Our latest walking, biking, and transit news, including a final call for applicants for Regional Chair:

Orange e-scooters and e-bikes in Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge are being replaced by Lime. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

Today is the first day of permanent GO train service to Stratford. What we need now is for Metrolinx to purchase the rail corridor and upgrade track to increase speed. Stratford -> Kitchener currently takes 53 minutes, but it can be under 30 minutes with simple track upgrades.

The latest for Waterloo Region, including a roundabout safety pilot survey and next week's first weekend train trips to Stratford:

Reminder - fill out Kitchener’s survey for their Transportation & Mobility Plan by tomorrow (July 3)

The latest news, with a feedback opportunity on Kitchener's mobility plan and Kitchener's official plan up for approval:

From @tritag.ca: The City of Kitchener is putting together a new Transportation and Mobility Plan, and the city has a draft plan questionnaire open until July 3. www.engagewr.ca/connectedkit...

Due to planned maintenance, there will be no ION light rail service on Sunday, June 28 from start of service to 1 p.m. Shuttle buses will serve all stations. Visit grt.ca for more details.

The latest Waterloo Region walking, biking, and transit news, with feedback opportunity on Elmira sidewalk clearing and Kitchener's new Transportation and Mobility Plan:

The latest news and calls to action about Waterloo Region walking, biking, and transit:

Awesome day for @citykitchener.bsky.social staff, volunteers, advocates, city councilors, and the mayor to celebrate the launch of the city’s newly upgraded, designated, and nicely-signed cross-town Route 1!

Get caught up on the latest Waterloo Region walking, biking, and transit news!

We're going to keep up the weekly pace. Here's the latest about streets, transit, and the shape of our cities in Waterloo Region:

We're going to keep up the weekly pace. Here's the latest about streets, transit, and the shape of our cities in Waterloo Region:

Plenty of spots still available for Waterloo Region!

Paris’ RER is a perfect example of solving phone call problems. Instead of duplicating infrastructure because different agencies controlled it, Paris made sharing work. It saved a fortune and created Europe’s most impressive regional rail network. open.substack.com/pub/infrasto...

The news about streets, transit, and the shape of our cities in Waterloo Region for the last week or so:

Here’s the latest in walking, biking, and transit news for Waterloo Region from the last two weeks!

The City of Kitchener has been awarded gold status 🥇 by the Bicycle Friendly Communities (BFC) Program 🚲, administered by the Share the Road Cycling Coalition.

Why is Stage 2 of the Waterloo ION LRT so expensive, when the first phase of the project was reasonably cheap?

The first Jane’s Walks of the weekend start tonight! This one looks at the passenger railway past and future (i.e. ION light rail!) of Preston in Cambridge:

Buses are still running tomorrow!

ION light rail has been intended to help guide growth to a corridor well served by transit, but an important effect is helping the station areas become more walkable communities even without taking the train

Here's what's up this month on walking, biking, and transit in Waterloo Region. There's a lot!

I have been working on this one For A While, I hope local policy/politics people and transit cost nerds anywhere take a look

Why does ION Stage 2 cost 5x more per km than the original project, and as much as subways cost to build 20 years ago? @tritag.ca analyzed the data to find out why, looking through documents containing cost breakdowns for the original project and Stage 2.

Our new IONizeWR article is a deep dive into the evolution of plans and costs for ION Stage 2:

Stratford GO Station reopens for service on July 6, 2026! One round trip will be extended from Kitchener GO per day. This is the 72nd GO Transit station, and the only GO Station to be located outside the Greater Golden Horseshoe region.

Our newest episode is out! Rodney & guest Damian reminisce about lessons learned on their past campaign successes, preventing cuts to buses and ION LRT service, and reinstating a late-night bus! We also discuss the ALTO opposition and what meaningful consultation would actually entail. Links below!

The first “reverse trips” to and from Kitchener GO get rolling in a couple weeks! These new express trips are very welcomed options for riders 🛤️

The Record today covers our ION speed improvement ideas, and the Region’s response. Our full analysis — without the ION skepticism — is here:

The juxtaposition of these two stories really tells a deeper story of our transportation priorities.

Excited to see all levels of government work together to fund more LRT! Let's keep the same energy up for Stage 2 ION LRT to Cambridge in Waterloo Region!

We should get a whole lot more GO trains, but in the meantime there's no good reason we don't have regular all-day/all-week GO buses between KW and Guelph, or between Cambridge and Guelph for that matter. Thanks to MPPs @aislinnclancy.bsky.social and @mikeschreiner.bsky.social for pushing on this!

Guelph and Kitchener are 25 kilometres apart. Why does it take so long to transit between them? We chatted with transit advocate @mdruker.app about the importance of intercity transit and how we can make it easier and more affordable to travel between communities in Ontario.

We had a blast at our last event! Thank you everyone who came out, and we hope to see more of you next time!

The latest news, engagement opportunities, and (this week) YouTube videos relevant to Waterloo Region transportation:

Join us for a transit/urbanism themed boardgame afternoon Sunday, March 15th 2-5pm! DM for location.

🇨🇦 Bike infrastructure is a low cost, high impact solution for housing & health. But $500M in federal funding is now at risk. If approvals aren't issued now, we lose the 2026 construction season. TAKE ACTION: Email your MP by March 13! ✉️ EN: bit.ly/VCBatfletterEN ✉️ FR: bit.ly/VCBatflettrefr

The new CAO for the Region of Waterloo is Darshpreet Bhatti, who was the longtime project lead for the implementation of ION stage 1. Hopefully this is a good sign for getting ION stage 2 and beyond built.

What's happening in Waterloo Region transportation and the latest news:

Reminder to any ION enjoyers who haven't read this to do so (and to subscribe at tritag.ca/subscribe)

Glad to have had the full support of Council for this work last night! I look forward to the future report ahead of next season.

If you’ve tried to catch a bus this snowy winter and had snow blocking your way on or off the bus, I hear you. Next season, we must do better to keep bus stops accessible year round. ➡️ Learn more, below, about my motion coming to Council this week to improve bus stop snow clearing ❄️🪏🚌

Kitchener GO was bumpin! This was one of two weekend Kitchener GO train trips we get today. We need more ASAP!

ION is good, and it could be better. Here's how.

You can just watch buses and trains move across the city