TTC adds more employees to subway rotation after violence, rise in youth incidents – Toronto | 24CA News
TORONTO — The Toronto Transit Commissions says it’s instantly deploying a further 80 workers to maneuver all through the system every day within the wake of latest violence.
The transit company introduced late Friday that extra administration employees can be “highly visible” and rotate by way of the subway community throughout peak service hours.
The announcement got here hours earlier than Toronto police stated it acquired reviews of two separate incidents on the TTC Friday night involving a gaggle of younger folks.
Police say a person was assaulted by a gaggle of younger folks on a TTC bus within the metropolis’s east finish and he was taken to hospital with minor accidents.
Minutes earlier, the drive says it acquired reviews alleging a gaggle of younger folks assaulted a person at a downtown subway station a few kilometre away.
Det.-Const. Michelle Flannery says police are at the moment treating the assaults as separate incidents and are interesting for witnesses to come back ahead to help the continuing investigation.
