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Every major city should be investing in support services like this for people in crisis:

This is a welcome development: www.progressiverailroading.com/safety/news/...

🚶🚲🚌🦼 Over 30% of King County residents don’t drive—and yet most of our transportation system is built for those who do. That’s why the King County Council has proclaimed Sept. 30-Oct 5 the Week Without Driving—to better understand and address these challenges. #WeekWithoutDriving

This announcement didn't receive a lot of media coverage, but its a few million dollars very well spent to improve transit and access to opportunities for rural Canadians. #alberta #abpoli prairie.transportaction.ca/news/transit...

In this video, we cover the Canadian Urban Transit Association’s call for long-term federal investment in transit and highlight what underfunding looks like on the ground in Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto. youtu.be/UKvP_-Br8Iw

Excellent article on the costs of cutting transit funding. The correct approach to bridging the rural-urban divide is to provide public transport for all communities, so nobody is left behind. Canada's Rural Transit Solutions Fund is a step in the right direction. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

While we welcome faster services, we are concerned by the very short notice given for this schedule change and by the absence of adjustments to rest of the schedule to maintain adequate service to intermediate towns and cities between Toronto and Montreal. www.transportaction.ca/topics/inter...

Transit Matters Charlottetown ( @transitmatterschtn.bsky.social ) is challenging residents and politicians to consider a Week Without Driving to highlight gaps in PEI's transit system: www.saltwire.com/newfoundland...

The race is on: Toronto's Finch West LRT could open before Ottawa's Confederation Line east extension, which is also progressing through integration testing. It's great to see these transit infrastructure investments coming to fruition. globalnews.ca/news/1143060...

Well done Ontario Northland! We would like to see many more investments like this, with federal funding to relieve rail bottlenecks across the country. www.timminstoday.com/local-news/5...

This is Rail Safety Week... remember the only time you should get a view like this is when you are onboard the train, otherwise please stay off the tracks and obey crossing signals so that everyone can get home safe. For more information and safety teaching resources see: www.operationlifesaver.ca

GO Transit, Ontario Northland, and Flixbus all drive into a bus station... The joke is on us, because only one service is tax-free, even to the same destination. It's time to make fares fair for rural Canadians too. www.transportaction.ca/topics/inter...

Canada has some catching up to do with Germany and other peer countries and trading partners who have built thousands of miles of high speed rail, so we're pleased that our government is finally making investment in passenger rail infrastructure a priority. www.transportaction.ca/topics/inter...

This new sense of urgency is welcome and something we've been asking for. Commitment must now be turned into action, using part of the $3.9B committed to deliver tangible results for passengers in parallel with the co-development phase. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Canada should restore daily train service across the country so cities like Portage do not become just places you fly over. portageonline.com/articles/por...

Our railways need to move more freight and more people, safely and faster. In our submission for budget 2025 we call for a Strategic Rail Infrastructure Fund to close the gap between purely commercial projects and protecting Canada's national interest. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

This would be a big win for TTC passengers. No need to worry about buying a pass, no cashflow and affordability issues, just ride—and the more you ride the more you save!

It would be interesting to have a similar option in North America for regional and commuter rail projects. In many places the track is in place and capacity exists, but procuring modern and standards-compliant equipment puts project delivery far over the horizon of the electoral cycle.

The long awaited Acela 2.0 trains are now in service in the USA, but crucial infrastructure projects to unleash their full capabilities are lagging behind. Sounds like a familiar problem.

“Efficiencies” don’t balance the books: they erode services and trust in our governments, institutions and organizations. My first (!!!) op-ed in the Ottawa Citizen: Why respect for taxpayers must mean real investment in transit, housing, and climate resilience. ottawacitizen.com/opinion/taxp...

Rural communities in Alberta exploring public transit options: www.lakelandtoday.ca/st-paul-news...

The suggestion of adding early-morning train service to Ottawa airport is really important. Many westbound flights leave Ottawa early in the morning, and check-in times are even earlier.

High transit ridership is diverse ridership -- diverse in every dimension: wealth, trip purpose, physical ability, gender, language, nationality, race ... Always push back on cultural stereotypes about "who rides public transit." Plan as though everyone counts.

Additional services plus expanded HandyDART hours are good news for Kamloops. Handi-transit should always be available for at least the same hours as conventional transit. www.castanet.net/news/Kamloop...

How you you get there from here? Sometimes it is not easy to find out! We're delighted to announce a collaboration with Sean Marshall (@seanyyz.bsky.social) to map all intercity and intercommunity transit, motorcoach, rail, and ferry routes: www.transportaction.ca/canada-inter...

Halifax to Windsor and Elmsdale would be heavy rail, and its worth extending services to Truro to take pressure off Highway 102. Forecasting cost and ridership is the easy bit. Negotiating a robust, win-win infrastructure investment agreement with CN is the challenge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Here's an update on the Vermonter extension and customs clearance for Amtrak in Montreal. trainsinthevalley.org/vermonter-ex...

Meanwhile we’re still waiting for Gapse and Vancouver Island…

“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusiness

If you were booked to travel on Air Canada during the strike, know your rights. They may be required to book you on another airline and compensate you for the disruption, even if they have only offered you a refund. airpassengerrights.ca/en/blog/air-...

While more motorcoach services are welcome, FlixBus isn't offering new routes in western Canada, just competing on existing ones. What passengers need is interline connectivity between operators, not another single entity that can collapse like Greyhound did. buff.ly/uFsDYZU

Building double track and separating major grade crossings in Calgary, Cochrane, Canmore, and Banff wouldn't just make passenger rail possible, it would improve safety and freight capacity too. This is detailed in our "Beyond HFR" report. www.cochraneeagle.ca/local-news/b...

This hurts families, but many of these passes are paid for by school boards, so it dumps costs onto another part of the public sector. That's simply unhelpful. The right way forward is stable transit funding from council and attracting more passengers. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

The bus drivers want bathroom breaks and access to washrooms. Not everybody can hold it for eight hours! Why is this matter of basic dignity even an issue, let alone so hard for Transdev and BC Transit to provide that the strike has gone on for this long? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Commuter rail in Halifax could get another look as part of this review. However, we need to ensure that new infrastructure investments are a win-win for passengers and freight and that requires better federal oversight of railway regulation. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We agree: Alberta passenger rail, implemented swiftly, is in Canada's national interest and should receive federal support. Join our campaign for reliable public transport all across Canada. www.cochraneeagle.ca/local-news/b...

This is how its done. Strategic leadership and steady investment in infrastructure and services pays ridership dividends. wydaily.com/latest/regio...

👏 Excellent news from Kingston. A safe ride home a night is crucial for shift workers and restaurant staff! www.thewhig.com/news/local-n...

Federal support enables Calgary Transit to buy 120 more zero-emission buses: www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

We guessed right: A highway 401 car-sewer would be $50B+ and take forever to get built. Better transit, better intercity rail, and shifting trucks to 407 can solve this problem faster and cheaper.

MONTREAL REM Views of Four Car LRV Testing in Pierrefonds-Roxboro | www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOZU...

Rail service would provide a boost to tourism and a lifeline to smaller communities and First Nations along the route. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

The Region has not shared its initial business case for the ION extension to Cambridge, but it is starting a series of public sessions and a survey to collect feedback on phasing options:

This wasn't a good idea to begin with, and it keeps getting worse. globalnews.ca/news/1131543...

Dynamically routed transit is a promising option for smaller communities. Pembroke, Ontario cancelled its fixed route service more than a decade ago, and so getting this service is a win for the community. We hope the federal government supports expanding it. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Sixty years or thirty years?! How about a little sooner? We have already written to the government asking for more train services starting from next summer to support Jasper's recovery from the devastating fire. www.fitzhugh.ca/municipal-co...

Toronto’s cycling infrastructure is safe for now, thanks to the court:

This would be very bad news for the travelling public in the United States. The correct approach is to invest in capacity to move both people and freight, because a thriving economy needs both. www.freightwaves.com/news/bill-ai...

Transport Action Atlantic has been calling for a reduction in ferry rates for many years, since they were raised by the Harper government's "austerity" measures. It is good to see a promise made by Trudeau finally being fulfilled by Carney. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...