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Transit Toronto @transittoronto.bsky.social · 17h

Your photos are really cool.

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David McCormack Photography @davidmccormackphotography.ca · 1d

🔢 VIA40 / 🚂 VIA2302 / 🛤 VIA Smiths Falls Sub / 📆 2023-10-17 / #VIARail

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Transit Toronto @transittoronto.bsky.social · 17h

Nice, is that Dutch Dreams?

I found out about that place from "Kenny Vs Spenny". They have really good ice cream.

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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 1d

👀 TTC bus routes are changing Oct 12 in preparation for Eglinton opening

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Transit Toronto @transittoronto.bsky.social · 18h

TTC air-electric PCC 4208 prepares to pull out of Ferry Loop onto York Street.

⏰ August 1960
📸 Unknown/Howard Wayt collection

#TTC #TransitToronto #PCC #Streetcar #Toronto #OldTTC #TakeTheTTC #Tram

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 1d

Seems like everyone’s gone gaga for gondolas these days. Report on the Toronto Zoo Board agenda recommends making a deal with EcoTrek Adventure Group to install a “SkyPod” gondola ride at the zoo. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

Image 1 - Artistic Rendering of SkyPod Experience, showing basket-like gondolas on a cable above a small body of water.

A map of a potential lcation for the gondola ride at the zoo, starting near the entrance and rising above the tree canopy.

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WB62 @wb62.bsky.social · 1d

Fun Fact: Ever heard of the GO Transit Hamilton-Guelph Line? This line was proposed in 1989 by the Think Rail Group, as part of a larger proposal for transit in Ontario.

This line would've travelled from the City of Hamilton to Guelph, linking 3 cities together in the western half of the GTHA.

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Transit Action Alliance of Guelph (TAAG) @taaguelph.bsky.social · 1d

From concerned rider to transit champion! 🏆

Hear from Rodney Chan @chanface.bsky.social of @tritag.ca at the #Guelph Transportation Summit on October 18. Learn how to (re)build advocacy movements & run successful campaigns.

Info & Register www.taaguelph.com/summit

#TransitAdvocacy #UrbanPlanning

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Transit Toronto @transittoronto.bsky.social · 1d

Fifty years ago, Richard Glaze went out to film construction workers repairing Toronto's tracks. This video is the result of his efforts.

#TTC #TakeTheTTC #TransitToronto

TT Film - Track Works!

Everything in every city needs repair work at some point. Just like roads, construction workers have to rip up and replace streetcar tracks as they get old. This work may be disruptive, but it's necessary to keep the city in a state of good repair. Fifty years ago, Richard Glaze went out to film co

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Toronto Railway Museum @torailwaymuseum.bsky.social · 2d

Oct 6, 1990: VIA Rail begins a two-day display of its refurbished stainless steel passenger car equipment at Toronto Union Station. VIA's marketing department named the exhibition "Of Style & Steel" and the Toronto stop was part of a month long transcontinental tour. 1/3

A long train of VIA Rail's freshly refurbished Budd stainless steel passenger cars approaches the east end of Toronto Union Station on October 2, 1990, in preparation for an exhibit that weekend to show off the upgrades to the cars. Photo by Dick Loek, Toronto Star Archives, Toronto Public Library.

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 1d

Regardless if they are moving or parked, single occupancy vehicles are in the way of the city’s ability to move people efficiently. “This is a moment for the TTC to reintroduce itself to people,” Siemiatycki says. “But it has to be top notch.” h/t @iiutoronto.bsky.social www.cp24.com/local/toront...

TTC and Metrolinx planning service adjustments as data show commuting office workers face more gridlock

Both the TTC and Metrolinx say they are planning service adjustments to account for the fact that many workers are being required to comply with more stringent in-office policies, as the latest data s...

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Transit Toronto @transittoronto.bsky.social · 1d

TTC air-electric PCC #4173 turns out of Vincent Loop.

⏰ August 1963 📸 Unknown

#TTC #TransitToronto #Streetcar #PCC #OldTTC #TorontoHistory #TorontoLife #Toronto

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TTCriders @ttcriders.bsky.social · 2d

We’re at the TTC board meeting to speak in favour of their wayfinding strategy! Signage on transit isn’t the best and we are thrilled to see a complete overhaul of the system being considered. Follow along here for updates.

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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 2d

RapidTO Bathurst starting installation this month!!

toronto.us22.list-manage.com/track/click?...

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · 2d

i made a rare city hall appearance today to talk about the value of wayfinding and to shine light on the lacking state of TTC bus stop signs.

a group of us successfully pushed the TTC board to advance the agency's first-ever wayfinding strategy! 🚏

TTCriders @ttcriders.bsky.social · 2d

Fern up next with their amazing sign (that they helped design!!). Joins the call for better way finding system-wide.

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 2d

shoutout to all the talented designers (including fern) who made these cool little signs back in april, and brought them today - this sparked the convo about wayfinding in the first place!

really exciting win fully owed to @ttcriders.bsky.social volunteers passionate about wayfinding 😊

two people in front of a subway station. one person is holding a large streetcar stop information sign that they made

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Transit Action Alliance of Guelph (TAAG) @taaguelph.bsky.social · 3d

12 days until the Transportation Summit #Guelph on October 18! Presentations from @chanface.bsky.social, @ttcriders.bsky.social, @transportaction.ca, @cyclewr.ca, @cgreysongaito.bsky.social, @bicyclemayorguelph.bsky.social, @samhersh01.bsky.social & more!

Free Event! Register @ taaguelph.com/summit

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Transit Toronto @transittoronto.bsky.social · 2d

TTC air-electric PCC #4007 lays over in front of Russell Carhouse.

⏰ June 1, 1953 📸 Richard Glaze

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TriTAG @tritag.ca · 13d

The Region is doing one last virtual info session / webinar about Stage 2 ION tonight from 7 to 8:30pm. Join online to see their presentation and ask questions:

Stage 2 ION

The Region of Waterloo is proposing to extend the ION LRT system

www.engagewr.ca

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Transit Toronto @transittoronto.bsky.social · 12d

HSR Trolley buses in the yard.

📷Unknown
⌚November 1967

Can you guess where this yard was located?

#HSR #Hamilton #HamiltonHistory #TrolleyBus #Bus #ElectricBus

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Transit Toronto @transittoronto.bsky.social · 13d

In 1976 GO Transit decided to test double-decker operation, GO borrowed two-level "Gallery" cars from Chicago & North Western Railroad and tested them in 1976.

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#PublicTransit #GOTransit #TransitToronto #Metrolinx

TT Film - GO's Chicago Gallery Cars

By 1975, it was clear the original equipment purchased by GO Transit for use on its commuter train services were inadequate to the system's needs. But as there was only so much longer the trains could be, GO decided they needed to go taller. To test double-decker operation, GO borrowed two-level "Ga

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Transit Toronto @transittoronto.bsky.social · 13d

On August 18, 2025, Transit Toronto editor James Bow paid a visit to Edmonton.

A highlight of his visit was a ride on the Edmonton Radial Railway Society's High Level Bridge heritage streetcar operation.

This video is the result.

TT Abroad - Edmonton High Level Bridge Streetcar Ride Along

On August 18, 2025, Transit Toronto editor James Bow paid a visit to Edmonton to check out the city's transit options. A highlight of his visit was a ride on the Edmonton Radial Railway Society's High Level Bridge heritage streetcar operation. Arriving in time for the Fringe Festival, he was treated

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Transit Toronto @transittoronto.bsky.social · 13d

First GO Train to the TH&B Train Station in Downtown Hamilton which was then renamed to the Hamilton GO Centre.

📷Unknown
⌚April 29, 1996.

#GOTrain #GOTransit #Metrolinx #Trains #Railways #RailwaysCanada #Railfan #Hamilton

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Transit Toronto @transittoronto.bsky.social · 14d

501 Streetcar passing underneath the Eaton Centre/The Bay bridge.

📷Richard Glaze
⌚July 1980

#TTC #TransitToronto #Streetcar #DowntownToronto #EatonCentre #TheBay #OldTTC #TakeTheTTC

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Transit Toronto @transittoronto.bsky.social · 15d

A PCC on the recently opened 604 Harbourfront LRT passing by the (also recently opened) Skydome.

📷R.McMann
⌚July 2, 1990

#TTC #TransitToronto #TakeTheTTC #Streetcars #PCC #LRT #OldTTC #TorontoHistory #Skydome

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