Letting streetcar insert a phase before left turns is indeed the lowest-hanging fruit to reduce streetcar/LRT delay. Or phase rotation (changing phase order). Councillor Saxe has just directed staff to investigate doing so. Let's hope it actually happens this time. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

This is the TSP setup that must be standard on #TTC streetcar, LRT, and priority Ten Minute Network bus routes along with fully actuated signals to get transit moving and make TTC the better way then general traffic in @toronto.ca @ttcriders.bsky.social @mayoroliviachow.ca @moretransitso.bsky.social

Yes on time and late trams should both have some level of priority (late trams should get more though), and from what I've heard that is the case on the LRT lines. Here is the typical setup for TSP in the Netherlands:

Under East German socialism - which I witnessed first hand - public transit was slow and clunky and reediculously cheap. Especially if you got your pfennigs on the black market. There is no free lunch. Not in capitalism. And not in socialism

I know but I keep calling advocates out on this because if advocates use technical terms in a way other than their technical meaning, they are giving the City/Mx an excuse to not properly implement priority. Because they can honestly say "we implemented full active TSP" while trams still sit at reds

The line already has active TSP. Can we please request what actually matters, which is that they use STRONG priority parameters.

Any update @ttcriders.bsky.social @moretransitso.bsky.social on this. The Mayor @mayoroliviachow.ca and Councillor @joshmatlow.bsky.social requested a report on this later in 2025. It is a priority that proper full active TSP is on given on Line 5 & 6 so the billions wasn’t wasted on slower trips.

Advocacy Update: In a letter to Toronto City Council’s Infrastructure and Environment Committee, we supported TTCriders’ campaign for full active transit signal priority on the Eglinton Crosstown and Finch West LRTs.

#Ontario, #Canada is extending its One Fare scheme for two years, keeping transfers between the TTC and regional agencies to a single fare. The programme has saved riders millions and supports wider transit expansion across the Greater #Toronto and #Hamilton Area. news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

Toronto has some of the most used and highest frequency bus corridors on the continent. It’s crazy they don’t/can’t go all in on making buses great (dedicated lanes, stop consolidation, etc.). It’s not a city where you can even begin to pretend that “nobody rides the bus”.

I wonder if automated metro like REM should be entertained within the Milton & Midtown line alignments because of how little movement has been seen with the additional tracks and rail-rail flyover needed for TWADF GO service. May also make a Square One diversion a bit cheaper and could connect to OL

🏴 | Happy St Andrew’s Day! To celebrate, we were joined by PhD student Arianna Ranieri, who surprised passengers on the #MustBeNapier Edinburgh Tram with a performance of some traditional Scottish tunes. Sit back and enjoy Arianna’s beautiful take on ‘Kelvingrove’! 🎧 ➡️ youtu.be/dCNjWZK79O8

Happy Metro Tunnel Opening Day for all those who celebrate! 🚇🥳 Better, reliable, accessible, fast, frequent, connected public transport opens up access to opportunity, and gets more people off the roads and out of the traffic. #Melbourne #MetroTunnel

#Melbourne Metro Tunnel first day! Huge numbers of people despite the weather. Some delays but looking great - just a shame they only ran trains every 20 minutes - some long waits and very crowded trains. But great to see this opened. Bring on the full timetable!

Melbourne Metro Tunnel #Munnel is now open. Limited twenty-minutely service operating until the Big Switch on February 1st when the Pakenham, Cranbourne, and Sunbury Lines permanently shift from the City Loop to the Metro Tunnel with additional services across Metro Trains Melbourne’s network.

Here’s a LinkedIn post by my boss about the Line 6 Finch West and how it compares to GRT’s Ion Light Rail and ETS’s Valley Line: Feel free to explore the data yourself: - TransitBunny tool: lnkd.in/gHRN-wA8 - TTC static GTFS: lnkd.in/g3J-dqgS - Great analysis by Steve Munro: lnkd.in/gEE8sDT8

Red carpet for the Red Rocket

my god, this is atrocious the tram line in Poznan that's closest to me, which also runs in the median with signal priority at a majority of all intersections, has an average scheduled speed of 23,8 km/h and it is able to reach the vast majority of the time

At $240M/km, Finch West LRT is… - MORE expensive per-km than the Sheppard Subway - 2X the per-km cost of the Montreal REM & underground metros in other developed nations … for a tram that’s SLOWER than a bus in traffic. Let’s not mislead the public; Line 6 should be the 536 Finch West streetcar!

Many discussions of streetcar speed turn on questions of service operation, intersection policy, signal timings and local conditions on routes. This article reviews pre/post pandemic conditions on 510 Spadina, 511 Bathurst and 512 St. Clair. stevemunro.ca/2025/11/19/t...

Replacing a bus with a tram, giving it all the constraints of poorly managed fixed-guideway transit (slow zones at every intersections) without the advantages (aggressive signal priority) and you've the perfect recipe for underperforming transit.

I really wish lay people understood that there is nothing intrinsically faster in at-grade, on-street rail compared to buses. If anything, it has a number of constraints that can make it potentially slower. It's the quality of priority that determines its performance, not the rail.

A new report coming to the city’s Infrastructure and Environment Committee (IEC) on Dec 4 is proposing nearly 20kms of new and upgraded bike lanes including Rathburn Rd, Trethewey Dr, and Kingston Rd. All projects SHOULD be Bill 212/60 compliant and free from provincial overreach.

Narrower lanes also slow cars down by making drivers more uncomfortable and careful subconsciously. People won’t drive like they’re on a highway when lanes are only 3 - 3.3m wide but will when lanes are 3,5-3.8m wide. So this move will also help compensate for the loss of speed cameras.

So the province’s replacement for speed cameras (now banned) are giant signs that are too big for municipal signposts and large enough for an adult let alone a child to hide behind (good luck crossing the street safely). Ontario also only gave @toronto.ca 20 signs for 600 school zones & 75 cameras🤯🤬

Toronto Police Service @tps.ca is assigning neighbourhood community officers (NCO) to two sections on #TTC Subway Line 1: Union to Wellesley and Bloor-Yonge to Eglinton (4 each). Four additional neighbourhoods also getting NCOs. They’re experienced local constables for community safety patrols.

This is sooooooo infuriating. Complete signal control is the lowest hanging of all TTC low hanging fruits but the City of Toronto just won't do it, even for the yet to open Eglinton Crosstown Nope. No way. No sir. @mayoroliviachow.ca

I apologize that my feed has largely become complaints about Toronto transit but holy God streetcar transit here is abysmal. Looking at jobs in his hellish labour market just so I don't have to deal with this nonsense I do gain solace in that I am def not the only one youtu.be/CPbXfHFbke0?...

Transit meet up: Sunday December 7th🤞is the opening date of Line 6 Finch West. Anyone want to meet in the afternoon for a comprehensive transit fan meet up and line inspection including all intermediate stops? @longbranchmike.bsky.social @jedwinmok.com @seanyyz.bsky.social @rmtransit.bsky.social

Melbourne and Sydney have similar populations - but their trains are a lot more frequent than ours, especially on weekends. Frequent services make it so much easier to use public transport - especially when heading to events or appointments, or interchanging from other lines.

Close our borders. Require a visa for every US visitor. Deny “ transit to Alaska” exemptions. $500.00 visa fees for any US citizen or resident. Search every traveller and vehicle entering. We can be friendly and smart.

Allow extra time for confusion #Stark6 #EditorialCartoon #Transit #PublicTransit #TTC #TTCAlerts #TTCProblems #Toronto #CommuterLife #TransitChaos

Absolutely tragic this happened. But also pure darwinism. That section of track is in between a freeway and fenced off. There's also plenty of areas to safely cross the freeway. This comment on Reddit from the other day sums this up.

Metrolinx publishing a meaningfully specific set of goals and the infrastructure work required to achieve it for GO Expansion? Am I dreaming?

Question about #REM: Looking at the network on OpenRailwayMap.org suggests that the Airport branch will be single track through the tunnel between YUL and Marie Currie Stations. Seems shortsighted for extensions. Do social sources like the EA show the planned track arrangements/alignment drawings?

#RapidTO streetcar priority lanes on Bathurst Street are painted between Lake Shore and Fort York. Looking forward to the rest of the work being completed all the way to Bloor soon! #Toronto

The new GO Transit maps in trains are great, and include the TTC’s rapid transit network. We need more unified regional wayfinding like this!

The wayfinding is better but not perfect. The mode icon is unnecessary in addition tothe line number. The bus bays at Mount Dennis don’t have any numbers displayed but the screens & map inside list bay number. The route lozenges are above the door but not visible sideways when walking along.

I will be at Mount Dennis Station at 2pm if anyone else wants to meet up to check out the new train station and bus terminal.

Is 24hr pharmacies a Canadian thing? I remember when I was in Sydney and couldn’t sleep because of my body’s alergic reacting to the plain trees (insane runny nose). It was like 4-5am but everything closes 8 or 9pm at the latest and didnt open till like 9am jn the morning anywhere in the city. 1/2

Melbourne Metro Tunnel will Munnel earlier. Limited services now commencing November 30th instead of December. Full timetable change in February as previously announced.

The #TTC signage for subway replacement shuttle buses isn’t just non-existent. It is outright wrong. The signs say to board replacement buses on Bloor Street, but they’re boarding at Jane Station bus terminal and a block north of Ossington Station. Fix it @toronto.ca @tps.ca @ttcalerts.bsky.social

The REM is essential infrastructure — an automated light metro system across Greater Montréal that will connect more and more of the city as it grows.    Great cities have great public transit, and that’s what we’re investing to build more of across Canada in Budget 2025.

Up now: on the speed camera item, Mayor Olivia Chow has a motion requesting Premier Doug Ford cover the cost of programs that were previously funded by speed camera revenue, including the crossing guard program and the salaries of 18 police officers. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

Let’s do it. Dissolve parking and bike share into the TTC. Use bike share as an extension of transit and charge more for parking the better the transit service is. Replace on-street parking with priority lanes for transit.

In the end, we won. Neighbourhood retail has been re-legalized.

Canadian (and honestly anglosphere) infrastructure/public project delivery problems in a nutshell:

Honestly, this change makes sense though UPExpress will need renaming. Without renovating Pearson airport for lower-platform trains, we create a conflict at Wice between services to Pearson and local KIT services from Malton. Further, there are only three tracks from Wice to Malton, limiting locals.

The way that GO Expansion is being scaled back in scope but not in price is worthy of a Royal Commission. Sadly, that's not going to happen.

It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Safe bike-lanes mean business.