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Nov 27, 2023 · One-time funding will build back ridership through more frequent service as well as the affordable, convenient, efficient and safe operation of the subway system and is conditional on the city establishing a new Transit Rider Safety Commitment that includes the increased presence of police or safety officers on and near transit, the continued ...
Sep 20, 2024 · The Ontario government announced the completion of Toronto's Finch West LRT on Friday, but neglected to share an opening date or even a rough timeline for the overdue transit line.. In a press ...
Mar 27, 2022 · TORONTO — The province has officially broken ground on the Ontario Line Exhibition Station, marking the start of construction for the new subway line that will support the delivery of better and faster transit for the Greater Toronto Area.
Jul 24, 2024 · Today, as a part of the New Deal between Ontario and Toronto, the City and Province announced updates on a plan to accelerate Gardiner Section 2 construction work and improve traffic flows. The Gardiner plays a vital role in the city’s local and regional transportation network and helps to sustain the country’s economy through the movement ...
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In 1974, the CBC reported that the province had purchased an "unproven" system using elevated tracks that would chart transit routes along existing railways and hydro rights-of-way. They would spend $750 million on a 56-mile network comprising five routes, three of which would "terminate in Metro centre," with the other two being crosstown routes. ...
Eight years later, the Progressive Conservatives were still the government in power and reporter Robert Fisher described traffic congestion as a "major problem" that the province was ready to confront. To that end, Transportation Minister Jim Snow presented a roomful of municipal leaders with a regional transit plan on a map almost as tall as he wa...
After governing the province for 42 years, the Progressive Conservatives were out, and it may have seemed like a good opportunity for Toronto to get the funding it needed for transit. That same month, a municipal committee reviewed a report called Network 2011 that envisioned what transit would look like in that then-faraway year. It would build a ...
A year and a half later, Network 2011 had been refined, as reported by Lois Warren. First would come the Sheppard subway line extending from Yonge Street to the Scarborough Town Centre. (This line did open, in 2002, but did not go to Scarborough.) "To take pressure off the Yonge-Bloor intersection," the line from Pape station to Union Station was n...
Aside from being annoying for drivers who probably figured everyone else could take transit, traffic congestion had another effect: pollution. "Every additional passenger on a subway, bus or GO train represents one more small step in a battle won in the fight to preserve the plant," said Premier David Peterson as he announced the next transit plan ...
Premier Bob Rae brought out a throng of helmet-wearing construction workers to announce the NDP's "exciting" $1.5-billion transit plan for Toronto in 1993. Rather than showing off any new plans, Rae pledged to "speed up" previously announced projects, said reporter Colleen McEdwards. That included an extension all the way to York University which h...
David Miller had been elected twice as Toronto's mayor, and Dalton McGuinty had accomplished the same as the Liberal premier of Ontario when they got together to announce full provincial funding for a plan, developed by the city, called Transit City. The plan relied less on subways and more on rapid transit on major east-west routes like Finch and ...
On November 4, 2019, the Province of Ontario (the “Province”) and the City of Toronto (the “City”) (collectively, the “parties”) jointly announced the “Ontario-Toronto Transit Partnership” (the “Partnership”).
May 11, 2021 · On February 10, the Government of Canada announced a plan for $14.9 billion in new public transit funding over eight years, including $3 billion in ongoing annual transit funding beginning in 2026-27 - from major shovel-ready projects to electric buses to rural transit to cycling and walking paths.
