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Toronto and Melbourne Revisited
If what the honourable member is asking for is some sort of direct subsidy in place of the TTC reviewing its business practices and doing what they have done in other jurisdictions, for example, in Australia, where lots of places have contracted out certain routes for public transit – in one case, I forget whether it’s Adelaide or Melbourne, they actually have 52 different entities contributing to the overall mass transit system in that city, and it functions a heck of a lot better than the TTC does here in Toronto.
Ernie Eves, Premier, Ontario Legislative Assembly,
22 October 2002.1
Two Toronto Models
The Premier was right on one point: Melbourne (not Adelaide) does have dozens of fingers in its public transport ...
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