Mayor Ford has requested that the TTC develop a new transit plan consistent with his platform. Work on a new plan is underway. For more info on the current plan see the Metrolinx website at http://www.metrolinx.com This is an external site and will open in a new window.

 

Transit City is one of the largest transit expansion projects in the world today - and it’s happening right here in Toronto.  By replacing older, conventional buses with modern, rapid, light-rail vehicles on some of the city’s busiest streets, Transit City will transform Toronto by increasing mobility, strengthening business, offering a greener travel alternative, and enhancing our quality of life.

Moving Toronto into the future

Light-rail transit is coming to Toronto for the first time. It’s the best solution the meet the city’s growing need for modern, rapid, accessible transit.

Already in use in major cities in Canada and around the globe, light-rail transit is quickly becoming the preferred mode for transit expansion projects because it is efficient, sustainable, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective. Light-rail transit is successful in dozens of cities including Calgary, Paris, Zurich, Minneapolis, Seattle, Phoenix and Sydney, Australia. LRT is also flexible. Toronto’s LRT will travel underground for 10km on Eglinton Avenue from Keele Street to Laird Drive and underneath Highway 404 on Sheppard Avenue from Don Mills subway station to Consumers Road.

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Transit City Route Map

The Transit City vision consists of eight new lines - four of which are currently being planned and built with funding from Metrolinx. Metrolinx: The Big Move RTP This is an external site and it will open a new window

Additional financial support from the federal government is provided for the Sheppard Avenue East LRT.

With expanded capacity to carry up to 175 million riders per year, Transit City will improve mobility and enhance Toronto’s economic, social and environmental quality of life.

To find out more visit Current Projects Current Projects.

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On April 1 2009, the Province of Ontario announced full funding for the construction of the priority projects - the Eglinton, Finch West and the Scarborough Rapid Transit lines.

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