Toronto’s transit system is no longer willing to offer up parked buses at Spadina Station as stopgap winter homeless shelters, with a new report saying the model is no longer viable.
The report from the TTC, released this week in advance of an upcoming board meeting, provides a post-mortem on the controversial program that quietly operated last winter. The buses were originally intended to transport those sheltering in the TTC when it closed to shelters, but with shelters packed all winter, that was rarely possible. In 98 cases, the TTC transported someone to a bed, the report says, but in 5,914 cases, people were left to sleep onboard.