Everything About Toronto's MASSIVE Transit Transformation

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Hi, my name's Reece. I'm a passionate Creator, Transportation Planner, and Software Developer, interested in rapid transportation all around my home base of Toronto, Canada, as well as the whole world!

[lgmckay]

Hi Rees, as a former TTC operator I'm amazed by how much I learn about transit from your videos; you should be the Minister of Transportation.

[hollr]

Cool, but I really want so see a high speed rail line.

[djdj]

Toronto starts looking like a city that can possibly be the opposite of what American cities are at the moment. It's so convenient having a metro or regional rail leaving every few minutes.
While this is easily achievable in urban areas, connecting suburban or even rural areas in an attractive way is a lot more complicated.

[Steve_McMillen]

Toronto transit is really underappreciated. Especially when comparing it to some other cities in North America. Looking forward to seeing how a fully integrated system will look and function once all the different projects have completed.

[maximnossevitch]

All of this is very exciting and great to know! But without merging the transit networks, I think it's a missed opportunity. One of the worst things about transit in these areas is that you have to pay multiple fares. I don't know maybe it changed since I moved out of Toronto but paying $8 in fares per direction to get to University was a pain in the ass

[Fanw]

Thank you Reece for this extremely informative overview of transit in you home city. (Good to hear that weekend ridership on GO services is back to pre-Covid levels. I think this is also true of a lot of other transit systems - perhaps worldwide. This 'weekend recovery' underlines the fact that public transit is not just for 'work' purposes, but also serves leisure activities.)

[eddietat]

One thing is for certain: Union Station will still be under construction.

[TheHalomaster]

I use toronto transit most weekends and I can say that it will be nice to finally ride the Eglington line once it opens. Im definitely going to try and be there on opening day

[andrew]

I'd say Bikeshare is an exciting piece of the public transit ecosystem too. The system is getting lots of ebikes and gradually growing to cover most of the City of Toronto. It would be great if Metrolinx uploaded it and integrated it with transit seamlessly across the whole region.

[tahirrizwan]

As someone who was born and raised in Amsterdam and moved to Toronto 2 years ago, it’s super exciting to see everything unfold at such crazy speed right in front of my eyes. Like it makes me feel really at home here.

I love comparing infrastructures of both these cities. I’m super excited for the Egglington LRT because it fills a big gap between West and East Toronto besides the 512 streetcar and the 2. Koreatown is changing with Mirvish Village, The One on Bloor and Yonge, condos are being built everywhere even wiping out parking lots, and Waterfront is getting new developments like :O

I’m seeing so much changing so fast! Love the content you put out since I’m strictly reliant on the ttc and had my fair share of traveling in diff cities with public transport!

[EppelheimTV]

"People find it kinda funny that I talk a lot about Toronto..." Yeah, why should you not talk a lot about Toronto, it's your hometown, so naturally you know most about this place.

I don't get why people complain about this. This would be like watching Geoff Marshall and then complaining why the content is about London and the UK.

[nanaokyere]

Wow. I realized there's A LOT happening in Toronto, but didn't know this much! I know that in 10 years, Toronto will be the most talked about city in North America and maybe the world in terms of how much transit is built and how it could stack up to older bigger cities. Line 5 & 6 will be the first to be done next year and those alone will switch the game up. Reese didn't even mention that the city is looking to get different types of LRT vehicles for the Eglinton east extension, splitting line 5 into two lines heading north east to Malvern because of how complicated the tunneling would be with the line 2 extension under construction as I type this. Overall I'm very excited to see Toronto transit go from just a 2.5 line subway system to 5.

[justcallmeD]

I do really love living in Toronto and seeing all the transit projects

[noeldass]

Can I just say I absolutely LOVE how enthusiastic you are when you speak about transit in general, but especially in this video about Toronto! You’ve made miss it even more!

[trodg]

Just visited Toronto for a week, the transit system was really easy to learn and was an effective way to travel the city

[FalconsEye]

One of the rising stars of the continent

[wtspman]

As much as expansion projects are exciting, there are some systemic challenges in Toronto to the effective movement of surface transit. I am thinking mainly of transit priority signalling. It seems like there had always been lots of talk about what TPS could offer, but then the members of council that represent suburban wards stand in the way of effective implementation. They will fight tooth an nail for their car-driving constituents, but they ignore the needs of the vastly more numerous people who travel on transit.

[GordonSlamsay]

I just took toronto transit for the first time in years (I'm here on a staycation) and was honestly impressed with how quick and honestly comfortable it was. I know the ttc has some systemic issues, but I was overall impressed. also the old subway trains on line 2 are better than line 1 trains. something about the aesthetic.

[lucky]

I remember the huge stink that suburbanites and a few restaurants on king made when the king street pilot project went live. I'm so glad it turned out to be a major success and is now a permanent change.

[mischaskoropad]

Reece is one of the few guys that actually knows what he’s talking about in regards to transit and rail transportation. He uses actual facts and plausible ideas in his videos.

I work in the industry and been following him for a few months.