Fare Pricing

This report benefitted from the contributions of researchers Eli Heyman, master’s degree candidate at the McGill School of Urban Planning at the time of research, and Jeff Allen, doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto School of Geography and Planning, who supported the research and analysis. [...] We found that for households in the lowest before-tax household income quartile, the annual cost of the toll would amount to approximately 23.2% of annual transportation expenditure, whereas the cost would amount to only 4.6% of annual transportation expenditure for households in the highest income quartile (based on Ontario average expenditures). [...] This study contributes new knowledge about the income impacts of a specific City of Toronto road pricing proposal, with the intention to contribute to the ongoing region-wide conversation now and in the future. [...] Small sections of the municipalities of Dufferin and Simcoe were included at the northern boundary of the study area, and the rural townships of Scugog (pop. [...] The TTS is also thought to under-represent the lowest and highest-income households in the region.22 The income categories presented in the study results were designed according to the categories and geographical scope of the income categories in the source data.