The Canadian Transit System says: Sure, we'll raise your fare by 18 %

Just when it looks like things can't get anymore expensive, taxes can't get any higher, and the economy can't get any worse, the PUBLIC transit system decides to raise it's fares once again.

For those of you that aren't familiar with the Toronto Transit Commission, it's a fairly average system that gets you to where you want to go. Nice work. Thanks for doing your job decently.

It's also one of the most expensive in the world. 2.75 for one ride...109$ for a monthly pass.

I, myself, am a monthly pass purchaser who, for the most part, was pretty happy with the deal I was getting every month.

Well, it turns out the Toronto Transit Commision went over budget last year by tens of millions of dollars for some reason and will therfore be raising all prices in 2010 on just about everything.

That bus pass will jump up to nearly 130 bucks and that single ride fair will be at 3.00. Doesn't this make anyone else mad? Why aren't people storming the bus terminals?

Listen, I understand raising prices 3, 4, even 5 dollars...maybe even more...But to raise the cost by somewhere around 20 percent is simply outrageous.

It makes me even more upset when I think about the city transit councillors going over to vienna last summer for a "transit conferenc." Wow, how much did that cost the TTC users and tax payers...something like 40Gs per TTC board members.

How about Adam Giambrone and the people at the top take a pay cut? How about not driving a dagger into our hearts when we've alredy lost our jobs? How about not wasting money on installing bike racks on every bus hat absolutely no one uses?

Quit wasting out money!