- Canadian Urban Transit Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Cities Need More Public Transit, Not More Uber and Self-Driving Cars
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
In the near future, it is likely that cities will come under intense pressure to sacrifice public transportation in favor of new, private, car-dependent alternatives, even at a time when city planners are suggesting reducing or even eliminating car use in cities.The article looks into the benefits of the new technologies, as well as benefits of public transit.
- Connexions Library: Community & Urban Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on community and urban issues.
- Connexions Library: Transportation Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on transportation.
- Free and Accessible Transit Now
Toward a Red-Green Vision for Toronto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The free transit model makes public transit a right of all people, which would dramatically increase its use. While serving he vast majority of Torontonians and strengthening the public sector's role in meeting their needs, it would also address the special mobility requirements of the last mobile and most public-transit-dependent.
- Free transit
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
A pamphlet which gathers together a number of essays on the struggle for public transit. It emerges especially out of the urban context of Toronto. But the essays speak also to the wider crisis of public transit in North America, and the importance of this demand to an eco-socialist vision of feasible futures.
- How it all adds up
$4 billion more flows out than comes back in - and that has to change if the city is to stay healthy, critics say
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
A discussion of Toronto's position within the Canadian economy, and an argument that given its' status as 'economic powerhouse' for the country, that perhaps some additional re-investment into the city is warranted.
- How We Changed Toronto
The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.
- More than one way to strike
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
Rather than simply walk away from their vehicles, drivers could keep driving, but refuse to collect fares. This puts pressure on the employer without inconveniencing riders.
- A New City Agenda
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
While Canadians have quickly recognized the importance of healthy cities in their own lives and communities, governments have lagged far behind. In A New City Agenda, journalist and former mayor, John Sewell answers the question: What would a new deal for cities look like? He articulates a new vision for Canada’s largest urban regions and the implementation of required changes in social services, public education, settlement, health, housing, policing, land use and governance.
- No Fares!
Time for a free ride on public transit
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
This series of articles in The Tyee takes a hard look at fare hikes and spending priorities by B.C.'s transit planners, as well as rising greenhouse emissions and pollution by the private automobile, and asks: Why are we creating barriers for people who might take public transit?
- Organizing Around Transit: At the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
For the older big cities in North America, public transit is critical to their daily functioning. Organizing among workers and riders on public transit has a strategic importance.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016
Depression and Joy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other. Certainly there are individual circumstances and individual causes, but when millions of people are experiencing the same thing, we need to be looking not only at the individual, but also at the society.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017
Public Transit
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many of these struggles is the idea that transit should be free, that is, paid for not by fares, but out of general revenues. This is how roads are normally funded: their construction and maintenance are paid for by taxes, rarely by user fees. Free public transit by itself would not be enough, however. We also need good transit, transit that runs frequently and goes where people want to go.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2018
This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
- Public Transit
Introduction to the March 18, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Public transit -- good affordable public transit -- is key to a liveable city.
- A Race Struggle, a Class Struggle, A Women's Struggle All at Once
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
In Los Angeles, the Labor/Community Strategy Center is carrying out a difficult Left experiment in the age of the omnipresent Right. The center is an explicitly anti-racist, anti-corporate, and anti-imperialist think-tank focusing on 'theory-driven practice'—the generation of mass campaigns of the working class and oppressed nationalities, in particular the black and Latino workers and communities. These campaigns are historically relevant on their own terms, but also have real relevance to any transition to an uncharted socialist future.
- Review: Memoirs of An Underground Woman
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
UNDERGROUND WOMAN. My Four Years as a New York City Subway Conductor, by Marian Swerdlow. Temple University Press, 1998; $18.95 paper.
- Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
- Stop TTC fare increase
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
Governments apply a double standard. They demand that public transit pay for itself and that health care and education be judged by 'cost-benefit' analyses. But they apply no such standard to industrial policy where billions of dollars are shelled out, supposedly to create jobs, even though in fact corporation are axing jobs, not creating them, while their profits continue to climb.
- Toronto Talks Transit with Herman Rosenfeld
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2014
Herman Rosenfeld speaks about transit issues in Toronto, and the campaign for good affordable public transit
- Transit Activism and the Urban Question in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The demand for free transit has been an important starting point of recent mobilizations in Brazil, notably those that shook the whole country in the summer of 2013. This interview with local activists and researchers João Tonucci and André Veloso zeroes in on transit organizing in Belo Horizonte, the third largest metropolitan area in Brazil.
- Transportation Association of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Trolleycars
Streetcars, Trams and Trolleys of North America: A Photographic History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
- Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
- What would Rosa Parks do today?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
If Rosa Parks was taking action against transit racism today, she likely wouldn’t talk about segregated seating. Instead, she would be calling attention to disappearing service and unaffordable fares in communities that need transit the most.
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