A move to get more support for London Transit service managed to get through by a tight 8-7 vote. The move will cost $18 million over the next four years while adding 18,000 service hours, increasing bus service on busy routes.
Earlier in the budget process councillors voted down London Transit's original request for more service hours.
"The service level is not adequate," said Coun. Sam Trosow, who said residents in his north London ward are regularly complaining about buses that are often too full to pick up new passengers during busy times.
"If we cannot allow this very reasonable service upgrade, we are turning our backs on everything we purport to be saying about our desire as a city to get people out of our cars," he said.