#transit-equity

#transit-equity

Rhoda Potter, president of the Agincourt Village Community Association, has lived in Scarborough for more than 50 years and says her community is waiting to see a subway line come to fruition. Many people in Scarborough cannot afford a car. They need to take public transit and it takes them hours to get anywhere, she said. Potter says she's been attending Metrolinx meetings and talking with MPs to advocate for her community

There are days where I'm in pain [doing] that walking, plus packages will be that much rougher for me, you know, to walk that extra two or three blocks,

BART held an event to announce the start of "open payments" last August, meaning that riders can now enter the system by slapping a credit card on the fare gates. That's made possible by the roll out of Clipper II, the Bay Area's modernized fare payment system. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission recently announced that the rest of the Bay Area's transit agencies will switch to Clipper II in December. Included in this move is the reduction or elimination of charges for transferring between systems.

This project is a rare chance to meet two of our city's urgent needs at once: building housing and advancing Phase 2 of the Second Avenue Subway.