TIL that Metrolinx (the GTHA's transit agency) is planning to use morse code patterns of place names as their anti bird strike glass pattern:
Interim Metrolinx CEO keeping quiet on Eglinton LRT opening date
Metrolinx interim CEO Michael Lindsay deftly stickhandled questions from reporters about an opening date for the Eglinton West LRT which is years behind schedule.
#transit #politics #transportation #Canada #EglintonLRT #Metrolinx
https://globalnews.ca/news/11121626/eglinton-lrt-metrolinx-opening-date/
Interim Metrolinx CEO keeping quiet on Eglinton LRT opening date
Metrolinx interim CEO Michael Lindsay deftly stickhandled questions from reporters about an opening date for the Eglinton West LRT which is years behind schedule.
#transit #politics #transportation #Canada #EglintonLRT #Metrolinx
https://globalnews.ca/news/11121626/eglinton-lrt-metrolinx-opening-date/
Metrolinx added 36 VPs to the sunshine list last year. Critics want it to ‘read the room’
The average salary for a vice president at Metrolinx last year was roughly $243,000. In 2023, it was a little lower at $237,000.
#money #politics #salary #Metrolinx #Ontariopolitics #sunshinelist
https://globalnews.ca/news/11106458/metrolinx-sunshine-list-increase/
Metrolinx renaming Eglinton Crosstown LRT’s Ontario Science Centre station
Last year, the province abruptly announced it would close the Ontario Science Centre citing structural issues, ending its operations the same day and starting to empty the hub.
#transit #politics #accident #EglintonCrosstownLRT #Metrolinx #Ontariopolitics
https://globalnews.ca/news/11101377/metrolinx-to-rename-eglinton-crosstown-lrts-ontario-science-centre-station/
In the Star, @GraphicMatt on risks to Eglinton Crosstown success:
“Together, these two failures — poor route management and bad or non-existent transit priority — could easily spell disaster for the Eglinton LRT once it starts service. I hope I’m wrong. Especially because better management and signal priority on the surface section of the Eglinton line would likely translate to better management of other surface routes.”
Yikes. @shawnmicallef.bsky.social shares rumour the TTC’s terrible ex-CEO Rick Leary could be the new CEO of Metrolinx.
He’ll do whatever Queen’s Park tells him to do, including starve the agency. So much for expanded regional transit and on-time performance?
#TTC #Metrolinx #TOPoli #Transit #PublicTransit
https://bsky.app/profile/shawnmicallef.bsky.social/post/3ll2td3qyfc2f
“After 13 years, sources close to the Eglinton Crosstown LRT project say the long-awaited line is finally expected to welcome transit riders in September.” - Toronto Star
Ontario Line construction site mismanagement led this week to someone being run over in a crosswalk just blocks from my home, in a residential area with hundreds of kids.
The truck wasn’t following the official route, and this petition from the Pape Village Safety Action Council is pushing for better.
Live in Ontario? Your tax dollars are paying for this. Please consider signing and sharing.
Updated bus route signage beginning to appear around Toronto to prepare for the opening of Line 5, surprisingly early given lack of government communication.
In an interesting wayfinding choice, in this location only the future route number is listed, not the current route still in operation, and the temporary signage notes that the existing route will still service the stop.
Premier Doug Ford has directed Metrolinx to study expanding GO Transit service along the Kitchener and Milton lines by diverting freight rails.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-metrolinx-go-train-expansion-1.7426944
Free transit and fireworks: Everything you need to know for New Year’s Eve in Toronto
The City of Toronto is putting on a 10-minute waterfront fireworks display, while both Metrolinx and the TTC are offering free transit riders into the night and early morning.
#NewYearsEve #fireworks #freetransit #Toronto #waterfront #Canada #CityofToronto #Metrolinx
https://globalnews.ca/news/10938160/toronto-new-year-eve-2024-details/
TTC plans to redirect downtown access with potential lineup on New Year’s Eve
The TTC said it would be restricting access to Union Station Subway Station and make people enter the station via the Brookfield Place doors on Bay Street, south of Front Street.
#TTC #NewYearsEve #UnionStation #BayStreet #FrontStreet #Canada #Metrolinx #TorontoSubway
https://globalnews.ca/news/10934774/union-station-ttc-lineup-system-2024/
This is an excellent short video from BC Translink showing how dedicated transit lanes move more people than mixed traffic lanes, allowing those who have an option to choose transit.
This same concept applies to dedicated space for active transportation like walking and cycling - mixed car traffic is the lowest-capacity way to move people around!
Beware of politicians drawing lines on maps. Always.
John Tory’s SmartTrack, imagined as 13 new stations along GO tracks open for business in 2021, has now shrunk *again* to just 3 stations, maybe open by 2029.
#Metrolinx kills off Triplinx, effective January 10th. https://www.triplinx.ca/en/service-updates/17/Disrupt/important-update-from-triplinx/details/42f3fbf7-61a0-4f44-ad1a-25ae5459894f
It launched in mid 2015 (https://transittoronto.ca/archives/weblog/2015/05/19-metrolinx_.shtml) - so it lived for slightly less than 10 years. Shorter than Eglinton LRT construction.
‘Cameron MacLeod, executive director of the transit advocacy group CodeRedTO, said he is skeptical about the TTC's internal date for a possible opening.
"There have been a lot of false starts and lack of communication about this project," he told CBC Toronto.
"Unfortunately, we're in a situation where even June 1 feels optimistic."
MacLeod said the Crosstown debacle has seriously harmed the public's trust in the province's ability to deliver transit.’
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/eglinton-crosstown-opening-june-ttc-1.7400691
New Metrolinx CEO promises to ‘start talking’ in effort to finish Eglinton Crosstown LRT
On Monday, Infrastructure Ontario CEO Michael Lindsay was appointed as the head of the provincial transit agency Metrolinx to replace the departing Phil Verster.
#transportation #appointment #Ontario #Politics #Fordgovernment #Metrolinx #Ontariopolitics
https://globalnews.ca/news/10901709/ontario-metrlinx-michael-lindsay-plan/
The epic failures of #Metrolinx are one thing. It’s time to give up altogether on the government agency that’s responsible for our endless delays
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As other provinces (such as Quebec) want to imitate the Ontario model of having a transit agency above what local transit agencies can do. More and more people realize that it's not working at all in Ontario.
Global News: For the past five years, outgoing Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster has earned a $12,000 vehicle allowance despite not having owned a car, Global News has learned, raising questions about why the perk was offered to the head of a transit agency.
