{"id":10753,"date":"2018-03-13T09:56:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=10753"},"modified":"2018-03-13T09:56:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:56:29","slug":"ttc-internal-report-on-fare-evasion-raises-red-flags-over-lost-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/local\/gta\/ttc-internal-report-on-fare-evasion-raises-red-flags-over-lost-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"TTC internal report on fare evasion raises red flags over lost revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TTC\u2019s ability to enforce proper fare payment is \u201cpoor,\u201d according to an internal report drafted by the transit agency, and the organization now says a policy designed to address the problem is on hold.<\/p>\n<p>A TTC position paper that was among a set of previously unpublished documents obtained by the Star warns \u201cTTC revenue control has been increasingly constrained as a result of broad, successive changes to policy over the last three years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese changes were approved over time to provide easier travel for passengers yet were cumulative which resulted in poor revenue control,\u201d says the paper, which is marked \u201cconfidential draft\u201d and dated Feb. 9, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The documents outline numerous policies and logistical problems that they say have hampered the TTC\u2019s ability to ensure customers don\u2019t cheat the system. Fare evasion costs the agency tens of millions of dollars a year.<\/p>\n<p>The challenges include the introduction in 2015 of new rules that allow children 12 and under to ride free. The program was backed by Mayor John Tory and has proved popular, but the paper states it has \u201cintroduced a significant risk for the TTC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The implementation of all-door boarding on the streetcar network later that year \u201cfurther compounded the lack of revenue control,\u201d the paper says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TTC\u2019s ability to enforce proper fare payment is \u201cpoor,\u201d according to an internal report drafted by the transit agency, and the organization now says a policy designed to address &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3538],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/TTC-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}