One of the Ontario Northland Railway's new Siemens passenger trainsets passed through Hamilton today on their way north. It's a pretty attractive train!

New transit dollars for Waterloo Region, including $115M from Canada, $96M from Ontario, and $80M from Waterloo. Biggest ticket item is full Phase 2 funding for the Kitchener Central Transit Hub, connecting GO Transit, LRT, and busses. More here: www.canada.ca/en/housing-i...

Canada is moving ahead with the first leg of ALTO high speed rail, between Montreal and our Capital Ottawa. Chosen for its easy geography, this segment of HSR will cut travel times on this route to under an hour from 2 hours today. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Since Transit Signal Priority is a hot topic right now, here is a reminder of why. In a since deleted Q&A post from Metrolinx, they outline that the TTC essentially kneecapped transit priority on the Finch LRT and Eglinton LRT. We need to push Toronto to do better!

BREAKING: Toronto’s Line 5 Eglinton (Crosstown LRT) has achieved substantial completion and has been transferred to the TTC. The project is expected to open in the coming weeks. Service levels are: opening day, trains every 4m45s; after 6 months 3m30s. news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

Interesting stats from GO Transit’s 2025 Wrapped. What stands out is the Milton Line, once GO’s number 3 most-used route, has dropped to 5th. This is because of significant new weekend service being added to the Kitchener and Barrie Lines, whereas Milton has just peak service.

New maps this morning on a Toronto rocket train. TTC Line 5 Eglinton and Line 6 Finch West coming soon!

This weekend while the Barrie GO Line was shut down, crews installed a pedestrian tunnel at Bowie Ave for the under-construction Caledonia GO Station. This station will connect to Line 5 Eglinton Caledonia Station, making this area a great future multi-modal transit hub.

Bathurst Street #RapidTO at Queen Street. We love to see a better Toronto being built one bucket of paint at a time. #topoli

St. Clair West Station. We might be almost there.

Toronto’s newest flatiron, 1071 King, a rental building by Hullmark. As seen from the GO Kitchener Line.

Here is a video of GO Kitchener Line, Union Pearson Express, and Line 5 Eglinton trains operating at Mount Dennis Station. It will be one of the best-connected transit hubs in Toronto. It also includes a massive TTC bus terminal.

West of Mount Dennis, the Line 5 Eglinton West Extension is progressing. Here at Jane/Eglinton, we see the elevated guideway being built. This intersection will also be home to an elevated station (which will likely be called “Eglinton Flats”?).

Mount Dennis GO/UP Express station is officially open. A community without rapid transit options is suddenly only 16 mins away from downtown Toronto. Now, we wait for Line 5 Eglinton to open to “complete” this transit hub.

Any guesses where I’m headed?

Another Line 5 Eglinton observation re: speed. While driving, I “raced” a train between Sunnybrook Park Station and Pharmacy Station. We essentially kept pace with each other the entire trip, despite the train having to stop at stations along the way. Traffic was medium (6PM).

A silver lining: despite the westbound Line 5 Eglinton track being blocked at Golden Mile Station, light rail trains kept running. The line’s various crossover tracks meant that trains could “detour” around the problem area. Good to see.

Golden Mile Station on Line 5 Eglinton. How does anyone even pull off messing up so badly?

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!

A huge amount of transit construction in this picture, including: - a rebuilt Exhibition GO station 🚆 - a new Ontario Line subway station 🚇 - a tunnel boring machine launch shaft for the OL 🪏 Toronto’s Liberty Village neighbourhood is set to become extremely transit-connected

#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

This rules, let’s go Toronto!

First look 👀 at new #RapidTO transit priority installation on Bathurst south of Fort York. More white line painting to come, but a great start! What do you think?

Oh! Out of the blue, a motion from chair Myers to conduct a full scale review and scale up of transit signal priority in an attempt to speed up streetcars! You love to see it!!

New Confederation GO Station Opens, Expanding Service for Hamilton Commuters

Stupid Toronto-area drivers, case number 54378: truck driver drives into TTC St. Clair streetcar right-of-way, gets stuck blocking rush hour 512 and bus service. Absolute brain dead behaviour.

Toronto, 🇨🇦

Huge win for transit riders and a better city. Congrats to all involved on making this happen. It’s time to give the 509 Harbourfront, 510 Spadina, 511 Bathurst, and 512 St Clair streetcar routes 600-series designations to highlight that they have transit-only lanes. #topoli

The “official” future Greater Toronto Region transit map from Metrolinx, showing existing, underway, and planned transit projects.

I’ve always loved the TTC’s Queen’s Quay (Ferry Docks) Station. It’s unique because it’s the only underground streetcar station that’s not an interchange with the subway, and you cross the tracks at-grade to access the opposite platform.

Toronto’s new Biidaasige Park is excellent. Renaturalizing the mouth of the Don River, adding native plants, and creaking kilometres of new public trails was a monumental task, so congrats @waterfrontoronto.bsky.social!

Streetcars in their own lanes = bare minimum. Do this more Toronto.

Welcome to Toronto Allies and Morrison and congrats on your office opening!

Toronto angular plane rules are frustrating. Look at all that potential but unbuilt housing!

Nothing beats a Toronto summer

Salsa on St. Clair. The people yearn for open streets. #Toronto

Even though we always have room for improvement, nowhere else in the Americas has the sheer will to build transit the way Toronto and Ontario do. Pictured is an entire structure being built to protect the Ontario Line’s Osgoode station construction from the weather.

So neat how in Toronto you can wander down a random residential street and there’s just a streetcar parked there hanging out

The Guelph - Kitchener/Waterloo - London corridor has the chance to become its own city region with an orbit outside of Toronto. Even better, it has a lightly used rail line connecting the cities, and the Province already owns half of it.

GO Kitchener Line 4th tracking south of the CPKC flyunder progressing well, with new rails laid almost as far south as Bloor GO. Concrete ties are a nice touch as they reduce maintenance and are noticeably quieter. More tracks = more service.

Woodbine (Racetrack) GO station construction is now fully underway.

Happy Canada Day!

On super hot days like today, I especially appreciate the shadows that tall buildings cast. It’s nice to have a shaded side of the road. Don’t let NIMBYs tell you that this is a bug, it’s a feature!

“Newfoundland's trains are long gone, but they're still chugging along the tracks in Chile” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Give Toronto streetcars their own lanes everywhere!

Thorncliffe Park Station and Flemingdon Park Station on Toronto’s upcoming Ontario Line. Great examples of elevated metro stations, which hopefully inspires future elevated transit in Toronto and the surrounding region.

If this is how busy Toronto’s Union Station is in 2025, what will it be like in 2035? Toronto needs the Midtown GO Line and additional downtown shoulder stations ASAP.

Toronto-style bike lane barriers are great. Cheap and fast to deploy and they do an effective job of keeping cyclists safe.

Construction is starting for GO Transit’s Caledonia Station on the Barrie Line, which will connect to the soon-to-open Eglinton Crosstown/TTC Line 5.