TTC the Most Expensive in North America

The TTC gets 67 per cent of its funds from its record-high fares.

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), which just approved a 10 cent fair hike, now costs more to ride than public transit in every other North American city. Monthly passes in Toronto are far more expensive than passes in New York, Miami, Atlanta, and everywhere else on the continent. The same is true of senior's tokens and discounted multi-fare trips. The only metric the TTC does not fail is the single adult base fare, ($3.00 in cash or $2.60 in tokens), where Toronto is slightly less expensive than pack-leader Ottawa. It’s probably no surprise, then, that the TTC (also known as “the bastion of efficiency”) relies more on funding from fares than any other system in North America.