It's crazy that we spent money to grade separate this segment only for the trains to not go faster than 10km/h

Just stepping past the discussion over the speed and ops for a moment, it was clear from my two round-trips today that the line was rushed into opening with countless unfinished elements.

this one minute video sums up today's opening of toronto's newest light rail, line 6. this is so, so infuriating. ~50 min to go 10 km; ~30 min to go 5km. in this case, the cross street is a minor road, yet the train is still held up for a minute for left turns

The Finch West LRT is now open! 🥳 While this is great news for Toronto, the LRT has slow average speeds and has only conditional transit signal priority (activating when the train is late). MTSO continues to support implementing full TSP on Lines 5 & 6 to speed up travel times for riders.

"As drivers get more used to driving this system for sure the round trip travel times gonna get better" It's good to see the public pressure of low travel speeds on Finch West has reached the Metrolinx CEO. youtu.be/4IlrEG_UDno?...

The Eglinton Crosstown LRT has officially reached substantial completion. And according to Premier Ford the line could be open in just a few weeks for the start of 2026. Service will run roughly every 5 minutes from 6am-11pm on opening day. With more service planned in the future

Line 6 Finch West opens in just 4 days! Upon opening, Line 6 will have one connection to the existing network, at Finch West. In the future, this line could be extended to Pearson Airport, with 5 additional connections to other lines, building a stronger rapid transit network.

This is great news! Just over a year ago, there were 26 slow zones across the subway system. For the past two years, TTCriders has called on all levels of government to fund the TTC repair backlog and fix slow zones. Looking forward to faster commutes as we get those slow zones down to zero!

Revenue Service Demonstration for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT is officially complete. Ontario's Transportation Minister claims there's a chance the line opens before 2026. www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Line 6 is now in GTFS! Try your trip plans in Google Maps to see how your commute might change.

Good News! Line 2 is completely free of slowzones as of today, and Line 1 has four slowzones which are planned to be removed by the end of the month. Hopefully the system can be slowzone free by the end of the year.

🚍‼️ The new #TTC #RapidTO bus lanes on #Dufferin are great! Next, they should be: -⬆️ extended north from Bloor to Eglinton -🚌 paired w/ frequent & reliable service -↔️ added to Finch, Lawrence, Jane & Steeles ✍🏾 Sign @ttcriders.bsky.social petition to expand & improve them: www.TTCriders.ca/Lanes

Regular reminder that it makes no sense that all trains won't stop at Scarborough in the future. Hurting the GO network functioning as something other than a commuter shuttle.

if you want to know why toronto's new light rail line is going to be slower than the bus it replaces, here's one reason why:

Trip data for the Finch West LRT is now public and has been analyzed by Steve Munro. The average speed comes in at 13.5km/h. For reference the average speed for on street segments of the ION in Kitchener Waterloo is 18-19km/h. stevemunro.ca/2025/11/28/6...

Food for thought: the 13.5 km/h average trip speed for Line 6 Finch West is slower than the PM peak average trip speed of 13.9 km/h for the 507 Long Branch streetcar, which has no private right of way for most of the route. In comparison, Lines 1 and 2 average 30 km/h and Line 4 averages 37 km/h.

Now that we finally have limited weekend service to/from Kitchener. What's currently stopping us from having Two Way All Day Service? @tritag.ca explains everything here: tritag.ca/blog/2025/11...

This appears to be the most detailed regional transit map we've seen from Metrolinx to date (via CEO Michael Lindsay on Linkedin). There's some interesting takeaways from info in this map 1/4.

RapidTO is already having big effects on Dufferin

The TTC has announced Line 6 Finch West opens Dec 7! The new LRT brings 18 stops from Finch West Station to Humber Polytechnic, connecting with TTC, GO, MiWay, YRT and Züm. Soft-opening hours: 6 a.m.–10 p.m., with bus service afterward. Big milestone for Toronto transit!

Instead of being parked all weekend, this train should be going back and forth between Kitchener and Toronto… and today it is!

Metrolinx: we'll need to do discontinuous electrification at Union Station because we can't touch the heritage canopy SBB/CFF/FFS: we are raising the existing canopy at the Gare de Lausanne by 1 m and move it laterally by 90 cm to slightly modify the tracks' geometry. youtu.be/CNuJLQguRgo?...

Excellent video by @flurfdesign.bsky.social going into the details about the problems with our streetcars in Toronto, which make them the slowest system in the world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPbX...

In the latest documents for Metrolinx's upcoming board meeting. They outline the most detailed information regarding GO Expansion ever publicly released. 1/4 assets.metrolinx.com/image/upload...

Den Haag Tram Line 3: - 18km/h average speed for pm peak trips on tramway portion of line - 450m average stop spacing - level boarding The average speed of Toronto streetcar lines is just 10.7km/h. Watch Den Haag Line 3 in action here: youtu.be/3pJuMXxO-qU?...

Today is the last day to apply for our streetcar lead position!

GO expansions to Seaton, Northumberland, Bolton, Cambridge (via Milton and Guelph), Havelock, 2WAD Richmond Hill service, Midtown GO line, and an orbital 407 line were all studied.

Seems like there's some pretty interesting stuff in the 2051 Metrolinx Regional Transportation Plan

The Carney Government just passed a Federal Budget that cuts the Canada Public Transit Fund, as the TTC faces a $4.3B repair backlog & $232M operations shortfall. The $3B fund will now be folded into a generalized infrastructure fund, leaving less money on the table for transit riders nationwide 👎

Today Mount Dennis GO Station opened, with trains between Downtown Toronto, Brampton-Kitchener and Pearson Airport on average every 10 minutes. This is one of many regional rail stations coming to the City of Toronto over the next decade, as GO Transit continues to expand.

A reminder that Mount Dennis GO officially opens tomorrow morning! Here is the UP Express schedule for tomorrow. The weekday schedule as well as the schedule for GO trains can be viewed online.

We're happy to announce that we're looking for a volunteer to lead our advocacy efforts for the TTC Streetcar network. Our streetcars are some of the slowest in the world, and on time performance was just 61% last month. As our streetcar lead, you will have the responsibility of: 1/3

When Mount Dennis GO/UP opens this Sunday, UP express travel times will increase from 25 minutes to 28 minutes in both directions for all trips.

Our construction costs are a big barrier to not getting our infill GO stations. 2/5 stations got cut because we are incapable of building simple above ground stations for less than $400million. Park Lawn GO recently got postponed because of cost and our flawed model of private station development.

Did you know that when Mount Dennis GO opens this Sunday. It'll be 3x faster to get to Union Station than it currently takes. The fastest trips today take around 45 minutes, on Sunday it'll take just 13 minutes. This is the power of regional rail.

Watch Toronto's streetcars in action. Transit signal priority holds the green light for the streetcar to make it through, but a car waiting to make an illegal left turn makes the streetcar miss the light. Hopefully the red paint being installed on Bathurst makes this less common.

If we want to get high speed rail on the Toronto-Quebec City corridor within our lifetimes, the federal government needs to develop the expertise to execute this project. A large part of that includes getting rid of our incredibly secretive planning and design process

#NEWS: Waterloo Regional Council voted 15-1 in favour of the full-route LRT extension to Cambridge, with construction planned to start as early as 2028. Many community members spoke in support of the extension, noting the need for equity, active transportation & housing density in Cambridge.

The federal budget is likely quite bad for transit. They've rebranded the Canada Public Transit Fund and rolled it into a more generic "Build Communities Strong Fund" If 'Transit’ was removed from the name, we have to assume that it isn't a priority for this government. Stay tuned for more updates

It seems that the Canada Public Transit Fund will be changing as part of todays budget announcement. We will see what those changes are when the budget gets released. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

The difference in the time it takes a streetcar in Amsterdam vs. Toronto to clear an intersection after servicing a nearside stop.

This is a mistake Toronto will regret for decades. The Eglinton Crosstown LRT could've and should've been a fully grade separated light metro.

Mount Dennis GO/UP station will officially open on Sunday November 16th. Note that the Eglinton Crosstown segment of the station will not open until the LRT opens and starts service news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

Good News! The Finch West LRT has successfully completed its revenue service demonstration. The line will be handed over to the TTC by November 3rd and will open shortly after. news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

🚆 Kitchener-Waterloo residents are finally getting what they've been wanting for decades. Weekend GO service to Kitchener will officially start on November 23rd, with four weekend trips being extended from Mount Pleasant to Kitchener GO.

Revenue service demonstration for Eglinton Crosstown LRT started today! The line will run as if official service started for 30 days without passengers. This is the final test before the line can open. globalnews.ca/news/1146813...

Infrastructure Ontario has submitted development plans to Mississauga to develop 2 parking lots at Cooksville GO as part of their Transit Oriented Communities program. 1/x www.infrastructureontario.ca/en/what-we-d...

Metrolinx just announced there will be Full Service on the Lakeshore West Line Oct 4/5 Citing the Blue Jays playoff game, GO Transit will delay track work to a later weekend. Trains will operate regular schedules / regular stops on Lakeshore West.

The province is proposing 2 MZOs for the Exhibition station TOC. Consultations are open until October 19th: ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-1... ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-1...

Wayfinding is on the agenda at the next TTC Board meeting! Transit riders have long found signage on public transit inadequate and inaccessible. If it passes this strategy is a step toward clearer, more inclusive navigation. 1/5