Photo by ||adam||, from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Staff at Metronlinx, Toronto’s regional transportation agency, are recommending that the Lakeshore and Georgetown GO lines, the system’s busiest, be outfitted for electric trains—a move they say would bring down rail commute times and save operating dollars in the long term. If the Metrolinx board of directors [...]

Photo by smedliposki, from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Yesterday, Ontario’s minister of the environment gave his approval to Metrolinx’s Georgetown South Service Expansion/Union-Pearson Rail Link (GSSE/UPRL) project. The minister’s decision is the final step in the project’s provincial environmental assessment process. The project will be a boon to transit in the GTA, but not everyone [...]

Photo by sarnya from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Yesterday, Metrolinx released their draft Regional Transportation Plan or RTP [PDF], their much-anticipated proposal for systematically tackling transit issues in the GTHA (the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area). Many of the key goals are ones we’ve heard before, though they’ve rarely been presented as part of a [...]

Operating a public transit system is a difficult job, continually plagued by budget cuts, aging infrastructure and rampant customer dissatisfaction. We’ve always been fans of GO Transit, however, which has generally proven to be clean and reliable despite being operated by the Government of Ontario (hence, the acronym “GO”). When the 2005-06 provincial budget was [...]