The TTC is getting serious about cleaning up the transit system.

TTC chair Karen Stinz announced that after each morning rush hour at Finch and Kennedy stations, staff will go through each car and remove newspapers, coffee cups and other litter.

The TTC has reassigned some of its overnight cleaners to daylight off-peak hours. They will be set up on the platform at Kennedy station on the Bloor-Danforth line, with garbage bags in-hand, boarding each train as it arrives and quickly picking up the garbage.

TTC acting general manager Andy Byford said there will be another crew at Finch station covering the Yonge-University-Spadina line.

"It's about making sure that customers when they get on in the evening aren't getting onto a train where the same garbage is on it as it was in the morning. That's completely unacceptable," Byford said.

At Kennedy station, that was welcome news for TTC riders.

"It's pretty bad...there's no reason why someone can't read a paper, take it with them and put it in the garbage," one rider said.

"Food and coffee all over the floor -- it's always sticky," another rider said.

Cleaners will also spot-mop where needed. This cleaning will take place between the morning and afternoon rush hour.

The TTC is also testing out onboard cleaners on the trains between Osgoode and College stations.

It also wants to do something similar on the buses and streetcars.