Metrolinx is hosting multiple open houses throughout June where you can comment on the designs of Scarborough Subway Extension stations. Dates, locations, and the presentation slides can be found in the link below: www.metrolinx.com/en/projects-...

This is a perfect example of one of the reasons we have absurd transit costs. We can only compare ourselves to other Canadian and American agencies such as the MTA, who consistently have some of the worlds highest construction cost. Platform doors in Europe are 10x cheaper.

It appears the new target opening for the Yonge North Subway Extension is 2034. Not surprising considering this project took several more years in planning compared to our other projects. Tunnelling is expected to begin later this year or early next year. www.thestar.com/news/gta/met...

Infrastructure Ontario has released their plans for the 680 unit transit oriented community at Martin Grove LRT station. This is 1 of 4 TOCs planned at Eglinton Crosstown West extension stations. This development will have dedicated indoor bike parking for transit riders. 1/2

The federal and provincial governments are investing $11.6 million to buy 10 new diesel replacement buses as well as software to better manage gasoline usage. news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

Good News! Starting May 24, TTC streetcars will now be able to enter signalized intersections and crosswalks at the speed limit. They are currently required to slow down to 25km/h. Some speed restrictions along the Queensway will also be removed.

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:

GO to Stratford is a great idea but they need to repair the rails to make it more useful. It shouldn't take 52 min to get from Stratford to Kitchener. In 1979 that only took 30 min. Most of the line has a 30 mph (48 km/h) limit due to poor maintenance. The limit used to be 70 mph (112 km/h).

Stratford GO train schedule from MPP Matthew Rae Weekday AM: 6:16 -> 7:08 (52 minutes) Stratford -> Kitchener. 7:08 -> 8:47 (99 minutes) Kitchener -> Union Weekday PM: 4:52 -> 6:36 (104 minutes) Union -> Kitchener. 6:36 -> 7:28 (52 minutes) Kitchener -> Stratford. 1/2

Exciting News! The Kitchener GO line is being permanently extended to Stratford, with 1 daily round trip 7 days a week starting on July 6th. We have been calling for permanent GO service even since the pilot ended over 2 years ago. news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

Tunnelling on the Ontario Line is officially begun. The downtown tunnels are expected to take 2 years to construct and finish sometime in 2028.

The 1km of bus lane implemented as part of RapidTO Queens Quay East has significantly decreased runtime variability and travel times and increased ridership on route 114. We must roll out RapidTO city wide, no matter the political implication.

🚀 Canadians have been reaching for the stars, but we're still grappling with the basics like building public transit infrastructure affordably. By reforming procurement, strengthening in-house expertise, and adopting global best practices, we can bring costs down & build the transit we need.

Notable chart included in a new TTC Board report about improving streetcar speeds, comparing stop distance and average speeds on Toronto routes versus surface rail routes in other cities. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

Discussion about the not yet funded Eglinton East LRT has heated up. This project is often framed as bringing Scarborough the transit it finally deserves, but will it really? The LRT will be slower and less frequent than existing bus lanes. 1/7 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNGb...

Under Construction Line 1 Ottawa East/West light metro Extension: $2.8 billion (2026 dollars), 28km, 3.4km of tunnel, 17 stations, $100 million/km Waterfront East LRT: $3 billion, $790million/km, 3.8km ($900m Union expansion, $1.3B street running section, $400m Cherry connection)

Sheppard Subway: $2 billion (2026 dollars), $360 million/km, 5.5km, fully tunneled Waterfront East LRT: $3 billion, $790million/km, 3.8km

It's important to recognize the Waterfront East LRT is estimated to cost nearly 2x more than any Metrolinx LRT project. At 800million/km it's more comparable in price to Metrolinx subway projects. This could very well be the most expensive LRT project in the world. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Not only did the hours of operation for Line 5 get extended earlier this week, trains are now running at the full 80km/h top speed in the tunnels. The speed restriction through underground stations has also increased from 30km/h to 45km/h www.cbc.ca/news/canada/....

ICYMI: The Sheppard Subway Extension needs to serve Downsview Airport! Metrolinx is planning an extension of Line 4 — but without the right alignment, we risk missing a critical opportunity to connect transit to one of Toronto’s largest future communities. Link in bio. 🔗

In case you missed it, we wrote a similar article about the planned Finch West LRT extension to Woodbine GO. The TOD design and the under construction GO station seem to be overlooking the extension and could make transfers from LRT to GO much worse: moretransitso.substack.com/p/woodbine-g...

We are planning on extending the Sheppard Subway, there is an opportunity to think bigger and extend the line cheap and efficiently to Toronto's largest development. While the site is currently empty and before housing is built. Read our new article below: moretransitso.substack.com/p/the-sheppa...?

As part of today's announcement, the province and feds will be working together to further explore GO 2.0

The Waterfront LRT is finally funded! We have been advocating for this project to be funded ASAP so that the transit is in place for people to use before the area is developed. The city, province and feds will each contribute $1 billion and completion is expected in 2032. 1/5

Bradford's motion to commit to begin installing platform edge doors with a pilot project starting no later than Q4 2027 CARRIES 19-4.

As we have mentioned plenty of times before, the TTC plans to install platform edge doors at a cost 10x higher than projects in Europe. This is one of the biggest barriers to installation of PEDs across the network.

Good news! City council has committed to start construction to install platform screen doors by Fall 2027, as well as develop a 10 year funded plan for installation at Bloor-Yonge and other Line 1 stations for the 2027 budget.

This is the wrong way to think about this. The SmartTrack stations are fundamentally a good idea for the city’s public transport network. The question is why $1.5BN wasn’t enough to deliver five stations where all but one only had two platform tracks and why we have no communication from Metrolinx.

Today FastTrackTO is officially launching and releasing our 10 point plan to modernize the Toronto Streetcar network. An iconic symbol of the city that could be fantastic with some achievable, common sense and low cost changes. The plan if implemented would transform the city. fast-track.to (1/2)

Planning for TOD at Woodbine GO is now underway and must include provision for the Finch West LRT! What will the future of Woodbine GO look like with new rapid transit connections and a future plan to build nearly 20,000 homes and create 10,000 jobs in Toronto? Read the article in our bio.

Jonathan, our Co-Executive Director just met with Jarrett Young (@idrawsthings on Instagram), an incredible illustrator who recently published a collection of 21 inked drawings of transit riders on the TTC! ✍️ Thank you to Jarrett for sharing his work with us! #toronto #art #illustration

Planning for Transit Oriented Development at the under construction Woodbine GO station is now underway. However, current plans seem to be overlooking a future extension of the Finch West LRT. Read our new article to see why this is so important: open.substack.com/pub/moretran...

New Pape Station Renderings:

From the Mar 11 Audit & Risk Management agenda is management's response to the UITP review including this text re streetcar switches.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow confirms that enhanced signal priority is now being rolled out on Line 6 Finch West, with Line 5 Eglinton to follow soon. A huge step forward to maximizing the transit user experience on our new LRT lines!

SmartTrack was never a real transit plan. GO Expansion was planned to provide the intended transit service. In March 2016, council approved integrating SmartTrack into the GO Expansion project. Focusing on the legacy of this proposal is distracting from the real issue. 1/5

In terms of money for project complexity the SmartTrack stations might be the most overpriced transit project on the planet. King Liberty GO, which is a simple surface station with 1 platform, was expected to cost $590 million, which led to it getting cut. www.thestar.com/news/gta/met...

The opening of the Eglinton Crosstown marked a major expansion of Toronto's transit network after 15+ years of construction! MTSO continues to support implementing active transit signal priority to speed up travel times on the line. In the meantime, here are some photos from the opening day!

Laird -> Keelesdale in only 20 minutes, which is 9.3km for a 28km/h average speed, comparable to the Bloor Danforth Line through the same stretch of the city. This is around what we should expect when all trains are running at full speed.

It appears that the Eglinton Crosstown is already running at 80km/h in tunnels, at least for some trips (probably trains behind schedule) youtu.be/pwIx90F9sqo?...

🚆 Join More Transit Southern Ontario tomorrow for a ride-along on the now-open Eglinton Crosstown (Line 5)! We’ll kick things off at Mount Dennis Station and ride the full line to Kennedy, then head back west while touring all of the underground stations along the way.

The wait is finally over. The Eglinton Crosstown LRT will open this Sunday, and you can ride it for free on opening day!

With the train derailment that happened this morning, this is the updated schedule for GO trains this evening www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

this morning's GO train derailment brings up a number of issues people have been talking about for a while: 1) the union station approaches are old, complex, with a million crossovers, necessitating slow operating speeds to avoid derailments, and are long overdue to be rebuilt 1/3

Toronto example of timetable quirkiness. GO Transit runs 2tph peak outbound Lakeshore West trains to Oakville calling all stations. These have to return to Union to form LSE services, so run empty express in front of local eastbound trains instead of being spaced out to give 4tph inbound on LSW!

missed another light cycle westbound at Atlantic because of the restricted speed policy under underpasses. This outdated policy was due to trolley poles losing contract with the overhead during elevation changes. We don't have trolley poles on tbe network anymore!!

"State Capacity" is when the govt is able to closely monitor the construction market and issue detailed sectoral indexes that can be used to escalate contracts based on actual market conditions instead of using core inflation of gross aggregate construction indexes www.insee.fr/fr/statistiq...

In 2025, the ION LRT regularly exceeded 95% reliability for all trips.

In order to experience a high quality LRT, Toronto only needs to look to Waterloo Region. The ION LRT is fast and frequent, and has so many features that the TTC and Metrolinx can learn for LRTs and streetcars. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwJw...