yes…streetcar lines need priority!!!

I'd like to know if Line 5 is getting the same TSP as Line 6, or the watered down version.

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!

If you get off the Crosstown LRT at the Aga Khan Museum stop and want to go to the actual museum, you have to play frogger across the Eglinton westbound exit ramp from the DVP.

The Eglinton LRT is critical rapid transit. Give it the full 30 second green extension of other streetcar lines @toronto.ca. And look into red truncation too (may be challenging given minimum pedestrian crossing times). Who cares about drivers waiting, transit must get priority.

The TTC wants to hear from you all 📢

great news and good pointers #TTC

did you know our logo is also a streetcar? currently redesigning to make it more legible and easy to see 👍

great news to hear, and a relief.

eglinton crosstown should’ve had high-floor trains…like edmonton, etc. we can still do this theoretically but it’s not happening anytime soon that’s for sure 😭

Not enough doors. Tram vehicles can have more, but low floor is a hard limit. There is a reason high floor subways are used for lines like this. There is a reason we planned a high floor subway on this line decades ago . . .

The Line 5 launch went quite well in my personal opinion, and I'm going to have a detailed and I would say quite positive post on the line later today. But first I want to provide some things I really think should be fixed. The TTC to their credit was actually asking for this!

what a relief honestly… still lots of work to do!

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it’s not impossible. it just requires a bit of creativity and planning. torontonians are more than capable of it!

it could be SO much better with our #10-point-plan. the potential is thru the roof. LET THE RED ROCKETS FLY!!!

The most frustrating thing about the sanctimonious nature of a lot of the transit city and surface "light rail" talk in Toronto is that it is distinctly not *light rail* that we built, but the St. Clair streetcar with nicer stops.

This should all be done as a *comprehensive plan*. This maximizes benefits and creates great synergies that drive support for the program! A named program builds public awareness.

It's also suggested we use temporary track sections as in other parts of the world to limit shutdowns and constant diversions.

Stop consolidation is critical, but needs to happen broadly and all at once, so costs aren't born by a small local group, and *everyone* benefits massively from speedups!

The streetcars are going so slow in part because of antiquated technology Toronto still uses. Modern switch control would fix many intersection slow downs. Dual blade switches would bring the network in line with the light rail lines and even some streetcar yards.

Speed limits imposed on the network in all kinds of places limit the competitiveness of transit. TTC drivers are the safest on the road, and getting more people on transit would make everyone safer. We are systematically driving people out of transit by making it the slowest option on the streets.

Pedestrian islands and multistage crossings are critical for more dynamic traffic light timings. Eliminating left turns - even just selectively - would boost transit with a small cost to drivers, who themselves would benefit from less congestion!

The declining speed of the streetcar network has massively reduced ridership as Toronto has grown significantly. Jonathan speaks as to how this is driving people into cars, and massively increasing congestion, leaving a key asset to the city underused.

Now, Contributor @englishrail.bsky.social is showing our surface transit revitalization plan. A low cost project that would transform Toronto for the better, by saving tons of time, and making the streetcars, light rail and even buses better in Toronto.

Narayan Donaldson mentions we could save several minutes on the Spadina Streetcar alone with proper signal priority. A huge percentage improvement.

Contributor Narayan Donaldson is about to speak to the TTC board on supercharging transit signal priority in Toronto, with lessons from the rest of the world!

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.