The TTC and the Herbert H. Carnegie Future Aces Foundation are teaming up to recognize and reward people who help others while traveling on the TTC.

Sundays over the next year, high school students from the Toronto District School Board will visit various subway stations, looking for passengers and TTC employees whom they’ve “caught in the act” of doing good deeds, such as picking up litter or opening a door for another person.

The students will issue Special Future Aces Tickets and a coupon, which good-deed-doers can redeem for a drink at Mac’s Convenience Stores.

Students participating in the program will be looking out for many things, including:

people respecting the environment by picking up litter;

people helping others by holding open a door;

helping parents with children and people with mobility devices.

“The Board of Directors and staff at the Herbert H. Carnegie Future Aces Foundation are very excited to join the TTC, its passengers and employees”, said Carnegie Foundation Executive Director Bernice Carnegie during an event today launching the program. “This proactive initiative provides an outlet to acknowledge those small, but positive, deeds that show we do care about our environment and others. We really can make a difference.”

“I am so pleased to bring positive ticketing to the TTC and believe our TTC riders will truly appreciate getting rewards for good deeds,” said Councillor Karen Stintz, the chair of the Toronto Transit Commission.

High school students who participate in the program will a credit for community-service hours. They start looking out for good deeds in subway stations this Sunday, February 26 from 1:30 until 3:30 p.m.