
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TTC fair discount program offers proof that cheaper transit can transform lives

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...orm-lives.html

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- Toronto City Hall has discovered a ridiculously effective program that helps people get access to employment, education and health care. The program didn’t require hiring hundreds of bureaucrats or the creation of some pricey new government department. It’s actually kind of absurd how simple it is.
Are you ready? Here’s what the city did: they made transit cheaper.

- In April 2018, Toronto introduced a Fair Pass program that gives people with low incomes access to discounts on TTC fares. The first phase of the program was available to anyone receiving payments from Ontario Works or the Ontario Disability Support Program. — Where your average TTC rider using Presto currently pays $3.10 for a single ride or $151.15 for an unlimited-use monthly pass, Fair Pass holders pay $2.05 and $119.40, respectively.

- Before they received the cheaper fares, just 55 per cent of people eligible for the program who were surveyed said they were able to take transit as much as they’d like. After getting and using the discounts, that number jumped to 90 per cent. — And the transit trips they’re able to make now are important ones. The number of survey respondents indicating they can work or volunteer as much as they’d like leapt from 36 per cent to 72 per cent after the pass launched.

- Ditto for people accessing education, training or job interviews, where the number went from 35 per cent to 73 per cent, while people who said they can access their medical appointments went from 50 per cent to 84 per cent. Access to stuff like grocery shopping, visits to family, and children’s activities also increased big time.

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