Not paying your fare is illegal and could cost you a fine of up to $425. The fares we collect help us limit fare increases, deliver service and maintain and our system. When you don’t pay your fare, you impact our ability to do this.

Mar 21, 2024 · Starting this week, a new campaign containing a variety of fare evasion messages will be rolled out across the TTC. The campaign focuses on the importance and benefits of paying proper fares while also reminding those who face financial difficulties about …

Dec 4, 2024 · Having inspectors patrol in plain clothes is another step in the TTC’s enhanced efforts to protect some of the $140 million lost to fare evasion yearly. Tickets for fare evasion range from $235 to $425 depending on the nature of the evasion.

Starting March 27, 2023, TTC will resume ticketing customers for fare evasion. Fare Inspectors will focus ticketing on busy streetcar routes in the downtown core. Ticketing will also resume in subway stations downtown, many of which have multiple entry points.

In February, the Auditor General reported on a months-long investigation into fare evasion on the TTC, finding that it cost the TTC more than $60 million in 2018 alone, impacting the TTC's ability to limit fare increases, deliver service and maintain the system.

The TTC has been working to modernize fare payment across the system and looking for ways to save lost revenue through fare evasion. The TTC stopped selling its tokens, youth/senior tickets and day passes at stations in December 2019.

Fare is defined as the amount to be paid for travel on the transit system as determined by the Commissioners of the TTC. For a current list of the types of payments accepted by the TTC, please visit Fares and Passes. Fare evasion: Illegal entry into a subway station through a bus bay

Not paying a fare (fare evasion) could result in a TTC Transit Fare Inspector issuing a customer a fine up to $425. Each time a Wheel-Trans customer profile exceeds five (5) no-fare trips, a “non-payment of fares” letter will be sent to their attention.;

In the tables below, “Total Payable” includes set fine, applicable victim fine surcharge and costs. Note: The general penalty provision for the offences listed above is section 4.2 of TTC By-law #1, a certified copy of which has been filed.

That an action plan addressing the outstanding recommendations contained in the Auditor General’s Report - Review of Toronto Transit Commission's Revenue Operations: Phase One – Fare Evasion and Fare Inspection, 2019 be presented to the Audit & Risk Management Committee prior to the July 17 TTC Board meeting.