Fifty of the TTC’s bus and streetcar routes exceed crowding standards at some point during the week, and the transit agency says a lack of available vehicles is at the root of the problem.
Rider counts collected in the spring and fall of this year and provided to the Star by the TTC show roughly one quarter of the agency’s surface routes regularly breached their crowding targets.
The 50 overcapacity routes represent a slight increase from the 43 that exceeded the standards in 2016.
TTC spokesperson Stuart Green said in most cases of overcrowding, “the average number of passengers per vehicle is only slightly in excess of our crowding standards,” and in some instances the counts are over by just “one or two people.”
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