Dec 29, 1977: the TTC introduces the first Canadian Light Rail Vehicle to media assembled at the Hillcrest Shops. The CLRV had just been unloaded from a railway flat car on the CN service track, on the north side of CP's North Toronto Subdivision. 1/3

The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "Well done," she says. "By pointing out the small ways certain outfits don't follow outdated rules, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home.

When do we get a Heated Rivalry Heritage Minute

Hey how come we've heard nothing about the Ontario Liberal leadership in like 4 months? Is anyone even running? #onpoli

Welcome back to Canada, President Zelenskyy. Today in Halifax, we committed critical new support to help Ukraine end Russia’s war of aggression, and to recover and rebuild. When peace comes — and it will come — Canada will be there for the Ukrainian people. Slava Ukraini. 🇨🇦🇺🇦

unironically a good idea

An absolutely masterful explanation of the odyssey that lead Toronto from being a transit leader to a city opening rail lines slower than buses, hard comparisons against asian cities that build subways for the same prices, and a possible path forward (also puns): substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Anyone else’s family have a Christmas competition about who has the most/least speeding tickets? 🙈 #onpoli

Quebec fandom over, gotta move to Europe to escape anglo cost disease.

Powered by wishful thinking. But Olivia Chow has the opening to improve the entire tram network at a moment when no one would be dumb enough to oppose fixing it

Merry Christmas from Canada

I have not been shy on my coverage of transit issues in Toronto. With the disastrous opening of the Finch West LRT in early December, I have some thoughts from Hong Kong using my historical experiences with Toronto in this longform post.

Happy Holidays?? You mean Heated Rivalry eve? 👉👈

"The 38-year-old condo manager said he used to volunteer at the Toronto Railway Museum" Rail nerd FTW

Rode Line 6 again off-peak as an experiment to see how much faster service could be with optimisation. Trip time: 41 min Dwell from lights: 11 min Dwell from schedule padding: 4 min Actual run time: 26 min Increase the speed limit, and I'd say we could safely do 25 min off-peak/30 min peak.

From the Metro Toronto Planning Board's 1959 draft Official Plan (voted down by Metro Council). You could not say something this obvious in Toronto's Official Plan anymore.

Someone tell me I can’t watch Heated Rivalry on VIA rail I need to hear it from a friend

Since I had today off, I finally got the chance to ride the new Finch West LRT a.k.a. Line 6. To add a twist to this journey, I did a return trip via bike share to find out which was faster given early reports of the LRT being slow. #BikeTO #TTC #TOpoli www.twowheeledpolitics.ca/2025/12/i-fo...

"Constance Williams, who lives near infill development, says she’s prepared to chain herself to a tree to stop an empty home from being torn down and turned into an infill eight-plex." edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/12/16/w...

She's back!!

Pour one out for buyers of $3M+ homes in Rosedale who are not wealthy apparently.

naive question: does saxe understand buyer pays, not seller, for LTT? because if you're buying into rosedale definitionally you can afford the LTT increase and this comment doesn't make sense.

Here me out: just ban left turns on arterials.

Our streetcars are getting a boost! Council just voted to speed up our LRTs and streetcars with changes to signal priority, left-turn restrictions, and more. I'm looking forward to the City Manager's plan to improve streetcar speed and reliability early next year -- on Line 6 and elsewhere! 👏

I would like to read your “Transit signal priority won, what next?” article please! #topoli

"I believe rapid transit must be rapid," says Councillor Jamaal Myers, the TTC chair. He says slow speeds on the Finch LRT and streetcar routes just cause people to quit transit and drive instead. He says the "political will" is finally here for real transit signal priority.

A large chunk of my life's work is to get more people involved and paying attention to municipal civics but then I watch a few minutes of Toronto City Council and I want to renounce everything I've done.

New billion-dollar transit lines shouldn't get stuck for *this long* waiting at red lights. That's why we're happy to see a motion coming to City Council this week to implement stronger transit signal priority and other measures to speed up LRTs - but it won't happen without your voice! 1/2

25km/hr average speed or remove the ostensible Lines 5, 6 and 8 from the map entirely because otherwise they are just slow-assed streetcars making lines on a pretty map to pretend like we have a real network of subways. #TOpoli @mayoroliviachow.ca

#Toronto man outruns newly-opened Finch LRT by 18 minutes Mac Bauer, known as the 514runner, has been racing TTC vehicles for the past year www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Tired: The LRT is just a streetcar Inspired: What if we go the other way - (from palopatrol on r/TTC)

if the city truly believed in "vision zero" for finch avenue it would make transit the fast, compelling option to get people out of cars. also, ban a bunch of left turns. also, force tankers to use keele to access the oil terminals. but instead we get the dumbest idea: slowing down the tram

Thanks to the signaling system, Line 6 drivers can hardly ever drive faster than 30km/h all in the name of safety. The vehicle on a fixed guideway in the middle of the street needs to travel at half the speed limit. Meanwhile cars and big trucks close to the curb can travel at 60km/h.

As if bluesky nerds need more reason to become a oui-aboo

Something few people discuss when it comes to unreliable TTC headways is operator behaviour. I just witnessed my 504 operator leave Dundas West 5 mins early, creating a 15 min gap in service on the A branch and artificially inducing bunching down the line. Needs to be cracked down on.

Q: how can we make the street below safer for people outside of cars? toronto transportation services: 💡 force the LRT to operate 20 km/h slower than the adjacent traffic! vision zero! 🥰

Good morning Toronto

Obviously no one from Toronto is in a position to criticize Calgary since we didn't even pass the citywide sixplex reform that our HAF agreement required. But I feel for Calgary advocates who worked on zoning reform, saw it succeed and people then said "Too much housing. Roll it back."

The snails are so cute Also they should put in Line 5, and just have it be permanently snails.

Think this is the right first step and hope they watched that Paige Saunders video on it. youtu.be/OvcHSKud1Z0?...

Plug for TTCMap.ca, the best source of your planned weekly subway outages and shutdowns, happy weekend

Six seasons and a movie!! In the darkest times Canada will stand strong

Enemy of the free world.

I understand the hypothesis. NIMBYism prioritizes existing residents over future ones. Rent control also does this when it is strict enough to discourage new supply. Both are incumbency-prioritizing views, but I'm not surprised that they can be separated. 🧵

Learned some illuminating things about Line 6 from City/TTC staff at today’s board meeting that’s worth sharing: 1. Current run time on the Finch LRT is around 56 minutes end to end.

The TTC Board discussed the Finch LRT opening and problems at its meeting today, Dec. 10. My comments: stevemunro.ca/2025/12/10/t...

campaign slogans are my passion. only posting this one cuz I'm proud of it 🤭🤭

With billions of tax dollars spent, years of delays and businesses and communities impacted by construction, new Rapid Transit lines must be able to move faster than the buses they’ve replaced.