Some progress and some disappointing losses in Canada’s intercity transportation links in 2025.
Category: Maps
Though there’s some good news in Eastern Ontario, some essential links have yet to be restored.
As we enter Spring 2025, there are a few significant changes in Ontario’s intercity transportation services. A new daily GO Transit route will now connect Six Nations and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation with Brantford, Hamilton, and Greater Toronto. A new seasonal Waterloo-Burlington weekend express could foreshadow more direct service between Kitchener/Waterloo and […]
New changes for October 2024 included improved service on Vancouver Island, new routes in Alberta, BC, and Quebec, and even more competition between Edmonton and Calgary.
Southern Ontario Transit provides a critical link between Hamilton and Haldimand County, but without community support, it might not last.
Also, some updates to my Ontario Intercity Transport Map.
Transit system maps are an essential tool for newcomers and casual users. Unfortunately, some agencies have not just done away with paper maps, but with useable system maps all together.
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. Since 2020, I have maintained an interactive map of bus and rail services in Ontario. Without a central repository of […]
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.
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 […]
Sean Marshall 