If you exceed your time in a parking spot in Toronto, you risk a $30 ticket. Illegally park in a commercial loading zone? That’s $40. Yet ride the TTC without paying the fare and you risk getting slapped with a fine from $235 to $425. StarEditorial
If you exceed your time in a parking spot in Toronto, you risk a $30 ticket. Illegally park in a commercial loading zone? That’s $40. Park your SUV in a bus parking zone? That could cost you $150.
Yet ride the TTC without paying the fare and you risk getting slapped with a fine that can range from $235 to $425. Even parking in a fire route or within three metres of a fire hydrant – two offences which arguably could have deadly consequences – don’t rise to the apparent high crime of trying to ride the TTC for free. The fines for these parking offences are $250 and $100 respectively.
For much of the pandemic, the issue of TTC fare enforcement and the debate whether the penalty matched the offence was largely academic. That’s because ticketing had been paused.It expects the move will pull in about $6 million, revenue the cash-strapped system says it desperately needs. Of course, we think all transit riders should pay their fares. It’s not fair, after all, if some riders are getting a free trip while the majority are paying the freight to help keep the system running.A 2019 report by the TTC estimated the fare evasion rate across its system at 5.7 per cent, costing it some $65 million in lost revenue.Let’s acknowledge too that cracking down on fare evaders is hardly going to be the system’s financial salvation. It’s got far more serious worries.
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