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Development Roads Toronto Transit Urban Planning

St. Clair-Old Weston: find it if you can

St. Clair-Old Weston Road, while a worthwhile idea, needs to be rethought to attract the most ridership

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Cycling Ontario Transit Urban Planning Walking

How a transit authority has become a barrier to active mobility

It is frustrating when an agency tasked with “[connecting] new, established and emerging communities across the Greater Golden Horseshoe” fails to connect the communities its transit projects run through.

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Infrastructure Intercity Rail Toronto Transit Walking

Dysfunction Junction: another Union Station malfunction

Union Station remains very difficult to get around using a mobility device, especially when traveling between UP Express and the TTC Subway.

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Infrastructure Roads Toronto Transit

A little more coordination, please?

Getting around Downtown Toronto can be an exercise in frustration, whether you drive, bike, take transit, or drive. Though necessary transit and road construction projects are the cause of much of the congestion, driver behaviour, poor management, and a lack of coordination between various municipal and provincial agencies have only added to the traffic quagmire. […]

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Intercity Rail Politics Transit

A review of Metrolinx’s April 2024 service changes

With a GO train serving as a backdrop, Premier Doug Ford, along with Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria, announced major changes to GO Transit service, with 300 new weekly trains (a 15% service increase). The service changes will take effect on Sunday, April 28, 2024. Though most new trains will be added on the Lakeshore West, […]

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Infrastructure Toronto Transit

The other barrier to GO-TTC transfers

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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Brampton Mississauga Politics Transit

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.

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Brampton Mississauga Ontario Politics Transit

Heavy interference in a light rail transit project

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.

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Infrastructure Ontario Transit Walking

A visit to GO Transit’s New Old Elm Station

GO Transit’s new Stouffville Line terminal overlooked one important detail.

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Brampton Transit

An innovation in station naming rights?

The Brampton Innovation District, in the city’s downtown core, is one of the great things going in my hometown. Yet, I still feel uneasy about renaming the station there.