Top transit priority should be fixing the speed of the Finch West LRT and the entire streetcar network (slowest in the world) Why ask for money to build another LRT line that will also suck.

surrey is at the current terminal of the expo line (20+ km away from downtown vancouver) and you'll see trains running every few minutes, lots of people getting on/off. makes you really think what a grade-separated rail line from toronto to mississauga city centre, for example, could do.

To put things in perspective for people from Toronto who don't realise how fast the SkyTrain is. The Expo line will take 65 minutes, roughly the same time the Berrie line will take from Aurora/Newmarket with infill stations. Only 15min longer than VMC to Union on line 1 during peak hours.

what happens when your rail transit planning doesn't account for the possibility of buses being useful

I didn't think that people lived long enough to have had a membership in the Asiatic Exclusion League

some parts of line 5 prove that a street median light rail can be fast when you design with one variable in mind: how frequent the LRT needs to stop along its route. (also, not pointlessly installing risk-averse CBTC on a street railway)

For some reason, lots of Americans believe that rail transit is inherently more useful and reliable than buses. We need to address this somehow because we have a lot of road space and buses and their dedicated lanes are cheap. There isn't a path to broad transit usage without them.

People gonna ask themselves “what problem in my life does Mayor Fry actually solve?

People will defend the Vancouver specials that a lot of these multiplexes would replace nevermind that if you look back at the contemporary discussion around the Vancouver specials they were just as vilified as ugly by the same type of people trying to preserve them toda.

Interesting video on Los Angeles quietly dropping fare enforcement on transit! “LA Metro voluntarily abandoned enforcement of rules. And replaced it with visibility-based tools that look tough but mostly don’t change behaviour.”

When someone in power is pushing for a mixed traffic streetcar in NA the actual solution every time for transit users is more bus service And if they are pushing for a median running "LRT" the solution is still more bus service but with some transit priority measures

First look at the Solaris trolly buses for Vancouver, interesting at least the prototype has 3 doors when I thought the TransLink order was for 2 doors magyarbusz.info/2026/03/08/m...

another longer-form post: I've become a streetcar pessimist in recent years, and this post lays out why urbanpdx.blog/no-more-stre...

Embracing death and failure as players is just as, and sometimes more, fulfilling as beating the BBG and succeeding

this is what it feels like to post on bluesky

Where a bunch of Vancouver-based housing talking heads advocate for bringing back the quota system of the residential floorspace cartel where Metro Vancouver organizes the member municipalities to keep housing artificially scarce... 😬😬😬 housingreset.ca/2026/02/25/c...

Hey everybody, we gotta get Justin McElroy to do this

KamCon is an absolute gem. Do not miss!

Looking back Transit City was such a ridiculous plan, basically feeding an already over capacity subway system with tons of LRTs while doing as little as possible for the DRL. Either the LRTs weren't supposed to actually drive ridership or they just wanted to collapse the subway

Vancouver housing politics is a bunch of well-housed people who prefer mountain views to the presence of other humans www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...

Isn't it nice to have multiple projects on the go so we can keep skilled labour in town working

Big kudos for putting yourself out there Peter! Very excited at the prospect of Peter getting the nomination and then getting elected. The values, deep knowledge and understanding, wit, and energy he brings will make a big difference on council.

I've spent years fighting for homes and a more affordable, equitable Vancouver. Now I want to take that fight to City Hall as your councillor. Go to www.PeterForCouncil.ca and join OneCity so you can support Peter For Council and help me get on the ballot! youtu.be/-d7WFFoqb0c

Anyone who says we don’t need zoning reform because we should just build subsidized housing should go watch a public hearing on any proposed project. Edmonton city council just wasted an entire day over adding 30 affordable units.

So lets see the realities of TSP in Toronto - 60+ days and no TSP improvement and no deadlines - City/TTC seem to feel the need to redefine "unconditional" rather than be honest with the public - Frequency limits green-light insertion - Will not commit to any red light truncation

Buses in Surrey are slow, indirect, overcrowded, and sometimes downright unpleasant to ride. We believe Surrey transit riders deserve better, so we’re proposing 3 big ideas which could improve your ride: youtube.com/shorts/BMZg9...

cariad.keigher.ca/2026/02/15/s... I had the privilege to visit a gondola that may be the future of transportation for those going to Burnaby Mountain. I wrote my thoughts on the whole thing plus there are photos of the thing within. 🥰

I like Zohran Mamdani and wish him every success. I'm one of many transit experts who would have supported him despite this one bad idea. But the @nytimes.com needs to start listening to actual transit experts, instead of trying to shout us down with well-meaning social justice vibes. 8/8

From the people that brought you "Where are the schools for all these new homes?" Coming soon to a public hearing near you "We should build less school"

Canada's so good at turning bus lines that have the ridership to justify a metro line into trams that have the ridership to justify a metro line

Delta Green microcon infests KamCon in British Columbia in September 2026.

Toronto's new Eglinton rail line shows the awakening of a new consciousness of what kind of city Toronto is. New from me: humantransit.org/2026/02/toro...

I've been thinking about how to modify the at-grade portion of the #EglintonLRT so that the experience & operations are more like the underground portion. I've put some words and drawings together & I'm happy to hear your thoughts! #TOpoli #Transit #TTC kevinrupasinghe.substack.com/p/improving-...

There is no key factor, it’s a lot of small things that add up. And if you write off every one of them as “not the key factor,” you end up with…Toronto streetcars as they are.

FastTrackTO is a single issue advocacy group (made upof @englishrail.bsky.social, @rmtransit.bsky.social, Narayan Donaldson and @optimistmatt.bsky.social) pushing to address slow transit in Toronto, particularly the downtown streetcars.

Episode 2 with special guest @rmtransit.bsky.social is out! What counts as transit advocacy? We discuss the nuances and challenges of building a transit advocacy movement, culture, and education. Available on our website dwelltime.ca which also has links to multiple platforms!

We need a story on the history of low floor tram projects/proposals in Canada, Transit City, Surrey LRT, the Valley Line and Green line. How we let planners, politicians, and business groups prioritise aesthetics and real estate values over transit users mobility needs

​I want to thank Christy Clark for forcing the transit referendum, whose failure delayed the Surrey LRT long enough for Doug McCallum to be elected and cancel it for the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain at the last minute. The butterfly effect of bad politicians can end up leading to better transit outcomes

​I want to thank Christy Clark for forcing the transit referendum, whose failure delayed the Surrey LRT long enough for Doug McCallum to be elected and cancel it for the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain at the last minute. The butterfly effect of bad politicians can end up leading to better transit outcomes

Ah yes, the two genders, Tall and Sprawl

My new podcast DWELL TIME IS OUT! Join Denis Agar and Rodney Chan in their discussions around transit in Canada. From buses to trains and everything else transit, learn about advocacy happening in Canadian cities and beyond. Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/d... Spotify link below:

It's really hard to take the municipalities seriously about these concerns when one of the largest "downloaded" cost is the Employer Health Tax that every employer has to pay www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I regularly walk by 8 and 10 storey buildings that are next to low rise. It really wouldn't matter if they were 12 instead.

The problem is that "smaller metro area" where a tram-like LRT can perform the role of higher-order transit spine in North America means places like Québec (barely 1M) or Waterloo (1/2 M). Everything else is either too small and weakly centered for rail or too big for low-speed LRTs.

Also more TOD, better service levels, more hospitable and modern transit, cultural stuff etc. but those are big

also bored. here's the canadian cities (from apta) vancouver = 0.507 calgary = 0.410 victoria = 0.278 edmonton = 0.264 winnipeg = 0.259 have to dig around for more ridership data for these two given all the agencies in the metro area, but they're at least this much: toronto >0.539 montreal >0.424

A lot of Blueskiers are going to dismiss this observation because of the source, but it is correct. I'll just add that I don't think there's anything special about single-family homes that means they should never be rentals, any more than there's a rule that multifamily units should never be condos.

It's no wonder that Toronto transit is such a mess when half of the people advocating for transit are happy with the mediocrity of getting a bigger bus with no improvement on speed or frequency and arguing with those advocating for actual meaningful improvements for transit riders.

Why I’m Less Excited About Trams Than You youtu.be/JLzkcfGfnDg