August 2025 – Steve Munro
10 posts published by Steve during August 2025| Steve Munro
The TTC’s Strategic Planning Committee will meet on September 4 at 10:00am in the Board Room at 1900 Yonge Street, TTC headquarters. Among the items on the agenda is a report titled 2026-2028 Ridership Growth Strategy: 2026 Budget Considerations. This report proposes implementation of six initiatives through the 2026 Budget which is now in preparation: […]| Steve Munro
As a long-time transit activist, issues accumulate over the years and decades. Attempts to discuss “what needs to be done” quickly become a tangle of interlocking subjects. There is no simple solution to many problems. Advocates for better transit run into comments like “you’re so smart, what would you do?” The intent is usually to […]| Steve Munro
The Labour Day weekend sees the TTC return to fall schedules on several routes, the end of some construction diversions, and the beginning of another. Subway Service There is no change in subway service Streetcar Services A plan to improve streetcar service to a six minute standard daytime headway begins with 512 St. Clair, and […]| Steve Munro
There are many diversions coming up in the Fall for streetcar routes. Information on these appears in various places on the TTC site, mainly but not exclusively under Service Advisories. As an aid to riders, this article consolidates the available information in one place. Major events include: Other short term diversions will last only overnight […]| Steve Munro
Recently, the TTC added tables to its page mapping all reduced speed zones indicating the nature of each problem and the anticipated time to repair. Many of the dates were in August, and we’re well into that month already. Given past history, this seemed optimistic. The table has now been revised with a number of […]| Steve Munro
Several routes in the TTC network are scheduled to operate partly or completely with 18m articulated buses in place of the standard 12m varieties seen on most of the system. A problem commonly foun…| Steve Munro
Despite the premise of an open, competitive bid among potential carbuilders for new subway trains, various politicians have openly argued that the work should go to the historical provider, the Alstom (formerly Bombardier) plant in Thunder Bay. On August 15, all three funding governments, Canada, Ontario and Toronto announced that a sole-source contract will be […]| Steve Munro
The TTC has announced its services for the CNE for 2025 to operate from Friday, August 15 to Monday, September 1. Other routes will change to accommodate the CNE services and traffic conditions.| Steve Munro
The TTC is into the second round of its consultation for service changes and construction projects in 2026. There is a general page on the 2026 Network Plan and a Survey for feedback. If you comment here, be sure to also complete the survey so that your feedback goes into the official record. Updated August […]| Steve Munro
The list of surface route operating statistics for 2024 recently appeared on the TTC’s Planning webpage. This article consolidates data for the years 2019 (the last pre-pandemic year) to 2024. Values included in the TTC files are: Derived values included in this article: Pages for each set of stats are included in the detailed part […]| Steve Munro
This article is an update from a previous review of travel times on the Jane corridor which is currently under study in the RapidTO program. Red lanes are proposed between Eglinton and Steeles both ways. The southern limit is defined both by the change in roadway cross section in the older part of the city, […]| Steve Munro
This is the third part of a series showing details of travel times in the Bathurst and Dufferin corridors. For introductory remarks and a discussion of general issues, please refer to Part I. The main part of this article contains the charts for the streetcar service on 511 Bathurst. Note that data for any bus […]| Steve Munro
This is the second part of a series showing details of travel times in the Bathurst and Dufferin corridor. For introductory remarks and a discussion of general issues, please refer to Part I. The main part of this article contains the charts for the local and express bus services on Dufferin Street in June 2025. […]| Steve Munro
In recent discussions of the Bathurst and Dufferin transit priority schemes, a major issue is the degree to which various parts of the routes contribute to slower operation by time-of-day and direction. In this article and two to follow, I will review the actual behaviour of these routes to provide both a basis for discussion […]| Steve Munro
The TTC maintains a list of reduced speed zones on its website, and this constantly changing list is tracked in a previous article here showing how long some restrictions have been in place. The fo…| Steve Munro
The TTC will make a few service changes effective July 27, 2025 as well as a number of route name and signage modifications. The changes including before and after service designs are in the spreadsheet linked below. (The spreadsheet has been corrected to refer to Sheppard Yonge rather than Sheppard West Station for bus looping […]| Steve Munro
The TTC Board met on July 17, 2025. Among the items on the agenda were: CEO’s Report This CEO’s Report was the handoff from Interim CEO Greg Percy to Mandeep Lali who assumed the role in early July. There is little sense of Lali’s potential effect on the organization beyond his desire “to make the […]| Steve Munro
Updated July 21, 2025 at 11:20am: Despite the extensive catalogue of issues with the Green Bus program, the TTC Board wasted no time in adopting the report without debate on an enthusiastic motion by Commissioner/Councillor Saxe. There was a sense that they could not wait to get this item off of the table. However it […]| Steve Munro
On June 4, 2025, new reserved bus lanes were installed on Queens Quay westbound from Sherbourne to Bay, and eastbound from Jarvis to Sherbourne. The TTC projected travel time savings of up to 5 minutes, and more reliable service for riders using routes on this roadway including 114 Queens Quay East, 75 Sherbourne, 65 Parliament […]| Steve Munro
Since February 2024, I have tracked the TTC’s posted list of Reduced Speed Zones (RSZs) on subway lines 1 (YUS) and 2 (BD). A pattern has emerged that some RSZs are very long-lasting, others …| Steve Munro
About 50 years ago, there was a housecleaning at TTC’s head office at 1900 Yonge Street. A room in what was then the Advertising Department stuffed with archival material was to be cleared ou…| Steve Munro
The TTC Board met on June 23. Among the items on the agenda were: CEO’s Report Monthly Key Performance Indicators Financial and Major Projects Update for the Period Ended April 26, 2025 Major…| Steve Munro
At its meeting on June 23, the TTC Board considered a report on platform doors for its subway system: Platform Edge Doors Study – Outcome of Feasibility and Business Case Studies Platform Edg…| Steve Munro
Updated May 12, 2025 at 3:40pm: The text of the summary explaining the motion has been changed. A motion before the TTC Board meeting on May 14 seeks to have staff examine ways to make service more…| Steve Munro
In anticipation of transit demands for the FIFA games in June 2026 as well as general route reliability, Toronto proposes to install transit-only lanes on Bathurst (Eglinton to Lake Shore) and Duff…| Steve Munro
The TTC Board met on April 16 with many items on its agenda including a report on Extreme Precipitation Planning. Anyone living in Toronto will remember the heavy rains of July 2024 and the snows o…| Steve Munro
Information on large transit projects and their status is scattered through several reports. Two of these appear on the TTC Board’s April 16, 2025 agenda, but for a broader picture we must lo…| Steve Munro
This morning (November 20), I was honoured by the Canadian Urban Transit Association with one of their two 2024 Excellence awards. In my case, it was for decades of transit advocacy, and my co-winn…| Steve Munro
January 31, 2006 saw the first post on this blog, a compendium of film festival reviews I wrote going back to the dark ages of 1986 on another platform, the long-departed “Artworks” BBS…| Steve Munro
This article covers: The January 2025 CEO’s Report A follow-up on the report re Subway Streetcar Fleet and Infrastructure The proposed interim wayfinding strategy An update on fare collection…| Steve Munro
The TTC produces a monthly summary of On Time Performance for its bus and streetcar networks. To call it superficial would be generous, but there are pretty charts. First and most obvious among the…| Steve Munro
The agenda for the January 27 TTC Board meeting contains two reports containing information about infrastructure work planned on the rail networks in 2025. Subway and Streetcar State of Good Repair…| Steve Munro
On December 9, 2024, the TTC issued Requests for Proposals for two major contracts affecting the future of Line 2 Bloor-Danforth: one for new trains, and the other for a new signalling system. Alth…| Steve Munro
