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WATCH ABOVE: Josh Colle announces improvements to TTC service in GTA

TORONTO — Mayor John Tory and TTC Chair Josh Colle announced service improvements to 33 of the city’s busiest bus and streetcar routes during off-peak hours this fall.

The increased service will start in September and is made possible by the $95 million investment in transit in the 2015 Budget.

It comes after similar investments in TTC projects such as expanded overnight service and the 10 minute or better service network announced earlier this year.

The announcement was made on Monday at the south bus platform at the TTC’s Finch Station, where Colle said the improvements would be “outside of the traditional rush hour times,” which is where TTC ridership continues to grow the fastest.

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“These routes have specifically been identified as those which would benefit most from reduced crowding and wait times, as they’re among the busier off-peak hours on our network,” he said.

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“55 million customer trips each year will benefit from these service improvements and it’s estimated that this will attract almost 2 million new customer trips to the TTC every year.”

Tory said the improvements were “absolutely necessary for the social and economic well being of our city,” and called the investment long overdue.

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“These service improvements are a reversal of the off-peak service cuts that were made under the previous administration,” said Tory, adding that the cuts had impacted service and ridership.

“I think this was an incorrect decision that we’re now seeking to correct because if transit connects people to opportunity than you can’t be cutting back on transit at a time when you need to have people have access to a job.”

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Tory said he was elected to address a “traffic and transit nightmare” and that improvements to transit were a direct part of the city’s poverty reduction strategy.

The announcement follows improvements to 61 bus routes on overnight and all day service across the city, which were announced earlier this year.

The TTC said in a release that the improvements to the 26 bus and seven streetcar routes across the city will provide a “noticeable improvement in service quality,” which would lead to “shorter wait times, less crowding and a better chance for customers to get a seat.”

A report outlining the improvements titled “Improvements to Off-Peak Services – More Frequent and Less-Crowded” will be presented to the TTC Board at its meeting on July 29.

The service improvements will be implemented on the following routes:

7 Bathurst 22 Coxwell 24 Victoria Park 25 Don Mills 34 Eglinton East 35 Jane 36 Finch West 38 Highland Creek 39 Finch East 42 Cummer 44 Kipling South 52 Lawrence West 53 Steeles East 54 Lawrence East 60 Steeles West 63 Ossington 84 Sheppard West 89 Weston 95 York Mills 100 Flemingdon Park 106 York University 133 Neilson 191 Highway 27 Rocket 192 Airport Rocket 198 U of T Scarborough Rocket 199 Finch Rocket 501 Queen 504 King 505 Dundas 506 Carlton 509 Harbourfront 511 Bathurst 512 St Clair