TTC Transit City

"Moving Toronto into the future"

The Toronto Transit City Light Rail Plan is an exciting initiative that will revolutionize transit and transportation across Toronto. Its far-reaching lines will revitalize neighbourhoods, spur economic growth and clean the air we breathe. Seven new Light Rail Transit (LRT) lines will bring reliable, fast, quiet and comfortable transit service to many Toronto neighbourhoods. Transit City has been strongly endorsed by the TTC, the City of Toronto, and Metrolinx, the regional transportation agency.The Province of Ontario has announced funding for the construction of the lines and they are incorporated into the Regional Transportation Plan recently proposed by Metrolinx.

Don Mills

This 18-kilometre long line will run along the Don Mills Road corridor from the Bloor-Danforth Subway to Steeles Avenue and potentially into York Region.

Current bus routes: 25 Don Mills, 81 Thorncliffe Park
Ridership in 2006: 15 million
Ridership in 2021: 24 million

Eglinton Crosstown

This 31-kilometre long route will link Kennedy Station in the east with Pearson Airport and the Mississauga Transitway in the west. The line will operate in an underground tunnel from approximately Laird Drive in the east to Keele Street in the west.

Current bus routes: 32 Eglinton West, 34 Eglinton East
Ridership in 2006: 32 million
Ridership in 2021: 52 million

Etobicoke- Finch West

This 18-kilometre long route will link Finch Station with northern Etobicoke, provide direct service to Humber College and could be extended to Mississauga, the Woodbine racetrack or Pearson Airport.

Current bus routes: 36 Finch West
Ridership in 2006: 15 million
Ridership in 2021: 24 million

Jane

This 17-kilometre long route will stretch along Jane Street from the Bloor-Danforth Subway to the new Steeles West Station on the Spadina Subway and, potentially, further into York Region.

Current bus route: 35 Jane
Ridership in 2006: 15 million
Ridership in 2021: 19 million

Scarborough Malvern

This 15-kilometre long route will link Kennedy Station with northern Scarborough and Malvern, and provide direct service to the University of Toronto at Scarborough and Centennial Colleges Ellesmere Campus.

Current bus routes: 116 Morningside, 86 Scarborough
Ridership in 2006: 8 million
Ridership in 2021: 22 million

Sheppard East

This 14-kilometre long route will extend rapid transit service east from Don Mills Station to northern Scarborough, Malvern, and, potentially, Durham Region.

Current bus routes: 85 Sheppard East, 190 Scarborough Centre Rocket
Ridership in 2006: 9 million
Ridership in 2021: 20 million

Waterfront West

This 11-kilometre long extension of the Harbourfront streetcar line will link Union Station and Exhibition Place with Parkdale, High Park, and southern Etobicoke, and could be extended into Mississauga.

Current routes: 501 Queen, 508 Lake Shore, 509 Harbourfront
Ridership in 2006: 8 million
Ridership in 2021: 15 million

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[VprPlyr14]

Honestly, thy should extend Sheppard subway to Dowsview and extend YUS line to York U. That way, ppl from York U have a better way of going to Scarbgorough or elsewhere in the West. Less crowd on the Rocket to York U, the better.

[sega31098]

Oh we have the population: Toronto has around 2.7 million in the city limits, 6 million with the GTA suburbs and 8 million with the Golden Horseshoe, but we have 4 subway lines. Barcelona is 1.6 million by itself and over 4 million in the area, yet it has 10 lines for a subway. They keep increasing the fare for subways in Toronto so they better save up the type of money for even more lines in the near future anyways.

[tiadayz]

Rob ford needs to be ousted by a civil war constructed by the people of his city

[waterlizardz123]

If Ford wants a subway why can't he just build a subway all the way to Nielson Rd?? and how about a Finch West subway to satisfy etobicoke all the way to Humber college... and while your at it how about a subway to the airport too??? if he wants to end gridlock jsut build the subways everywhere not constraining them to a short distance aka upto scarborough town centre... either do that or bring back Transit city..

[TTCsubway1204]

@VprPlyr14 They are extending the YUS line to York U

[bassplayer923]

@seidoger That's why VIVA/YRT drivers are on strike. The 905 drivers make $23/hr while TTC drivers make $29/hr.

At least TTC is now an essential service, no more 'legal' strikes.

[seidoger]

@bassplayer923 For that I sadly all agree with you.. If most people knew how much TTC employees are paid, they'd jump.

[bassplayer923]

@seidoger The problem lies within TTC as well. There's a saying TTC stands for Take The Car, because of the poor maintenance, rude employees, frequent delays, disgusting environment, funding issue.. which led up the fare to $3 and even rising with a 10% service cut. It's more like "What if the politicians take the public transportation? So that they realize what needs to be done." If the government realizes the importance of public transportation, drivers would consider taking the TTC.

[seidoger]

@bassplayer923 On the spot no, I agree. But I believe it's a mentality push that must be made. This city has transportation issues, and a mindset change is needed, even if it takes years. Make people think for a second. "What if... What If i tried public transportation?"

[bassplayer923]

@seidoger Logical error: Most of the people currently driving on those roads won't give up driving their own cars.

[seidoger]

@bassplayer923 Logical error: Most of the people currently on those roads would be on the LRTs. an LRT takes an incredibly smaller mouth of space for the same number of transported people. Sustainability.

[bassplayer923]

I'm so glad that Ford scrapped out this piece of shit plan, Toronto's road is already too congested, there's no room for surface LRT's or Streetcars.