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TORONTO — The TTC will move forward with random drug and alcohol testing for its employees, suggesting that intoxicated employees continue to be a problem.

TTC CEO Andy Byford wrote in a letter to employees that management will be also be asking the Ontario government to consider making random testing mandatory for public transit agencies, like it is in the U.S.

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Since 2010, TTC employees have undergone drug tests whenever there has been reasonable cause to believe they’re impaired on the job, after being involved in a collision and after being treated for substance abuse. Byford wrote in his letter that “there have been continued instances of impairment while at work.”

TTC spokesperson Brad Ross said 15 employees had positive drug and alcohol tests in 2014. That number rose to 57 in 2015. In the first three months of 2016, there were 28 failed tests, he said. Ross earlier said the numbers were for on-duty employees only, but corrected the statement later on to say the numbers include off-duty DUIs as well. They also include those who refused testing.