Interview with Steve Munro regarding his decades of activism and the issues with Toronto's current transit environment: https://torontolife.com/city/steve-munro-has-been-calling-out-torontos-transit-problems-for-20-years/

With the World Cup looming, new upgrades are needed to ensure smooth and frequent streetcar service to Exhibition Place. https://globalnews.ca/news/11661819/toronto-world-cup-streetcar-plan/

Riding Line 5 today? We’d love to hear from you about how it went! Fill out our survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Keep your eyes peeled today for CodeRedTO volunteers along #Line5 to get a button or magnet! #TTC #metrolinx

Free online panel: "What is ‘public’ about public transportation? The question of accessibility" Speakers - Ron Buliung, Geography, University of Toronto - Mahtot Gebresselassie, EUC, York University - Aimi Hamraie, Social Science, York University - Commentary from James Perttula, Director of […]

Steve Munro has reviewed the schedules: Line 5 schedule contains a significant reduction in travel time compared to bus, as little as half the time during evening rush, and a significant increase in consistency. Details […]

An examination of relative travel times, stop-to-stop speeds and stop spacing for 32/34 Eglinton buses and 5 Eglinton LRT trains. stevemunro.ca/2026/02/04/h...

Experts weigh in on how the opening of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT can avoid the issues seen on Finch West. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/eglinton-line-5-how-to-avoid-line-6-repeat-9.7067119

Jonathan English's slides to be presented at TTC Board today on surface transit revitalization are worth a review, with some interesting suggestions. Agenda item: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2026.TTC13.5 PDF […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

Interesting slides on transit signal priority from Narayan Donaldson, to be presented at TTC Board meeting today. You can follow much of the story by paging through. TTC Agenda item: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2026.TTC13.4 PDF […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

"Off the rails: The inside story of how the Eglinton Crosstown LRT went from transit dream to cautionary tale" - Toronto Star An epic review of the choices made over the last 20 years. #GiftLink #TTC #Metrolinx #TOPoli #onpoli#topoli#transit#metrolinx#giftlink#line5 […]

Toronto transit researcher, advocate, activist, and archivist Steve Munro @swanboatsteve.bsky.social posts on twenty years of blogging, the history before the blog, and where Toronto is continuing to lose ground […]

New trains for Line 2 - early design concepts unveiled https://globalnews.ca/news/11615156/toronto-red-rocket-design-unveiled/

Eglinton Crosstown LRT opening Feb 8, TTC reportedly tells Premier Doug Ford https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/01/26/eglinton-crosstown-lrt-opening-february-8/ #TTC #Metrolinx #toronto#TTC#topoli#metrolinx#line5

The inclusion of platform edge doors on the Ontario Line is a big win for its future riders and for transit safety overall - as well as a display of the need for retrofitting stations on Lines 1-4. Read more about the benefits of such improvements in CBC's article […]

“Riders don’t care about divided responsibilities; they just want good, reliable service. Toronto council wants to encourage more transit use for a growing city, but the credibility of transit depends on systems that work.” Review of Line 6 issues from […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

A detailed discussion of the car-centric choices which led to poor design & performance for Line 6 (and soon Line 5 too), from @notjustbikes "Doing the right thing the wrong way" as @BrentToderian puts it, will damage transit progress in Toronto. It's vital that these new lines be improved […]

"Why does winter weather seem to throw the Finch West LRT off track?" This demonstrates the problem with some privately-provided transit infrastructure: contracts prevent improvement because nobody is allowed to talk. #GiftLink #TOPoli #ONPoli #Transit #TTC […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

Delay logs for 6 Finch West show that by far the majority of problems lie with vehicles and infrastructure that are Metrolinx' responsibility, not the TTC's. stevemunro.ca/2026/01/04/6...

A review of the TTC's proposed 2026 operating budget: stevemunro.ca/2025/12/29/t...

An excellent animated slide sequence from @chittimarco.bsky.social on how dedicated space and grade separation impact average and top speeds for various transit modes. From "Speed Matters" […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

"TTC and Metrolinx battle over Eglinton Crosstown LRT date at tense private meeting" "A rift is growing between Metrolinx and Toronto’s transit agency over the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, as provincial officials push to open the years-delayed line in the final days of 2025. Multiple sources […]

Two new urgent motions have been filed for today's TTC Board Meeting, aimed at improving the performance of Line 6, and improving performance of the streetcar network as well. 11.8 Line 6 https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.TTC11.8 11.9 […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

We are all out of pins and magnets for today - if you got one we hope you enjoy it! (There will be more when we greet Line 5!)

Line 6 Finch opens Sunday December 7! To help celebrate, we are giving out some special pins and magnets that morning along the route - keep your eyes peeled!

TTC Reduced Speed Zones update: as of today there are no slow zones on Line 2, and only four remaining on Line 1, all of which are targeted to be removed by end of December. https://www.ttc.ca/riding-the-ttc/Updates/Reduced-Speed-Zones #TTC #topoli

Line 6 Finch opens Sunday December 7! To help celebrate, we are giving out some special pins and magnets that morning along the route - keep your eyes peeled!

In MacLean’s, @straphanger argues “Montreal’s New Rail Line Is the Future.” “Toronto has struggled for years to finish the Eglinton Crosstown, a light-rail project that is now going into its 15th year of construction. The Ontario Line, the successor to the Downtown Relief Line—a project first […]

TTC announces that Line 6 Finch will open Sunday December 7th https://www.ttc.ca/riding-the-ttc/Line-6-Finch-West #TTC #toronto #metrolinx #topoli #etobicoke #finchwest #transit #publictransit

Basically me. I almost entirely stopped using streetcars. I take the green line to go east west and then bus north south or just walk. I can’t really trust streetcar anymore. I don’t want to get rid of it. I want it fixed. #topoli #streetcarsummit https://mstdn.ca/@CodeRedTO/115600602847558557

Packed community centre room for the @ttcriders.bsky.social Streetcar Summit, including TTC Chair Jamaal Myers, who opens his remarks stating that the board *asked* to be told about how awful streetcars are, to provide more fuel to improve service. Follow this 🧵 to follow along, and use […]

Ahead of tomorrow's @ttcriders.bsky.social streetcar summit, @flurfdesign.bsky.social put out this video explaining why Toronto's streetcars are the slowest on Earth and how they can be fixed. #TTC #TOpoli youtu.be/CPbXfHFbke0?...

Details are finally out about what happened to the Scarborough subway extension boring machine that got stuck under the 401 https://globalnews.ca/news/11521835/scarborough-subway-extension-highway-401-closure/ #metrolinx #scarborough #topoli

Surface transit can be more reliable, and can move more people, if we do it right. @ttcriders.bsky.social is hosting a "Save Our Streetcars Summit" on November 23rd - come chat with @CodeRedTO and your fellow transit riders! https://www.ttcriders.ca/save_our_streetcars_summit

TTC Riders ( @ttcriders.bsky.social ) is hosting a ‘Save Our Streetcars Summit’ in Toronto on November 23. This is a free event with coffee, snacks, and TTC tickets upon request. Register here: https://www.ttcriders.ca/save_our_streetcars_summit?recruiter_id=16210 […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

Revenue service testing has resumed on line 5 Eglinton Unclear if they have to restart the 30 day testing protocol or can resume where it was in the process. Either ways trains are back at running on the line […]

CodeRedTO alongside many community members worked hard to ensure all rapid transit options were considered, and we are happy to see the residents and commuters of north Etobicoke get closer to this new line being ready! https://mastodon.online/@Pkbwood/115426050143797121

MEDIA RELEASE: CodeRedTO researchers have calculated the impact to worker pay and productivity as–at a minimum–over 20,000 hours and over $496,000 from this single two-hour incident […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

Streetcar Signal Priority in Depth, from Narayan Donaldson on @reece's blog, Next Metro https://open.substack.com/pub/nextmetro/p/toronto-fixing-the-spadina-streetcar?r=bqtf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

"Car costs are also baked into almost all the prices we pay: If you take the bus to a suburban shopping mall, the prices you pay include all the costs of the vast parking lot you didn’t use. If you drive to the mall, bus riders subsidize you." @humantransit on the […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

Le Téléjournal Ontario a discuté avec nous du coût élevé des portes palières. CodeRedTO: « Si nous devons dépenser des milliards pour augmenter la capacité de la CTT, d'autres projets devraient être envisagés, comme le WaterFront LRT de l'est, promis depuis des décennies » (à partir de 4:30) […]

Tunnel connecting UP Express to TTC's Dundas West station under construction after long delay CodeRedTO: "it should be something that we are able to pull off in a little *less* than 10 years" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/up-express-ttc-tunnel-1.7563769 […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

Metrolinx has said it will announce an opening date for the Eglinton Crosstown 3 months in advance. 3 months from now is September, which I understand aligns with how TTC schedules things. This is hopeful. #Toronto #TOpoli #TTC

Build it to respect customers' time and They Will Ride: "Passengers made more than 52 million trips by train between Beijing and Shanghai last year, while only about 8.6 million people took a flight between the two cities. Business travellers especially are increasingly viewing high-speed rail […]

TTC streetcar detour timeline: Jan 2025: detour, but parking/ stopping/ loading restrictions + dedicated transit lanes. March: transit lanes removed from plan April: restrictions removed from plan May: detour begins poorly @GraphicMatt in the Toronto Star […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

"Removing subsidized street parking to speed up the trip for tens of thousands of bus riders is so self-evidently logical it shouldn’t require debate." Globe editorial supports transit improvements on Dufferin and Bathurst […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

After 1st week, TTC has identified challenges with King streetcar diversion and announced an adjustment to reduce King/Spadina friction. News Release 1/2 "To ensure the TTC is providing the best service possible during the King/Church intersection closure, a small adjustment to the 504 King […]

CodeRedTO Recommends Emergency Streetcar Route Protections https://coderedto.com/coderedto-recommends-emergency-streetcar-route-protections/ #toronto #topoli #TTC #metrolinx #transit #publictransit

CodeRedTO Recommends Emergency Streetcar Route Protections https://coderedto.com/coderedto-recommends-emergency-streetcar-route-protections/ #toronto #topoli #TTC #metrolinx #transit #publictransit