Getting Around

A standalone candidate question bank — every figure sourced and checkable, every question identical for every candidate. Also part of the full twelve-category bank.

How to use this bank

• Any Torontonian, any candidate, any office. These questions presuppose no position — they ask what a candidate would do, how they would decide, and how residents would check.
• Jurisdiction tags: [CITY] — council, mayor, or city boards control this directly. [CITY→PROVINCE] — the lever sits with the province; the honest city question is what to ask of Queen’s Park, and what the city does if the answer is no.
• Facts are receipts, not traps. Where a question carries a figure, it is a sourced claim, cited below. Candidates are welcome to dispute any figure — the source trail is public.
• Never ranks, scores, or endorses any candidate or party.
• The universal set (end of this document) works for every office on the ballot.

Getting Around

2.1 [CITY] Congestion costs the Toronto region an estimated $44.7 billion a year in social and economic costs. Name the two or three congestion measures you would prioritize in this term, and the number you would publish so residents can see whether they worked.

2.2 [CITY] What is your standard for transit service quality — how often it comes, how crowded it is, how reliable it is — and what would you do, within the city’s own budget and powers, to move today’s service toward that standard?

2.3 [CITY] By the end of 2024, about 230 km (46%) of Toronto’s planned ~500 km network of major city-wide cycling routes were built, and the current plan commits 100 km of new and major-upgrade bikeways over 2025-2027. Would you keep, speed up, or slow that pace — and how should the city decide which streets are chosen?

2.4 [CITY] In 2025, 39 people died in traffic on Toronto’s own streets — about half the number from 2016. Nationally, Canada recorded 1,964 road deaths in 2023; pedestrians were 15.2% of them. When someone is killed or seriously injured on a Toronto street today, what should happen next on that street — and who should be accountable for it happening?

2.5 [CITY→PROVINCE] More than 20 transit providers across the Greater Golden Horseshoe set their own fares, and the provincially funded One Fare program — estimated by the Financial Accountability Office at $121 million in its first full year — currently covers the transfer discount. What should the next stage of fare and service integration look like, and who should pay for it?

2.6 [CITY] Toronto’s own stated principle is that parking standards should allow only the maximum amount of automobile parking reasonably required for a given use — with minimums avoided except where necessary to ensure equitable access, such as accessible parking or areas that would be difficult to serve with transit — and provincial law already bars the city from requiring more than one space per unit for secondary suites. Separately, in November 2025 Council rescinded the Toronto Parking Authority’s entire board and replaced it with City officials, pending a governance review. What should the city do next on each front — further parking-minimum reform, and TPA’s own governance — and how would you judge whether either one worked?

Universal set — for any candidate, any office

U.1 How will residents know if you succeeded? Name two or three public, checkable measures you are willing to be judged on at the end of the term — and where residents will find them.

U.2 What is one thing you would copy for Toronto from another city — anywhere in the world — and what makes you confident it would work here?

U.3 Name one thing the city currently does or funds that you would stop or shrink — and what you would say, face to face, to the residents who value it.

U.4 When the evidence in front of you and the residents you represent disagree, how do you decide? Give a real example of a position you changed, and why.

U.5 Name one problem residents raise constantly that the office you seek cannot fix directly. What do you tell them honestly — and what would you still do about it?

Sources & receipts

1. $44.7B annual congestion cost, Toronto region — regional transportation-cost study (2.1).
2. ~230 of ~500 km (46%) of the major cycling network built by end of 2024; 100 km of new/major-upgrade bikeways committed 2025-2027 — City of Toronto cycling network reporting (2.3).
3. 39 traffic deaths in Toronto, 2025, about 50% below 2016 — City of Toronto Vision Zero Road Safety Plan Annual Report 2025 (2.4).
4. 1,964 Canadian road deaths, 2023; pedestrians 15.2% of them — national road-safety statistics (2.4).
5. 20+ Greater Golden Horseshoe transit providers set their own fares; One Fare program cost ~$121M in its first full year — Financial Accountability Office of Ontario (2.5).
6. Toronto’s parking-standard principle (maximum-not-minimum, use-based) — City of Toronto planning-studies materials (2.6).
7. Bill 23 caps municipal parking-minimum authority for secondary suites at one space per unit — provincial regulation (ERO notice 019-6163) (2.6).
8. November 2025: Council rescinded the Toronto Parking Authority’s board, replaced with City officials, pending governance review — City of Toronto agency reporting (2.6).

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