Scarborough deserves robust subway and light rail solutions that connect to the rest of the city's network. Numerous proposals for transit lines in Scarborough have been languishing at city hall for years, such as the Eglinton East LRT or the Eastward Sheppard Line Extension. Taiba aims to be a champion for Scarborough transit, and will push city hall at every chance she gets to break ground on these vital projects and give Scarborough a better way to move!

Toronto's transit problems aren't limited just to the availability of transit, but also its quality. In 2025, Toronto's transit reliability sat at just 58%! This is absolutely unacceptable. And in a report published last year, City Council found that trespassers at the track level were among the primary reasons why lines 1 and 2 experienced prolonged service disruptions, last year. The solution to this problem is obvious: platform screen doors (PSDs). Most modern transit systems employ them throughout their subway networks but the TTC does not. Taiba pledges to stop City Council from constantly dragging its feet on PSDs and give the project the funding it needs to get off the ground in the 2027 TTC budget.

But transit isn't just rail, especially in Scarborough. After Line 3's closure, most people in Scarborough Centre rely heavily on inadequete bus routes that suffer from bunching along their lines, and are constantly behind schedule. Taiba wants to invest more in our surface network, and better delay reporting procedures to ensure that when buses arrive late, we know why, and how to fix it.

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Beyond housing, urban life is becoming more expensive in a vast array of other areas. As wages stagnate and the cost of basic necessities continues to rise hopelessly, government must step in to control this scourge. Grocery prices have consistently seen the most growth since the pandemic, often outpacing the inflation rate by anywhere between 2 to 40 percentage points!

It's no secret that Canada's major grocery chains artificially fix prices for basic commodities and regularly overcharge their customers. Corporate grocers, by very nature, seek to do nothing but extract as much profit from hard-working Canadians as possible in order to satisfy their investors. The solution, therefore, is to support locally-owned supermarkets and grocers that sell locally-sourced products and prevent them from being driven out of business by giants like Loblaws and Sobey's.

Taiba pledges to establish a fund to support locally-owned and operated grocers with municipal grants and no-interest loans. Additionally, Taiba will push City Hall to explore ways to improve the efficiency of Toronto's food supply chains. Investing in regional distribution centres around the city's many food deserts could serve to lower food transportation costs and simultaneously bring higher-quality products to underserved communities, like those in Scarborough Centre.

Scarborough's arterial roads are falling into disrepair faster than the city is able to repair them at current funding levels. Anyone who's taken the bumpy bus ride down to Kennedy station or simply just tried to commute downtown via Eglinton East is all too familiar with this issue. Potholes, cracks, depressions, and poor-quality sidewalks are making it harder to traverse Scarborough Centre, less convenient, and less comfortable to commute downtown. The funds and resources that the city has dedicated to the repair and maintenance of Scarborough's roads are not enough. In the first two months of 2026, alone, the city responded to over 61% of the potholes reported in all of 2025, citing a harsh and unpredictable winter season.

We know that due to the worsening effects of climate change and global warming, unpredictable weather is here to stay; we cannot simply hope that next winter will be better. The city must take a more aggressive approach to poor road conditions and infrastructure quality by dedicating more money and resources to the pothole budget. But more importantly, Taiba believes that the city shouldn't wait for motorists to suffer burst tires, or for cyclists and pedestrians to injure themselves on inadequate bike lanes and sidewalks before doing anything to help.