UTTRI Director Professor Eric J. Miller speaks out on public transit in Toronto during the pandemic and beyond in a recent The Toronto Star (Online) article exploring a variety of ways to improve the City of Toronto by 2030.
Miller highlights the benefits of improvements to surface transit in Toronto, which he says are needed now and could be implemented relatively quickly compared to subway and LRT projects.
“One thing the pandemic has shown us is how dependent we are on our surface transit, particularly the buses, particularly in our suburban neighbourhoods,” Miller said. “I would hope we’ve learned some lessons from this and that we actually do invest in these things.”
COVID–19 shone a spotlight on this inequity, Miller says, as it did the critical importance of the bus-bound workforce.
Read “What kind of city will Toronto be in 2030? Mayor John Tory hopes lessons from the COVID-19 crisis will lead to a bold leap forward,” by Joseph Hall, The Toronto Star (Online), January 11, 2021 [paywall].