Barrie has a new transit terminal! 🚌 The Barrie Allandale Transit Terminal provides regional transit connections between Simcoe County, Northern Ontario, and the GTA. It has 10 bus bays, indoor waiting areas and improved accessibility features.

Many in the comments section of this post agree this fictional display board (for a movie shoot) on a TTC platform is better than what's currently offered.

line 6 finch west begins revenue service demonstration this saturday, the final stretch to opening. this process takes 30 days, meaning you can expect to ride the LRT in the 4th-5th week of october (barring any issues). so, line 6 is now officially ahead of line 5 to open. made that bet in 2022 🙃

Why is it so hard to get our regional transit agency to actually explain what is in the way of them providing desperately needed service like weekend trains to Kitchener or — in this case — express trains on Lakeshore East

Metrolinx claims that they can't reintroduce express trains on the Lakeshore East line since the 3rd track is out of service. That's a lie: most of the 3rd track is still in service and there's room for express trains ontariotrafficman.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/go-transit-lies-about-express-trains/

Can't wait for 15 min all day service on Lakeshore West. Counterpeak train is crammed to the gills and I had to stand from Burlington to Toronto.

Did you know that ION Stage One only had a 1.2% contingency ($10 million)? On ION Stage 2, contingency and cost escalation make up nearly 40% of the $4.3 billion price tag. Research has shown that high contingency and cost escalation are leading drivers of our insanely high construction costs

According to a 2023 document, this is the cost breakdown of the $4.3billion planned construction cost of the ION Stage 2 LRT. 56.4% Professional Services/Hard Costs 22.4% Cost Escalation 16.7% Contingency 4.5% Property Acquisition

Stage 2 ION LRT Initial Business Case results are out: The full LRT alignment has the highest ridership and economics benefits, but also the highest capital and operations costs. Presentation: pub-regionofwaterloo.escribemeetings.com/filestream.a...

Thrilled to see the TTC recommend fare capping as part of the Ridership Growth Strategy, something that we have long called for as a common-sense solution to making transit more affordable! This would replace an expensive monthly pass, that you need to pay for upfront on the same day as your rent.

📣 We’re advocating for the extension of ION to Cambridge. Extending ION will spark economic opportunities, promote transit-oriented growth and provide a seamless trip from Kitchener and Waterloo. Share your thoughts in a survey or join a public engagement session at: www.engagewr.ca/stage2ION

The last major contract for the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension was signed today. This contract is a progressive design build P3 and covers the stations, rails, and systems

Excellent article today in UrbanToronto regarding the King Street priority corridor. After 7 years of transit priority, the street remains unchanged, with no timeline for when improvements are coming. This is low hanging fruit and the city is failing big time. urbantoronto.ca/news/2025/08...

Santiago de Chile has an ongoing expansion program for its metro that will add 75 (seventy-five!!) km to its network by 2033 for 7.3 billion USD. It's like adding more than a second métro of Montréal-worth for 50% more of the projected cost of adding 6km to the blue line.

Are you passionate about improving transit in your community? More Transit Southern Ontario (MTSO) is looking for City Leads to join our team! What you’ll do: 🏡 Engage with transit riders 📢 Advocate for better transit policies 💬 Lead impactful campaigns Learn more at moretransit.ca!

With some minor changes to how we design road networks, new North American suburbs can have very good bus networks. We wrote about Almere and the design decisions that make their busways possible here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/city-2...

Did you know that the Waterfront East LRT has predesignated land for its transit right of way at Ookwemin Minising? This proactive measure not only helps reduce costs for future construction of the LRT & can serve as a valuable lesson for projects throughout the province.

finch west LRT is currently being tested ahead of opening. like its counterpart, the eglinton crosstown, it's stuck behind left-turning traffic. note the transit signal showing red while lines of left turning cars advance. 40,000 people are projected to use this line daily when it opens.

Here are the full proposed changes, 10 and 11 year olds will continue to get discounted fares at $2 per ride. Senior monthly passes will also be significantly increasing, more than doubling from $49 to $108

Horrible decision. Will result in less ridership, lower revenues, more driving and worse vehicle congestion (with all the corresponding costs and consequences). Either they don’t understand that, or they’re ok with all that.

Ottawa is planning to scrap youth monthly passes as a result of funding issues. 11-19 year olds will now have to pay $4 per trip without any path to discount with monthly passes. Not only is this one of the most expensive adult fares in Ontario, it's the most expensive youth fare. 1/2

Metrolinx is ordering another 97 coach buses on top of the 80 it ordered earlier this year. www.mcicoach.com/mci-awarded-...

Earlier this month, Metrolinx laid off all their staff at the GO contact centre and outsourced it to a company with a contract valued at $28 million for an unspecified amount of time. The contractor was caught using AI to respond to customer concerns last week. 1/2 www.thestar.com/news/gta/met...

The year is 2025 and Metrolinx is still deciding whether it should run more frequent trains instead of longer trains like they run today.......

Coldplay isn't playing in Toronto anymore, but we've got some major inspiration to outline a few issues with transit in the region right now. #kisscam

📢 Arushi Nath, a high school student & MTSO member, delivered a moving deputation at Toronto’s Executive Committee. She spoke from experience about delays on the 511 Bathurst streetcar and called on the City to build RapidTO lanes on Dufferin & Bathurst: youtu.be/MChUy9uSYNc?...

Jonathan Lee, Co-Executive Director of More Transit Southern Ontario, joined CityNews to spotlight a growing concern: GO train service near Downsview Park Station isn’t keeping pace with the crowds heading to concerts at Rogers Stadium.

We explored this a bit more on CityNews today with insights from @femwriter.bsky.social, @moretransitso.bsky.social and Liberal MPP Rob Cerjanec. All say there are lessons to be learned here. #Toronto #Ontario #GOTransit #TOpoli #ONpoli toronto.citynews.ca/2025/07/10/g...

Do you have footage at Rogers Stadium while taking transit (GO or TTC)? DM us or email [email protected]! Tell us your experience below. What do you think could be improved?👇 #rogersstadium #gotransit

Support for Dufferin and Bathurst transit lanes is overwhelming, so why is the city watering down proposals for these projects? 1/2

The Town of Halton Hills is undertaking a study to develop a Transit Implementation Plan for on-demand transit, conventional transit, and specialized transit services, over the next 10 years. Fill in the survey by Friday, July 18th, 2025: letstalkhaltonhills.ca/transit-impl...

The Exhibition TOC has gotten denser, an updated proposal revealed in June changes the proposal to a max of 54 storeys and adds nearly 900 additional units from the original proposal next to one of the cities biggest transit hubs.🧵1/8

GO Transit extends far outside the GTA, covering an area with the population of Switzerland! And it could extend further! On top of improving frequency within the GTA we also need to improve speed on longer-distance services. Yet Metrolinx cancelled the track speed increases proposed by ONxpress.

A station at Woodbine GO is finally under construction. This station located at Woodbine racetrack will likely be a major transfer point between express, local, and trains to the airport once GO expansion is complete. 1/3

of the suburban underground Toronto Scarborough Subway Extension has ballooned to 765 million INT$/km this making the project one of the most expensive metro expansion projects on earth...

Toronto's Scarborough Subway Extension a 7.8 km long suburban metro project had its cost balloon from 5.5 billion to 10.2 billion CAD. This is incorrect as the former is only the cost of construction while the latter includes operating and maintaining the extension for 30 years....

According to Metrolinx's documents for their June 26th board meeting. It seems that the cost to deliver the Scarborough Subway Extension may have increased to $10.2 billion. A large increase from the $5.5 billion initial projected cost. This puts the project at $1.3 billion/km

Good news! The Eglinton Crosstown is one step closer to opening with operations being handed over to the TTC, who will operate the service. The line is expected to open in September

Doug Ford has recently stated that the Eglinton Crosstown is still on track to open in September and that he expects it will be handed off to the TTC in a few weeks. The LRT, which is now $1 billion overbudget, has suffered from countless delays with little communication from Metrolinx.

Point 2 is the mother of all problems in many Canadian transit projects: the scope is unclear and keeps moving And that's because there is a misunderstanding about what "planning" is for. It should be the process where you recognize the needs, devise scenarios that can meet these needs and pick one

"Minimum Viable Product" might be the best unvoluntary embodiment of that side of Canadian culture which can be summarized in being "content with absolute mediocrity"

It's a depressing time in Toronto - a city that once had the continent's most ambitious city-building initiative. This transformation had 3 KEY PILLARS: 1. RapidTO 2. GO Expansion 3. Ontario Line Two pillars have been watered down beyond recognition - DEVASTATING for the region. Here's why: 1/🧵

We'll be producing and making a detailed Youtube video to hopefully release in the near future. Going into what was covered in this article as well as additional items (such as the trainshed fiasco). To raise as much awareness as possible to hopefully steer this project back in the right direction

It's unbelievable that over a decade after GO Expansion (then GO RER) was announced this attitude this exists among some Metrolinx staff. And it seems that people with this attitude are the ones driving the core decisions

A depressing but unsurprising story of the DB-Metrolinx divorce I don't know who needs to hear this, but if Canadian politicians want to improve in the fields where we aren't a frontrunner (e.g. transit ), they need to get rid of the current class of managers and their backward-looking culture

This is a must read article detailing what has been going on behind the scenes at the GO expansion project. Over the past few years, GO expansion plans have been significantly downscaled due to conflict between DB and Metrolinx and rising construction costs.

In our latest video, we're explaining what's remaining in order to open the Eglinton Crosstown LRT in Toronto, a long-delayed project that was originally supposed to open in 2021 (if you didn't know, we're 2025 right now): youtu.be/_uQ8BVxr7XY?...

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.

York Region is looking for your input on the planned 6.3-kilometre Jane Street BRT corridor between Highway 7 and Major Mackenzie Drive. This corridor services 12,000 daily passenger trips and is projected to service over 20,500 daily passenger trips by 2035. Links in bio to give your input.