Passing of Howard Moscoe, former TTC Board Chair

The TTC is deeply saddened to learn that former City Councillor and TTC Board Chair Howard Moscoe passed away this morning. Our thoughts are with Mr. Moscoe’s family as they mourn his passing. He was 86.

Mr. Moscoe served as Commissioner, Vice-Chair, and Chair during his 14 years of service on the Commission. He served on the TTC Board from 1992 to 2006. He was TTC Chair from 1998 to 2000 and from 2003 to 2006.

Mr. Moscoe was a prominent and long-serving Councillor for Eglinton-Lawrence and a fierce advocate for transit system accessibility and for securing sustainable funding for the TTC.

Mr. Moscoe took the helm at the TTC during a very challenging and complex year for the new amalgamated City of Toronto.

Under Mr. Moscoe’s first term as Chair, the TTC broke ground on the new Queens Quay streetcar line that would connect Union Station with Exhibition Place; began construction on the Sheppard Subway, as well as started building the new Transit Control Centre at Hillcrest Complex.

During his second term as Chair, Mr. Moscoe helped steer the TTC through the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) crisis and North America’s largest electricity blackout affecting 50 million people across the North Eastern Seaboard, both of which caused significant declines in ridership.

Under his tenure, the TTC introduced its Ridership Growth Strategy in 2003, a blueprint for transit investment for the decade that followed, which saw the system grow ridership to more than half a billion riders annually.

“It was a wild and exciting ride,” Mr. Moscoe said at his official TTC farewell at City Hall in 2007. “We were building a transit system together and we were doing it for the people of Toronto.”

On behalf of all TTC employees, we extend our condolences to Mr. Moscoe’s family and friends during this difficult time.

All flags across TTC properties are lowered to half-mast in Mr. Moscoe’s honour.​

Former TTC Chair Howard Moscoe​