After a year of design, I've finally completed my fantasy transit map of the Greater Toronto Area!
I tried to keep things realistic (but, yes there are some silly things!) Let me know what you think
Trains coming every 16 minutes is unacceptable for a high quality transit system.
Not all riders commute 9-5, off-peak trips shouldn't be made impossible by service cuts.
Waited over 25 minutes for buses and subways during one trip today. In that time, I could have easily driven or cycled to my destination
Service cuts will kill transit ridership
Two subway lines on North America’s 3rd busiest subway system were shut down today during rush hour from a completely avoidable tragedy.
The city refuses to fund Platform Screen Doors which would prevent delays and save lives.
Highway 413 will serve 300k people per day 10 years from now, the proposed RapidTO corridors would serve 220k today.
Why are we priotizing expensive highways when we can improve public transit in a matter of months?
Riding a very packed, slow King streetcar on a corridor that is falling apart is so painful.
Hope to see Toronto's new mayor improve the streetcar priority and infrastructure on King St. ASAP
Toronto has a new bus lane!
It's really disappointing that the city didn't care enough to do this, but very grateful to
@ttcriders
for quickly improving transit
I just waited 45 minutes for a bus that didn't show up.
If the TTC can't even provide basic, reliable service, cutting service further will fail the people of Toronto.
On a very crowded GO train, a couple next to me even talking about how nice it is to take the train now that it's not just rush hour only
If you add service, riders will come!
yikes, the GTA will soon have three rapid transit stations named "Eglinton". Could be confusing for new riders. Wayfinding should really be done on a regional scale
8am is way to late for the start of subway service, even on a Sunday. Blue night buses are always packed and unreliable
People want to ride transit, why not provide good service?
In the past 12 hours, The Toronto subway has been shut down 4 times. Once on Line 1 & three times on Line 2, twice because of fires.
The TTC has a major reliability problem
I hate these new stickers
The TTC shouldn't be punishing riders for not being able to afford transit, especially when service is getting worse and fares are going up
These people (and many others) were left behind because the subway was too crowded to get on
Service cannot be cut when vehicles are massively over capacity
The Port Lands is a super cool project but it's going to be poorly served by transit.
Without streetcar service from day one or a GO/Ontario Line station at Cherry, there will be more traffic & future additions will be costly
"No service on line 1 because of a trespasser on the tracks"
If only we funded platform screen doors that would make trespassing impossible and save lives
Toronto is redeveloping its eastern waterfront & building a new island, but we need more funding to build higher order transit on the waterfront.
Why we need funding now: 🧵
The Mayor’s Executive Committee this week includes an item advancing the Waterfront East LRT.
The request includes $63 in million new funding to advance the eastern waterfront and Villiers Island portions.
Once this item is passed at next Tuesday’s Executive Committee, it will
I checked out the eastern section of the Crosstown yesterday and lot's of new progress has been made!
Some surface stations are fully complete now with PRESTO machines, emergency phones and screens installed!
Buses should really announce subway disruptions at connecting stops "next stop is ---, there's no service between --- and --- on line -".
Providing detour info too would make transit so much easier to use
Installing PSD’s would cost $20 million per station. It sounds expensive but it's a small price to pay for a faster, safer, more reliable system.
Instead of saving lives the city insists on spending billions to rebuild a highway cutting through our downtown
Rather than ticketing the numerous drivers who illegally drive on King, or repair the crumbling infrastructure, streetcars are being stopped and emptied for being stuck in traffic?
For an agency transporting a million riders, there needs to be much better transparency for why the subway is now 10+ min slower (and when delays will be gone)
@mccormack_cat
We don't have a completion date at this time, staff are working to address this as quickly as possible. As sections are completed our site will be updated ^JH
New traffic signals are proposed across two DVP SB on-ramps at Eglinton Ave E, with the long-term plan to include road safety improvements at all four on-ramps. These new traffic signals would allow dedicated green time for pedestrians and people cycling to cross. (3/4)
The TTC seems to have redesigned the digital displays at subway entrances.
While the new design prioritizes useful info over ads, there is some wasted space. Displaying subway ETA's would be useful!
Toronto's busiest subway station is getting platform edge doors!
PED's will mean a safer, more reliable TTC and increase train speeds. Good to see the TTC is setting a higher standard for NA transit
Starting today, trains are using the elevated guideway as part of the Davenport Diamond Grade Separation project.
This brings GO Transit one step closer to providing high-frequency RER style regional rail to an entire region and is a huge milestone
This delay impacted thousands of transit riders, but investing in barriers at the edge of platforms would make it impossible for people to jump or be pushed in front of trains.
Line 6's Humber College station looks really nice from the renderings but the land use is absolutely terrible. Instead of bringing the bus terminal close to the LRT stop a large parking lot will separate the station from the campus
@PCPappy
Have you considered that people can't afford the fare?
What's frustrating is funding police to restrict transit access instead of keeping transit fares low
It's another day and that means the Toronto subway has been disrupted and shut down seven times today.
The city should be improving service being increasing fares.
It's really silly that two bus terminals across the street from each other have different names, unfiied branding would make riding transit much less confusing!
Only in Ottawa for a few hours but I had to ride the O-Train!
Stations are very nice and the views are good too! However, there are wayyy to many tight curves so the line can be quite slow
Replacing massive, fast trains with small buses in downtown traffic isn't practical either. It leads to slow overcrowded buses that riders can't depend on.
Toronto’s Night Bus system is super fast and covers most of the city but it has two major issues!
Reliability and transferring between routes makes the system almost unusable