GO Transit passengers might be in for a shock after Labour Day as new timetables and new penalties come into effect. A lot of weekend trains are wiped from the schedule. seanmarshall.ca/2026/08/29/g...

Can’t say I’m surprised. The Brampton Chrysler plant has been in limbo for years. But I have an idea: the federal gov’t should buy it, leasing it to rail manufacturers that want to bid on contracts but don’t have a manufacturing presence here (Hitachi, CRRC, CAF, etc.). www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Stellantis is considering closing and selling Brampton Assembly plant, Unifor says | CBC News

A national union says it was told by Stellantis this week that it is seriously considering the closure and sale of the Brampton Assembly Plant.

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Light Trucks disproportionately endanger other road users yet we still allow them to be sold without any speed limiting devices. Not even a 110 km/h speed limiter.

David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Which vehicles most endanger the drivers of other cars? Giant pickup trucks — and the Dodge Charger Source: www.iihs.org/news/detail/...

Today is the first day of permanent GO train service to Stratford. What we need now is for Metrolinx to purchase the rail corridor and upgrade track to increase speed. Stratford -> Kitchener currently takes 53 minutes, but it can be under 30 minutes with simple track upgrades.

Transit Toronto@transittoronto.bsky.social · 2mo ago

First day of GO Train service to Stratford, Ontario. 📸 James Bow #GOTransit #Railfanning #Metrolinx #Trains

Subcompact cars are no longer sold in Canada, yet they're still available in St-Pierre & Miquelon just 10km from the Canadian border. This is because SP&M accepts both Canadian and EU auto regulations, avoiding the need for automakers to develop a North-American variant to sell there.

I've spent a lot of time monitoring train movements and the track owner whose dispatching seems the most hostile to Via is not CN or CPKC, it's the Government of Ontario. Others are noticing this as well:

Sean Marshall@seanyyz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

CN is not the only reason why VIA trains are often so late arriving in Toronto. seanmarshall.ca/2026/05/06/h...

Surely if Light Duty Trucks don't meet the standards of passenger cars we should at least mandate automatic speed enforcement on them to minimize their harm. Light trucks are theoretically for tradespeople, why do they need to go more than 110 km/h?

Oh The Urbanity!@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A tale of two vehicles.

Happy construction season to those who celebrate!

@viarailcanada.bsky.social This is not an acceptable situation for paying customers on a 5-hour journey. If there's no window, don't put seats there. How about putting a luggage rack so you can relax the baggage limits?

Line 5's top speed is now 80 km/h in tunnels! Removing unnecessary speed restrictions is 3️⃣ on our ten-point plan, and a great first step to put #Eglinton on the fast track! Now it’s time for the surface section of Line 5, Line 6 and the #streetcars to follow suit. See more here:

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Home of the 10-point plan to save Toronto's streetcar system.

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This raised crossing is extremely effective at reducing speeds where pedestrians cross. Speed limit is 30 km/h on this local street but traffic slows to maybe 15 or so at the ped crossing. Draper Street, Toronto

a great plan. the big takeaway here is that the plan needs to be implemented in full along entire routes to make a real noticeable impact on commutes and win public favour there is no one singular silver bullet. this will be one of *the* election issues going into the october mayoral race.

FastTrackTO@fast-track.to · 6mo ago

Today FastTrackTO is officially launching and releasing our 10 point plan to modernize the Toronto Streetcar network. An iconic symbol of the city that could be fantastic with some achievable, common sense and low cost changes. The plan if implemented would transform the city. fast-track.to (1/2)

I checked my copy of the 2022 Streetcar Rule Book (my employer has an electronic copy because of a project). There are a lot of speed restrictions. For intersections, pedestrian crossings, switches, even passing streetcars. And Queensway, one of the best RoWs has a 10km/hr intersection limit!

With lagging left turns, the left turn phase follows the streetcar phase every cycle. This makes no difference to streetcar delay, and thus, minimal benefit to riders.

In this article, the City reveals that the Transit Signal Priority on the Eglinton LRT only allows green extensions up to 16 seconds, which is far less than the 30 s maximum that's programmed on streetcar lines and on Finch toronto.citynews.ca/2026/02/17/l...

Ottawa's downtown protected cycling lanes may be cleared of snow, but they are not cleared of parked cars...

I like when trains go zoom

Only in Ontario would we install 7 signal heads at a midblock pedestrian signal. 4 transit signal heads and 3 traffic signal heads, for 1 transit lane and 2 vehicle lanes. (There's also a bike lane but it doesn't get a signal, haha)

It was nice of the maintenance crew to give my bike a much-needed wash while I was at work. I just wish they had taken my insulated helmet off the handlebars first. It's soaking wet and it's -10 degrees out for the ride home

There’s your Ontario-built equipment going up against an unarmed crowd.

Dumb Megan@dmbmeg.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

Just because e-bikes are less hazardous than cars doesn't mean we should accept unnecessary hazards. Canada/US allow much faster and heavier vehicles to operate without license or insurance than other countries. Is it really so unacceptable to limit e-bikes to 25km/h / 250W like other countries?

@mlongfield.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Difference between 25 km/h to 32 km/h is not hazardous, especially for vehicles 1/50th the mass of a car or truck. And it might sound scary saying 750w, but we're talking about 1 HP. Fear is being fueled by a lot of misinformation (and likely prejudice). Policy shouldn't be based on perception.

Daily reminder that the primary benefit of railway electrification is not to reduce railway emissions. It is to enable faster acceleration which reduces travel time and thereby increases frequency without adding operating cost. That then attracts more riders and thereby more revenue.

Caltrain@caltrain.com · 8mo ago

Caltrain recent ridership trend.

The Government of Canada having foreign travel advisories for "exercise high degree of caution" for most of Western Europe, but still keeping the USA in full green, is insane. travel.gc.ca/travelling/a...

The TTC has imposed a 25 km/h limit on the surface portions of the subway, presumably due to freezing rain yesterday. But making the subway slow and infrequent will encourage people to drive on slippery roads instead. It seems like "add a speed restriction" is the TTC's solution to every concern.

It's so frustrating when the Google AI summary has clearly found the information I'm looking for, but it's not in the sources it links. I can't cite the AI summary because it's often wrong. Even here it claims GO Expansion is a project of ProRail, the rail infrastructure operator of the Netherlands

At the back cab of the Finch LRT you can see the speedometer, including the programmed speed limits. It would be useful if a pair of transit advocates could film a full ride with both the view out the front and the speedometer at the back so we can document the speed limits youtu.be/lectZKgdwTo

Finch W LRT speedometer - Albion to Kipling

YouTube video by Ontario Traffic Man Clips

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TTC Planning & Engineering has been proposing and implementing exactly this type of infrastructure for decades but they face opposition from the City. Queue Jump Lanes constructed by the TTC include: WB Lawrence & Dufferin EB Steeles & Don Mills WB Finch & Yonge EB Finch & Markham

Damien Moule@damienmoule.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I do think this type of approach of identifying and fixing bottlenecks with targetted cheap transit priority, is the most best thing the TTC could be doing and blows away basically everything in the TTC's capital budget from a value perspective.

In 2021 The City exempted the Finch LRT from the 50 km/h speed limit (allowing it to go 60), citing the importance of short round trip times. Unfortunately the TTC later enacted 25 km/h intersection speed limits, making 60 km/h unattainable between signals anyway. www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...

If they can cut 9 minutes each way off the scheduled travel time, here's how frequent the service would be with the existing number of drivers and vehicles: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This isn't something that needs to be funded through a budget. Signals on Eglinton and Finch already have signal priority installed. The problem is the way these signals prioritize (or don't) transit. Such as left turning cars going before LRT vehicles. 1/2

Josh Matlow@joshmatlow.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It’s wrong that the Finch & Eglinton LRTs don’t have signal priority. Billions of dollars were spent, only for “rapid transit” to go slower than the buses it replaced. Last Spring at Council, I moved for signal priority on these lines. The 2026 budget must fund this priority.