TTC 2024 Service Plan Consultation Round Two
https://stevemunro.ca/2023/06/27/ttc-2024-service-plan-consultation-round-two/

The TTC is part way through production of its 2024 Service Plan as well as a 5-Year Service Plan and Customer Experience Action Plan. In Round Two, consultation will focus on plans for service changes triggered by major construction projects. Five…
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Osgoode Hall Garden and University Park
https://stevemunro.ca/2023/03/21/osgoode-hall-garden-and-university-park/

Over past months, the Ontario Line’s effect on trees in various locations around Toronto has become something of a cause célèbre. Osgoode Hall was, in a way, the “poster child” for this because of its location and the historic buildings at Queen & University. However, this was far from the only affected location with tree […]
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501 Queen Diversions and Shuttles for the Ontario Line
https://stevemunro.ca/2023/02/28/501-queen-diversions-and-shuttles-for-the-ontario-line/

This article is a follow-up to my earlier piece about the TTC’s Rapid Transit Expansion report including the effect of Ontario Line construction on the 501 Queen service. Back in December 2021, the City approved a report with a very long list of proposed road closures for Ontario Line construction. I wrote about this report […]
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TTC Transit Network Expansion: February 2023 Update
https://stevemunro.ca/2023/02/25/ttc-transit-network-expansion-february-2023-update/

At its meeting on February 28, the TTC Board will receive a report summarizing the status of most of the rapid transit plans in Toronto. This article condenses the TTC report and reorders some sections to group related items together. Dominant among many projects…
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Toronto’s Board of Trade Contemplates Transportation
https://stevemunro.ca/2023/02/11/torontos-board-of-trade-contemplates-transportation/

Prologue: When I started to write this story, John Tory was still Mayor of Toronto and the dynamics of City-Province relations assumed he was in charge. The context for these discussions was soon to change. The Toronto Region Board of Trade holds a yearly “transportation summit”, and on February 8, 2023, this…
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Osgoode Station Entrance Review
https://stevemunro.ca/2023/02/07/osgoode-station-entrance-review/

Metrolinx plans along several of its corridors have provoked community opposition and proposed alternative schemes, but Metrolinx has been quite intransigent about “just getting things built”, the mantra of the Ford government at Queen’s Park. Opposition is not merely steamrolled, but is painted as anti-transit, out of touch, and nimbyist in preventing the wider population […]
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Tracking Metrolinx Project Costs
https://stevemunro.ca/2022/11/30/tracking-metrolinx-project-costs/

The Province of Ontario is not exactly transparent when it comes to reconciliation of announced project costs and actual spending, let along the changes that might occur along the way. A project, or group of projects, might be announced with a value in then-…
#Downtown_Relief/Ontario_Line #Eglinton_LRT #Finch_West_LRT #GO_Transit #Hamilton #HurontarioMain_LRT #Scarborough_RT/LRT/Subway #SmartTra