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CodeRedTO was founded in 2011 as a consciously non-partisan, non-profit, volunteer-run advocate for local and regional public transit. We promote more and better transit […]

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Line 6 Finch opens Sunday December 7! To help celebrate, we are giving out some special pins and magnets that morning along the route - keep your eyes peeled!
Two small metal decorative pins side by side on a flat surface. The pin on the left is black with a red stripe across the centre, with white dots inside like a transit line map. It reads Finch and Transit City, with a small red LRV pictogram and the TTC line 6 pictogram. The pin to the right is white, with a large black LRV pictogram on it. The LRV has a cartoonish smiling face in its silhouette.
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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In MacLean’s, @straphanger argues “Montreal’s New Rail Line Is the Future.”

“Toronto has struggled for years to finish the Eglinton Crosstown, a light-rail project that is now going into its 15th year of construction. The Ontario Line, the successor to the Downtown Relief Line—a project first […]
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November 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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TTC announces that Line 6 Finch will open Sunday December 7th

https://www.ttc.ca/riding-the-ttc/Line-6-Finch-West

#TTC #toronto #metrolinx #topoli #etobicoke #finchwest #transit #publictransit
Screenshot of linked website which reads: Line 6 Finch West is 11 kilometres of light rail transit connecting customers along Finch Avenue West. It starts at Finch West Station (Keele Street) and goes all the way to Humber College Station (near Hwy 427). Starting December 7, 2025, it will provide customers with convenient and reliable rapid transit service and transform northwest Toronto’s connections to the rest of the city and beyond.
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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jerome.jasette.facil.services.ap.brid.gy
Basically me. I almost entirely stopped using streetcars. I take the green line to go east west and then bus north south or just walk. I can’t really trust streetcar anymore.

I don’t want to get rid of it. I want it fixed.

#topoli #streetcarsummit https://mstdn.ca/@CodeRedTO/115600602847558557
CodeRedTO (@[email protected])
#StreetcarSummit Puhakka tells a story of his experience on the 506 College, and how a 3-leg trip using subway frequently makes more sense despite the much longer distance. Next question: "What are some solutions to the streetcar system's issues which could be implemented tomorrow?"
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November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Packed community centre room for the @ttcriders.bsky.social Streetcar Summit, including TTC Chair Jamaal Myers, who opens his remarks stating that the board *asked* to be told about how awful streetcars are, to provide more fuel to improve service.

Follow this 🧵 to follow along, and use […]
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mstdn.ca
November 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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rzaichkowski.bsky.social
Ahead of tomorrow's @ttcriders.bsky.social streetcar summit, @flurfdesign.bsky.social put out this video explaining why Toronto's streetcars are the slowest on Earth and how they can be fixed. #TTC #TOpoli youtu.be/CPbXfHFbke0?...
The Slowest Trams on Earth: Toronto's Streetcars
YouTube video by flurfdesign
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November 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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jerome.jasette.facil.services.ap.brid.gy
Details are finally out about what happened to the Scarborough subway extension boring machine that got stuck under the 401

https://globalnews.ca/news/11521835/scarborough-subway-extension-highway-401-closure/

#metrolinx #scarborough #topoli
November 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
coderedto.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy
Surface transit can be more reliable, and can move more people, if we do it right.

@ttcriders.bsky.social is hosting a "Save Our Streetcars Summit" on November 23rd - come chat with @CodeRedTO and your fellow transit riders!

https://www.ttcriders.ca/save_our_streetcars_summit
Poster for linked event which reads: “Why can I walk faster than my streetcar?" On-time performance of streetcars is an embarrassing 61% system-wide. Toronto's streetcars are in trouble. We need solutions. Join us & a panel of speakers to discuss how we can keep streetcars running. Nov 23 1-5 PM Cecil Community Centre TTC riders
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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TTC Riders ( @ttcriders.bsky.social ) is hosting a ‘Save Our Streetcars Summit’ in Toronto on November 23. This is a free event with coffee, snacks, and TTC tickets upon request.

Register here:
https://www.ttcriders.ca/save_our_streetcars_summit?recruiter_id=16210 […]

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Poster for linked event which reads: “Why can I walk faster than my streetcar?" On-time performance of streetcars is an embarrassing 61% system-wide. Toronto's streetcars are in trouble. We need solutions. Join us & a panel of speakers to discuss how we can keep streetcars running. Nov 23 1-5 PM Cecil Community Centre TTC riders Screenshot of linked registration page, which reads: Noticed that streetcar service has gotten more unreliable, slow, and delayed? It's not just you. For many riders, walking can be a faster option than taking the streetcar in Toronto. This past summer, a runner was able to beat five streetcar routes travelling terminal-to-terminal on-foot! The data confirms it - a 2024 study found that Toronto's streetcar system is among the slowest in the world. According to the TTC last month, only 61% of streetcars showed up on time. Over the last several years, the speed and reliability of all streetcar routes have declined significantly, coinciding with ever-increasing traffic congestion. Projects like the King Streetcar Priority Corridor have been successful at improving service in the past, but are no longer working to keep commutes reliable and fast. It's time for a fulsome discussion about what is needed to bring better streetcar service.
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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jerome.jasette.facil.services.ap.brid.gy
Revenue service testing has resumed on line 5 Eglinton

Unclear if they have to restart the 30 day testing protocol or can resume where it was in the process.

Either ways trains are back at running on the line […]
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jasette.facil.services
October 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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CodeRedTO alongside many community members worked hard to ensure all rapid transit options were considered, and we are happy to see the residents and commuters of north Etobicoke get closer to this new line being ready!
https://mastodon.online/@Pkbwood/115426050143797121
Tricia Wood (@[email protected])
Not many will remember (or care to!) but it was the campaign of @[email protected] that saved the Finch LRT from the subway-subway-subway folks, who wanted to take the $ and build maybe 3 km of subway instead of the 10 km of LRT that is about to open. Better, faster service for many more people. https://coderedto.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Finch_West_Light_Rail_Facts.pdf
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October 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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MEDIA RELEASE: CodeRedTO researchers have calculated the impact to worker pay and productivity as–at a minimum–over 20,000 hours and over $496,000 from this single two-hour incident […]

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Screenshot of linked article on CodeRedTO site
October 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Streetcar Signal Priority in Depth, from Narayan Donaldson on @reece's blog, Next Metro

https://open.substack.com/pub/nextmetro/p/toronto-fixing-the-spadina-streetcar?r=bqtf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Toronto: Streetcar Signal Priority in Depth
An Exploration of Priority Signals and Streetcars.
nextmetro.substack.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
coderedto.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy
"Car costs are also baked into almost all the prices we pay: If you take the bus to a suburban shopping mall, the prices you pay include all the costs of the vast parking lot you didn’t use. If you drive to the mall, bus riders subsidize you."

@humantransit on the […]

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Screenshot of linked article, with photo of bus riders behind a sign reading "Thanks for riding SEPTA". The headline reads "Should We Let Public Transit Die?" and the subheadline reads "Urban-rural hostility is fueling a public transportation crisis in US cities. But demands to abandon bus and train riders ignore the economic and social costs of cutting service." The photo is captioned "SEPTA bus riders in Philadelphia in August. The transit system faces a severe funding crisis. Photographer: Ryan Collerd/Bloomberg"
September 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
coderedto.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy
Le Téléjournal Ontario a discuté avec nous du coût élevé des portes palières.

CodeRedTO: « Si nous devons dépenser des milliards pour augmenter la capacité de la CTT, d'autres projets devraient être envisagés, comme le WaterFront LRT de l'est, promis depuis des décennies »

(à partir de 4:30) […]
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mstdn.ca
June 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Tunnel connecting UP Express to TTC's Dundas West station under construction after long delay

CodeRedTO: "it should be something that we are able to pull off in a little *less* than 10 years"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/up-express-ttc-tunnel-1.7563769 […]

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A colourful mural painted over hoarding blocking a construction zone at Dundas West TTC station. CBC caption reads: Signage at UP Express Bloor Station shows where the passenger tunnel to the Dundas West subway station will be when it opens.
June 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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metroscapes.ca
Metrolinx has said it will announce an opening date for the Eglinton Crosstown 3 months in advance. 3 months from now is September, which I understand aligns with how TTC schedules things. This is hopeful. #Toronto #TOpoli #TTC
Eglinton LRT on track to open as soon as September, Doug Ford says
Premier Doug Ford says that he expects that the long-delayed Eglinton Crosstown LRT could be open as soon as September, with plans to hand the line over to the TTC for final testing “in the next coupl...
www.cp24.com
June 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Build it to respect customers' time and They Will Ride:

"Passengers made more than 52 million trips by train between Beijing and Shanghai last year, while only about 8.6 million people took a flight between the two cities.

Business travellers especially are increasingly viewing high-speed rail […]
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May 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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TTC streetcar detour timeline:

Jan 2025: detour, but parking/ stopping/ loading restrictions + dedicated transit lanes.

March: transit lanes removed from plan

April: restrictions removed from plan

May: detour begins poorly

@GraphicMatt in the Toronto Star […]

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Screenshot of linked article with headline, photo of streetcar, and caption as follows: Opinion | Matt Elliott: There was a better way — 'transit hell' from streetcar detour is a cautionary tale Photo And along Richmond and Adelaide, where King streetcars are now sharing track with Queen streetcars that are also on a construction-related detour, the jam-packed street full of streetcars and other vehicles resulted in very slow movement, Matt Elliott writes.
May 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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"Removing subsidized street parking to speed up the trip for tens of thousands of bus riders is so self-evidently logical it shouldn’t require debate."

Globe editorial supports transit improvements on Dufferin and Bathurst […]

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Sometimes weighing the greater public good isn’t complicated. Removing subsidized street parking to speed up the trip for tens of thousands of bus riders is so self-evidently logical it shouldn’t require debate. Unfortunately, as Toronto is finding, the status quo is stubborn. Some residents are pushing back on a plan to create transit priority lanes on a few of the city’s busiest surface routes – including Dufferin Street, where Toronto Transit Commission buses carry as many as 40,000 riders daily. It’s a version of NIMBY (not-in-my-backyard) that might be dubbed NIMPS: not in my parking spot. What these residents forget is that these parking spots are not actually theirs. As similar debates play out across the country, it’s worth remembering two things. One, public roads are public resources, to be used in the way that offers the greatest benefit. And, two, the current use is not necessarily the best one, no matter how entrenched it may be. Canadian cities are growing and struggling with congestion. Subways are expensive and can take many years to build. Transit priority lanes in Toronto could help make the case that there is, in the short term, a cost-effective way to speed up traffic in a major way. However, the controversy in Toronto also illustrates the difficulty of these debates, as residents fight hard to protect street parking. Their zeal is understandable. They’ve become accustomed to using public land as cheap storage for their personal vehicles. Of course, the fact that parking is underpriced leads to demand outstripping supply. North Vancouver voted last month to tackle that by adding a charge to some streets while boosting the cost of a permit fourfold, to $8.33 per month, to park on others. That’s not nearly enough, but it’s a start. One of the greatest resources for cities is the vast swaths of public land, including curb lane parking spots that residents tend to see as their own. Cities reclaim that land by using a price to manage demand – or decide there’s a better use for curb lane. In Toronto, the best use of those lanes on Dufferin is turning two of them into spaces primarily for transit buses. Also allowed access under the plan would be emergency vehicles, transit for disabled people, school buses and bicycles. This change would save transit riders up to 10 minutes for those going the full route, according to a TTC report, while improving on-time reliability for buses by 17 per cent. For comparison, Toronto politics was convulsed early last decade with debate over whether to build a light rail line in Scarborough or extend a subway, the latter approach costing a premium then pegged at $1.1-billion. Coincidentally, that subway extension was projected to save downtown-bound transit riders 10 minutes. While the capital costs to put bus-only lanes on Dufferin are not yet public, it’s safe to say that it would cost an awful lot less than that subway extension. Not having the Dufferin bus stuck as much in traffic would also save the TTC money, the report says, while the improved service is expected to attract nearly 3,000 new daily transit riders to the route. Net annual benefit to the agency: more than $3-million. A counterargument, from a group Protect Dufferin that speaks for some homeowners on the route, is that their parking needs are being ignored. One way to assess the competing needs is to look at the relative benefit of better transit versus convenient parking. The value of the bus improvement is reasonably easy to quantify. It is projected to go faster, be more reliable, carry more people and boost revenues. The true value of the parking spaces is harder to determine, because Toronto has long underpriced its public land. As in much of the central city, parking spaces along Dufferin are a mix of free, metered and permit parking. Permits in Toronto are priced below market rates and work out to less than $1 a day, if the homeowner has nowhere to park on their own property, or about $3.50 if they do. Urban curb lanes are valuable real estate. If they were priced accordingly Toronto would quickly find out how much NIMPS really want those spaces. And that should demonstrate that city hall has the latitude to roll out bus-only lanes much more broadly. The public good demands it.
May 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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After 1st week, TTC has identified challenges with King streetcar diversion and announced an adjustment to reduce King/Spadina friction.

News Release

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"To ensure the TTC is providing the best service possible during the King/Church intersection closure, a small adjustment to the 504 King […]
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May 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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CodeRedTO Recommends Emergency Streetcar Route Protections

https://coderedto.com/coderedto-recommends-emergency-streetcar-route-protections/

#toronto #topoli #TTC #metrolinx #transit #publictransit
Screenshot from linked press release with CodeRedTO branding
May 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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CodeRedTO Recommends Emergency Streetcar Route Protections

https://coderedto.com/coderedto-recommends-emergency-streetcar-route-protections/

#toronto #topoli #TTC #metrolinx #transit #publictransit
Screenshot from linked press release with CodeRedTO branding
May 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Significant streetcar diversions through downtown May-August will disrupt busiest surface transit route in Canada.

Poor line management by TTC and lack of modern switches and transit signal priority means this detour will delay riders and make surface transit less […]

[Original post on mstdn.ca]
Downtown Toronto streetcar map showing all Queen and King streetcars funneled onto (from west to east) Queen, York, Richmond & Adelaide, Church, and Queen again, while King street from Spadina to Broadview is served by replacement buses.
May 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM