On-demand transit is costly to operate, less flexible for prospective passengers, and be frustrating to use, as I recently experience in Durham Region. But as on-demand transit can cover much larger areas than line haul routes, it has its place.
There are now five bus operators between Toronto and London. I tried out the newest operator on the scene and updated my Ontario intercity map.
The new Ontario One Fare Program finally solves several problems with the GTHA’s fare structure, but barriers to GO-TTC transfers remain.
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Whose line is it anyway?
In its response to my freedom of information request on the Hurontario LRT renaming, Metrolinx redacted the line number and colour. Now the secret is out.
The renaming of the Hurontario LRT for former Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion violates wayfinding standards, but the decision came direct from the Doug Ford government. The unilateral move is just another example of Metrolinx’s loss of independence.
A new interactive map shows the changes in passenger rail in Canada and the United States in the last 45 years. While intercity rail declined, especially in Canada, there’s been impressive growth in commuter rail services.
NOTE: Previous versions of the Ontario and Canada maps are retired; please see the new Canada Intercity Transport Map, launched March 30, 2025. This will now be the only interactive map that I will update. In 2022, I was approached by staff at Infrastructure Canada who were interested in compiling information on intercity bus services […]
There were some big intercity transport improvements in 2023, though a few communities lost service. I updated my Ontario map to show these changes.
Nearly three years ago, I wrote about the complicated history of Toronto’s Dundas Street. Calls to rename the street, which honours Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, came during a time of reckoning in Canada and the United States with racism, colonialism, and our ongoing relationships with First Nations. Ryerson University (my alma mater) changed its […]
On July 24, 2023, 38 years of Line 3, the Scarborough RT, came to an ignoble end when a car came off the tracks just south of Ellesmere Station, four months ahead of the scheduled closure of the deteriorating line. Though the City of Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) were hesitant to say […]
Sean Marshall 