RedRocket191
Senior Member
Providing an acceptable quality of service, not cost recovery, should be the objective of a public transit agency. The Spadina streetcar is an improvement over the bus because it transports 19,000 additional people per day, even if it sacrifices a profit to do so.
I personally think that the province should take over the TTC and integrate it with the region. My only objection would be the aforementioned accountability to local transit needs but, really, the TTC is not exactly visionary when it comes to addressing local needs, anyway.
Fully agree, as long as local planners can still respond quickly to local concerns. In Metro Vancouver, for example, Translink manages the bus routes, but the local government decides where to put the stops.