More on the TTC

[bcholmes]

From Wikipedia:

Until the mid-1990s, the TTC received operational subsides from both the municipal level of government, and the provincial level. When the Harris Conservatives in Ontario ended those subsidies, the TTC was forced to cut-back service, with a significant curtailment put into effect on February 18, 1996 and an increased financial burden was placed on the Municipal government. Since then, the TTC has consistently been in financial difficulties. [...] As a result, the TTC became the largest transit operator in Anglo-America not to receive provincial/state funding (the largest transit operator in the United States not to have this type of funding is the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA))

Dear Dalton,

If you make the legislature vote to force the TTC back to work, I'm gonna want you to explain how you keep avoiding proper funding.

Also:

Dear Mike Harris,

Even your legacy sucks.

Comments

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

Man, everything evil in Ontario goes back to Harris, doesn't it? I mean, I knew that already, but I keep hearing about more.

I believe he's also the reason why my aforementioned temp and contract workers have zilch in the way of protection from employers.

[kat-chan.livejournal.com]

Harris's "ghost" is still haunting TO all these years on. I know that when I first drove up to TO in 1999, I'd seen road construction signs with Premier Harris's name on them, and I wanted to spit on the signs. The mess that was the construction zone where the QEW turned east coming off the Hamilton/Burlington skyway...yeah, that had me cursing Mike Harris regularly.

The fact that the Liberals have been Conservative-Light is saddening, but not all together surprising.