The $2.24-billion operating budgets for both conventional and Wheel-Trans services will fund restoration of service to 100% of pre-pandemic levels on the conventional network with some room for new and enhanced TTC programs.
As of earlier this week, 91% of unionized and 95% of non-unionized employees have shared their status, with the vast majority already fully vaccinated.
The new round of testing seeks to confirm those results from the first phase in Vancouver by evaluating copper surfaces on more transit vehicles over a longer duration of time across two different regions.
The Subway Air Quality Initiative was carried out between 2018 and 2020 and concluded that new trains and updated braking technologies and protocols that reduce friction contributed to reduced levels of fine particulate matter inside vehicles and on platforms.
Stantec and Jacobs will oversee an estimated $28.5 billion in capital investment in the city’s transit infrastructure.
Daily ridership is now at 50% of TTC’s pre-pandemic levels and customer trips are more evenly spread throughout the day.
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an 80% drop in ridership and a loss of $90 million in monthly revenue
The report, to be considered by the TTC board, recommends funding for the plan would come from Toronto's City Building Fund.
Service enhancements include hiring 121 operators to increase service on 25 surface routes across the city.
In October 2017, Tom Dedes was injured when he was pinned against a truck by the tail swing of a workcar at a TTC rail yard.
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