Item - 2025.TTC7.5

Tracking Status

This item was considered by Toronto Transit Commission on July 17, 2025 and was adopted without amendment.

TTC7.5 - Budget Adjustment for the Purchase of Gasoline Wheel-Trans Vehicles, and Introduction of Smaller Electric Vehicles

Decision Type:: ACTION

Status:: Adopted

Confidential Attachment - This report contains information related to a position, plan, procedure, criteria, or instruction to be applied to any negotiations carried on or to be carried on by or on behalf of the City or local Board.

Commission Decision

The TTC Board:

1. Approved expenditure adjustments to the TTC’s 2025-2034 Capital Budget and Plan for the Purchase of Wheel-Trans Buses Program by amending the 2025 Capital Budget by $0 and the 2026-2031 cash flow funding estimates by $34.931 million to reflect the procurement of 105 Wheel-Trans Buses and to align with the estimated project delivery schedule.

2. Authorized the recommended budget adjustments noted in Recommendation 1 above, and in the TTC’s 2025-2034 Capital Budget and Plan, to be included in the TTC’s Capital Variance Report submission for the six months ended June 30, 2025, for City Council consideration and approval.

3. Adopted the recommendations contained in Confidential Attachment 1 and authorized that the information remain confidential.

Origin

(July 17, 2025) Report from the Executive Director, Innovation and Sustainability and Chief Transportation and Vehicles Officer

Summary

This report recommends a budget adjustment to allocate funds for procurement of 105 gasoline-powered paratransit buses for Wheel-Trans service.

In parallel to the trial of all-electric Wheel-Trans (eWT) buses reported in February 24, 2025, these 55 six-metre and 50 seven-metre ProMaster buses will be delivered between 2026 and 2029 in time to replace vehicles that are reaching the end of their design life. Should the eWT pilot be successful, these 105 gasoline-powered buses will be the last we procure, and the fleet will be zero-emissions by 2035, 5 years ahead of the TransformTO NetZero target.

Subject to the re-allocation of requested funds, these vehicles will be procured using Metrolinx’s Transit Procurement Initiative (TPI) program, a Metrolinx-led process that is competitively procured and enables Ontario transit agencies to benefit from reduced costs through joint procurement. In October 2024, Creative Carriage was awarded the contract for six-to-eight-metre paratransit buses following a competitive process under TPI. Since 2017, the TTC has procured 371 gasoline-powered paratransit vehicles from Creative Carriage through prior agreements under this initiative, which continues to represent the best available option in terms of cost and quality.

This report also informs the Board of an upcoming pilot program to introduce smaller electric vehicles, likely sedans or SUVs, to the Wheel-Trans fleet to optimize the fleet mix and enhance Wheel-Trans operations.

Background Information

(July 17, 2025) Report and Attachments 2-3 from the Executive Director, Innovation and Sustainability and Chief Transportation and Vehicles Officer on Budget Adjustment for the Purchase of Gasoline Wheel-Trans Vehicles, and Introduction of Smaller Electric Vehicles
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/ttc/bgrd/backgroundfile-257222.pdf
Confidential Attachment 1

Communications

(July 17, 2025) E-mail from Nicole Corrado (TTC.Main)

Motions

Motion to Adopt Item moved by Joe Mihevc (Carried)