Note the jingle lyrics about the TTC being "Nice and clean", "trouble free", and an "easy ride". This is how it was when the TTC was adequately funded by all three levels of government. Premier Mike Harris decided to forcibly amalgamate the boroughs of Metro Toronto into one megacity and downloaded many responsibilities and expenses onto it, stopped funding social housing and eliminated rent controls, and cut provincial funding of the TTC to almost nothing while continuing to take a big share of revenues. Successive governments failed to restore TTC funding to pre-Harrisite levels, and killed transit expansion projects that were already in progress. This is why we have a crisis in housing, a crisis in infrastructure (including crumbling schools and roads), and a grossly inadequate, crumbling transit system that's decades behind in terms of routes, technology, cleanliness, service, and safety.
I know I don't have to say this because everyone is already thinking it, but fuck harris, the effects of his garbage leadership are still being effected by my generation and will continue to be effected by every generation below us. That guy really messed up this province.
@@sebastianjames7423 Tbh, I doubt Ontarionians had much of a choice. As much as I hate Harris, I honestly expect many of the cuts he did would've been done by the other parties. For a reminder of what the NDP did before the conservatives got into power, they cut both the Sheppard and Eglinton West Lines to 5 stop stubs that went absolutely nowhere, cut back all day GO Train service on the lakeshore lines from Burlington to Oakville in the west, and Whitby to Pickering in the east, and were responsible for cutting all GO train service to Barrie, Acton, and Guelph, and this is the NDP we're talking about. If the liberals were put to power in 1995, I doubt it would've been much prettier. There are a lot of things that Harris did that are ridiculous and inexcusable. Selling off the 407 and downloading many segments of the Provincial Highway Network to name a few, but I honestly doubt that in a world without Harris that our generation would be much better off.
@@Absolute_Zero7 aside from transit him forcibly amalgamating everything caused a lot of problems and it really begs the question does the city have to be run like this.
@@mikeking245 Amalgamation is a meh point. While it did hurt in a lot of places - the stalled growth of North York Centre being one of them, it did make more sense long term. Toronto is rapidly growing, and having these petty borders divide the region doesn't really make much sense. While the transition was painful, long term it will lead to a better city.
When we moved into our house in Toronto in 1978, in the attic we found an old TTC cap. Like a police officer cap except said TTC. The bus drivers used to actually wear them sometimes back then.
I remember as a young lad, moving to The Big Smoke in the early 80's and getting my first MetroPass. That, along with CFNY, made me feel like I had made the Big Times.
I don't mean to be negative about it but if I were in their shoes, 35 years ago, I would be impressed the city has grown that far north but disappointed more hadn't been done in the more dense areas of the city. The relief line coming to mind.
Even the Commercials had more life back in the 80's
not really.
Note the jingle lyrics about the TTC being "Nice and clean", "trouble free", and an "easy ride". This is how it was when the TTC was adequately funded by all three levels of government.
Premier Mike Harris decided to forcibly amalgamate the boroughs of Metro Toronto into one megacity and downloaded many responsibilities and expenses onto it, stopped funding social housing and eliminated rent controls, and cut provincial funding of the TTC to almost nothing while continuing to take a big share of revenues.
Successive governments failed to restore TTC funding to pre-Harrisite levels, and killed transit expansion projects that were already in progress.
This is why we have a crisis in housing, a crisis in infrastructure (including crumbling schools and roads), and a grossly inadequate, crumbling transit system that's decades behind in terms of routes, technology, cleanliness, service, and safety.
I know I don't have to say this because everyone is already thinking it, but fuck harris, the effects of his garbage leadership are still being effected by my generation and will continue to be effected by every generation below us. That guy really messed up this province.
@@sebastianjames7423 Tbh, I doubt Ontarionians had much of a choice. As much as I hate Harris, I honestly expect many of the cuts he did would've been done by the other parties. For a reminder of what the NDP did before the conservatives got into power, they cut both the Sheppard and Eglinton West Lines to 5 stop stubs that went absolutely nowhere, cut back all day GO Train service on the lakeshore lines from Burlington to Oakville in the west, and Whitby to Pickering in the east, and were responsible for cutting all GO train service to Barrie, Acton, and Guelph, and this is the NDP we're talking about. If the liberals were put to power in 1995, I doubt it would've been much prettier. There are a lot of things that Harris did that are ridiculous and inexcusable. Selling off the 407 and downloading many segments of the Provincial Highway Network to name a few, but I honestly doubt that in a world without Harris that our generation would be much better off.
@@Absolute_Zero7 aside from transit him forcibly amalgamating everything caused a lot of problems and it really begs the question does the city have to be run like this.
@@mikeking245 Amalgamation of Toronto made sense as Metro was one big city anyways and people saw it as such
@@mikeking245 Amalgamation is a meh point. While it did hurt in a lot of places - the stalled growth of North York Centre being one of them, it did make more sense long term. Toronto is rapidly growing, and having these petty borders divide the region doesn't really make much sense. While the transition was painful, long term it will lead to a better city.
When we moved into our house in Toronto in 1978, in the attic we found an old TTC cap. Like a police officer cap except said TTC. The bus drivers used to actually wear them sometimes back then.
Some still do, especially the supervisors.
I remember as a young lad, moving to The Big Smoke in the early 80's and getting my first MetroPass. That, along with CFNY, made me feel like I had made the Big Times.
I wonder what people in 1985 would think if you told them that in about 35 years, you can travel north to 7 more subway stations from Wilson Station
I don't mean to be negative about it but if I were in their shoes, 35 years ago, I would be impressed the city has grown that far north but disappointed more hadn't been done in the more dense areas of the city. The relief line coming to mind.
@@kevinblack16 didn’t do anything until they had to
00:39 Wow. Lionel from the Jeffersons doing TTC commercials.
The driver still will let you in without showing or paying anything. It’s the TTC way
You mean that's not just a donation box?
Drivers don't fight/arrest peo, the cops and inspectors do
I would say “She’s right, you know!” along with Ben Wicks whenever this ad would come on. (Remember reading his daily comics in The Globe and Mail)
VIC CUMMINGS OMG blast from the past... I remember him calling Eric Braeden (Victor Newman) "Old Craterface"
1:49 Cinesphere at Ontario Place
When the TTC was cool. Now it's a hot mess.