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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.
Mar 27, 2022 · From the first motorized buses, to women drivers in wartime and accessible vehicles, Toronto's public transit system has seen many milestones over its more than 100 years in service — and it's...
- Labour Force Survey Points to Ridership Challenge
- Working from Home Reduces Transit Trips
- Regional and Industrial Variations
- The Road Ahead For Transit
- Data and Definitions
In late January of 2020, the first case of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) was documented in Canada. Less than two months later, public health measures including business and school closures as well as physical distancing prompted a massive shift to remote work and learning, contributing to historic declines in transit ridership during the months th...
In May 2021, the number of Canadians who worked from home was at 5.1 million or 30.6% of the employed labour force, similar to that observed in June 2020.Note 3After declining over last summer from the high of 41.4% in April 2020, the proportion of Canadians working from home dropped to 25.3% during September. However, the proportion slowly increas...
While the pandemic resulted in steep declines in demand for public transit nationally, there were regional differences. From April 2020 to May 2021, transit passengers as a proportion of the same pre-pandemic month averaged just under one-third (30.9%) nationally. In Atlantic Canada, transit agencies in the four provinces maintained more than 40% o...
As working from home and other measures are now extended into a second year, the key question may not be when but rather if public transit ridership will fully recover to pre-pandemic levels. In an earlier study (see Endnote 2), Statistics Canada estimated that a transition to full telework capacity could reduce the total number of commutes in a gi...
Statistics Canada’ Monthly Passenger Bus and Urban Transit Survey (MBUS)collects data on total operating revenues (excluding subsidies) and on total number of passengers (i.e., trips). The survey covers a panel of establishments which have urban transit operations and collectively account for at least 75% of transit operating revenue in each provin...
Oct 29, 2022 · We report on a follow-up survey of over 1,900 people who rode transit regularly prior to the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada. The original survey took place in May 2020 (Palm et al. 2021a, 2021b; Zhang et al. 2020), and the follow-up occurred in March 2021.
- Matthew Palm
Oct 20, 2023 · Transit City, image courtesy of the City of Toronto. Notably missing from Transit City and transit expansion plans in particular during the Miller era was a Downtown Relief Line subway route, though the York University-Vaughan and Yonge North-Richmond Hill extensions were depicted in the map.
Public transit in Toronto started in 1849 with a privately operated transit service. In later years, the city operated some routes, but in 1921 assumed control over all routes and formed the Toronto Transportation Commission to operate them.
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In December 2021, an estimated 86.0 million passenger trips were made on Canada's urban transit networks, up 31.8 million trips or 58.7% from December 2020 levels. This was the second-highest month of passenger trips since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020.
