It ' s not just the increased amount of time in transit . Here ' s an example from my own life . I took the TTC for 18 years . While I lived downtown , it was fine . Overcrowded , unreliable , whatever . I could make do . Living up in the suburbs is quite another story . For the first 3 years I continued taking transit . It got so bad that I couldn ' t do it anymore . I rely specifically on the Dufferin bus route that is scheduled to only come every half hour . It ' s a YRT route that is contracted out to the TTC . This isn ' t some side route or anything . This is a route on a major street . Now imagine that you are scheduling your commute around this bus that only comes every 30 minutes . But then your bus just doesn ' t show up . And the next one doesn ' t show up . And then the next one is running at least 10 minutes behind schedule and is packed to the rafters with commuters who by now are running an hour and a half behind schedule . Now repeat this scenario at least twice a week for two years . This is the reality of transit in the suburbs . Calling it unreliable is understating the impact that it has on riders , employers and everyone . I complained to the TTC every single day that I had to use the transit route for a year . The final straw was when I was yelled at and called names by a driver when I asked him not to leave 10 minutes early or 20 minutes late , however you want to look at it because there were people who were relying on him staying on schedule . How can a person continue to rely on transit in a situation like that ? If you think John Tory is going to fix a mess like this up in the suburbs with the money that is coming in from highways tolls , I ' ve got a road to lease to you for the next 99 years .