Just to put into perspective the slowness of this line you can do a round trip from Bois-Franc to Gare Centrale on the REM, the same distance as the Finch LRT, before the LRT would finish a one way trip

Vancouver needs real bus lanes! I'm convinced that they would give temendous bang for buck for improving quality of life and getting people out of traffic. We could learn a lot from Taipei's central bus lanes. Check them out! youtu.be/C6NXrJxx1kg?...

It looks like Montreal is spending money on a train for the sake of having a train. At this point they should just invest the billions into bonds and use the interest to run more and better bus service and end up with a better outcome. youtu.be/EsreQJoF3Ow?...

since REM opened this weekend, this is all i can think about. toronto has been building a smaller, 'lower-order' transit project that costs significantly more and is taking twice as long to complete 🫠

Montreal’s Biggest REM Expansion Yet! (with Reece Martin)

the biggest section of the REM (and imo the most important phase) opened today, basically extending a highway-median suburban branch into a full-fledged 50 km north-south metro across the montreal region montreal now has a 119-kilometre metro system with 87 stations, by far the largest in canada!

Azalea officially turns two today, but I'm pretty sure she entered her "terrible twos" early. I've heard a lot about the "terrible twos" and what to expect from her, but I gotta say that attempting to cross the floor — twice — was not on my bingo card. 😅

The only people that should be allowed to make the ostensibly binary technicall approval of permit and zoning compliance are municipal staff, not independent certified professionals. To do so would destroy local planning, at least according to the UMBC and the local land lift goblin

The US political system is just baffling viewed from abroad. Utterly baffling.

Our bus network redesigns are increasing ridership! humantransit.org/2025/11/our-...

New post on inclusionary zoning, for my housing literature review. IZ requires developers to provide subsidized homes in their new apartment buildings. Without providing compensation to developers, this unfunded IZ is just a tax on new housing. 1/

The fact that this isn't considered a huge problem by the TTC and Toronto city council is pathetic.

bsky.app/profile/nott... Our failures are self-inflicted wounds. The tech is fine.

Disappointing that this isn’t coming with bus stop consolidation. Every stop should have a shelter, but we should not have so many stops. Now we’re investing in some stops that shouldn’t exist, which will make it more difficult to remove them.

The purpose of transit is to actually move people around efficiently, and speed is part of that. Spending billions of dollars for a capacity increase and a bit more reliability should be a huge scandal. I'm so glad that Surrey ended up with the SkyTrain instead of LRT.

Went up to Finch Avenue, a long fear I have had is that the new light rail would be slower than the buses it replaced, and it seems like that may well be the case. So many decision makers in Toronto are drivers that they don’t realize that people might take public transit because it’s fast

7pm on a sunday in vancouver. just missed a train while going up the escalator. the next train is now, 2 min, and 5 min. i love being in this city 💜

A Redditor made a graph of the percent of population of US and Canada metro areas over 1 million that live in a given density. When they ordered them by average density the lowest ranked Canadian metro area, Edmonton, was ranked 14th between Miami and Washington. 6 of the top 15 were Canadian metros

Spending elevated SkyTrain money to build a LRT that just improves capacity and maybe beats the old bus at rush hour travel is an achievement.

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Very mild take, Google needs to figure out some heuristics, use some combination of speed and frequency, for what transit service they show. Having the WCE on the map is much less useful than the RapidBuses. The tangel of streetcars in Toronto is less legible and you might as well show all bus lines

The BCNDP gave the municipalities a lot of leeway to implement SSMHU regulations in good faith, in response many of them chose to do everything they could to get in the way. Here are a good list of things the province can do to rectify that.

People question whether building more housing can lower prices, but I think it’s useful to flip that around and ask: are you saying that you can block housing without pushing up prices? Is that plausible? Can I block the production of other goods or services with no effect on prices?

Should we add hundreds of businesses to the rapid transit network, or zero? 🚍 Should we route BRT through Burnaby Heights, or along Boundary Rd? They're the same question. Tell TransLink that routing rapid transit away from key destinations is a dumb idea 🤦 movementyvr.ca/release-tell...

Fare capping is one of the simplest ways to make transit easier to use and equitable for those who can't afford to float a month's transit fares upfront. It was my biggest disappointment that TransLink didn't even give it much more than a foot note in their fare review

It's telling that the Gilmore routing for the Metrotown-North Shore BRT has no value since the only benefit they can list, other than direct service to the Gilmore area that is a quick 2 minute ride from Brentwood, is connections to 3 buses that it will connect to anyways via the Hastings routing.

I guess having to have municipal water hookup helps rein in the worst spraw

In which the independent engineering consultants hired by VTA accuse the VTA of sandbagging efforts to trim back the design of the BART-to-San Jose extension. PDF pg 111 -- santaclaravta.iqm2.com/Citizens/Fil...

Like really the Toronto subway takes 45 minutes to go the 21km from Vaughn to Union.

“we don't make the rules here in Port Coquitlam!” is what the rule-makers of Port Coquitlam said

Ok anyone who is advocating for trams/streetcars in Vancouver needs to come with an actual proposal and not just coasing on "trams are cool" vibes.

WE FLEW ON A SEAPLANE!!!!!!!! youtu.be/KdvJhd9PXg0

Begging for bus lanes on 49th Ave to get 1/2 as much attention (The 49 moves twice as many people as @viarailcanada.bsky.social in a single day)

Metro Vancouver has released a new parking-related study. The study suggests that the cost to a household, per parking space, requires households to have an additional $31,000.00 a year in income to qualify for the mortgage. metrovancouver.org/boards/Regio...

Seeing discourse out there that Canada does not have a TTRPG convention. Um, have you looked? We might not have GenCon, but the shows that exist are doing good work: TCTC, Breakout, FallCon, KamCon, Gamitoba, etc. It breaks my brain that people ignore shows that exist.

To anyone else waiting patiently for @milesintransit.com to release his cross Canada bus video and Vancouver content here is a CBC interview with him on the Seabus youtu.be/CY0KaUF8C4w?...

It's amazing how many homes we can build if we let people actually use the majority of the lot. And we wonder why we are in a housing crisis

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Provincial governments should require any OCP/area plans to actually rezone property in line with the plan. We spent way too much time redoing work that was already supposedly done for what reason?

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Kamcon is excited Toren @torenatkinson.bsky.social‬ is returning as a guest the year! The lead singer of theCthulhu rock band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Illustrator of Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, and D&D. Toren co-designed the award-winning TTRPG Spaceship Zero. linktr.ee/torenatkinson

Montreal gets the extra fun problem of anglo suburbs in a francophone city, BC could maybe use a little bit of amalgamation but I am willing to live with the current situation over a mega-municipality

wish we could get people to discuss @chittimarco.bsky.social’s work on bus prioritization with the same fervor as fare policy. marcochitti.substack.com/p/down-with-...

Looking forward to sorting out the RPGs for this year's con

A real life example of how busy Brampton Transit can be! This was at the first stop on the route after 11 at night. Two more buses came right behind. We took the third, which still had many seats filled. Frequent service attracts riders. Would love the 407 route back, though!

This article's a great illustration of the arguments that city councils will use to oppose density, and why provinces need to step in. tricitiesdispatch.com/coquitlam-be...

Invest in buses! Vancouver's 82km RapidBus network moves 81,500 people daily at 24.5km/h with just modest queue jumping and bus lanes. This outperforms Portland's MAX light rail in overall and per-kilometer ridership for little infrastructure cost, if you are willing to invent in operation funds.

Looking into it the Finch West LRT is going to have an average speed of just over 16kh/h. Vancouver's RapidBuses are all faster than that on average. The LRT will be more reliable speed wise and needs the capacity but for $2.5b you'd think being faster than a decent express bus would be a priority