Toronto's Wasted Rail Lines - Part 1: Problems

Toronto's transit network is much more than just the 70 km of TTC subway lines! There's also a 126 km heavy rail network (GO Transit) within the city that has so much potential but is underused for many reasons. Even the ongoing GO Expansion fails to significantly improve GO Transit within Toronto.

In Part 1, I'll be focusing on the problems of the GO Transit network within the City of Toronto. Stay tuned for Part 2 where I go through the solutions in more detail!

0:00 Toronto's Network Today
3:15 Infrequent Service
4:57 Separate Fares
6:10 Stop Spacing
6:50 Difficult Transfers
8:16 Limited Infrastructure
10:17 Solutions

Sources:
Diab, Ehab & Akbari, Saidal & Nurul Habib, Khandker & Shalaby, Amer. (2019). Commuting Mode Shares in the Commuter Rail Catchment Areas: Trends, Status, and the Role of Policy Interventions in the Case of GO Transit in Greater Toronto.

Greater Toronto Area Transit Map (David Pritchard)
http://davidpritchard.org/project/gta...

Ridership Graph (Steve Munro)
https://stevemunro.ca/2019/11/25/metr...

GO Expansion Map (Blaixx)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Toronto "Rapid Transit" Map (ritachi9077)
https://www.deviantart.com/ritachi907...

Canadian Rail Atlas

"Space Jazz" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

#transit #publictransit #publictransport #toronto #greatertorontoarea #TTC #GO #GOTransit #GOExpansion #Metrolinx #train #trains