Toronto Mayor Rob Ford should halt the latest round of TTC cuts until after the Oct. 6 election, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said Monday.

Depending on who wins, there could be a “new partnership” between the Ontario and Toronto governments, she told reporters at the Ossington subway station.

“I know you and council are contemplating yet another round of service cuts and fare hikes at the TTC,” she wrote in a letter to the right-leaning Ford.

“Toronto’s public transit system is too important to the millions of riders to allow service cuts and fare hikes to go through without full consideration of alternatives and options.”

New Democrats have promised to match municipal transit operating subsidies if transit systems freeze fares for four years.

“It’s a financial burden that could use some relief,” Horwath added, noting her promise would cost about $375 million a year — with $225 million of that going to the TTC.

She promised the funding would flow “immediately” if the New Democrats are elected.

“I urge you to wait and see if a new premier can help find a solution that puts everyday people in Toronto first after Oct. 6,” she added in the letter.

Liberal MPP Kathleen Wynne, who most recently served as transportation minister, took issue with Horwath’s promise of immediate funding if elected.

“You have to wait for the provincial budget to flow money like this,” Wynne said in an interview, noting provincial budgets typically aren’t introduced until the spring. “There’s no way this could be an immediate decision she could make unilaterally.”

Horwath led reporters to Ossington on two trains from the Queen’s Park station — waiting 8 minutes for a northbound subway, more than double the target for waits during rush hour, prompting some in the entourage to joke that subway service had already been cut.

After the TTC stop, Horwath flew to Ottawa to meet with federal New Democrat MPs on their first day back in Parliament following the death of former leader Jack Layton from cancer.

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