Ontario On the Move 🇺🇦

Exploring the world of transport in Ontario and beyond. Advocating for safe, sustainable transport.

[Ontario On the Move 🇺🇦 @move_ont]

Two publicly-owned railways at work in Barrie. Long term thinking made this scene possible.

In the face of all the setbacks to rail corridor preservation in Ontario, it's important to reinforce what can be gained by preparing for the future.

Full post:
https://t.co/H1RUtfTZmj

[Alex Glista 🇨🇦 @AlexanderGlista]

Schedules for new GO Transit service to Stratford are now live. Service starts Monday, July 6th.
• ~ 2h30min trip
• Weekday service focuses on Stratford to Toronto commuter patterns
• Weekend service focuses on TOR to Stratford tourism

Schedules: https://t.co/MiSgGdxCc3

[Alex Glista 🇨🇦 @AlexanderGlista]

Not stopping @altotrain at Toronto Union Station would be a diabolically bad decision. cc: @stevenmackinnon

[More Transit Southern Ontario @moretransitso]

Stratford GO train schedule from MPP @Rae_Matt

Weekday AM: 6:16 -> 7:08 (52 minutes) Stratford -> Kitchener. 7:08 -> 8:47 (99 minutes) Kitchener -> Union

Weekday PM: 4:52 -> 6:36 (104 minutes) Union -> Kitchener. 6:36 -> 7:28 (52 minutes) Kitchener -> Stratford. 1/2

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

Such a mindf*ck. The "reason" is mostly apparently because we are too incompetent and so our apparent thought leaders solution is to give up.

I wouldn't want to be stuck somewhere with no food, one imagines op-eds preceding our starvation "Walking is dangerous and risky".

[Michael @mikethenavyguy]

Wait till you hear the Trans Canada Highway doesn't make money either. Or that Airports are largely giant non profit enterprises.

[Alex Glista 🇨🇦 @AlexanderGlista]

Today, the first Northlander test train made its way from Toronto to North Bay. A huge milestone for better connecting all of Ontario.

[Alex Glista 🇨🇦 @AlexanderGlista]

Big news! The Province of Ontario has purchased 205 kilometres of track (Newmarket Sub) from CN Rail between Washago and North Bay to support the return of the Northlander. Public ownership of rail corridors means better passenger service! More here: https://t.co/ieLOjmRRjt

[Alex Glista 🇨🇦 @AlexanderGlista]

The tourism potential for a Barrie Line GO Transit extension to Collingwood/Blue Mountains on an abandoned, publicly-owned rail corridor is next level. Only 2 hours from Toronto. Ontario, let’s get this done. More annual tourists visit here than Banff National Park.

[Alex Glista 🇨🇦 @AlexanderGlista]

I love that we’re putting red back into the TTC subway network

[Alex Glista 🇨🇦 @AlexanderGlista]

BREAKING: The TTC is getting new Line 2 subway trains (55 trains), manufactured right here in Ontario in Thunder Bay. They’re based on Alstom’s Metropolis platform, and look extremely modern. More here: https://t.co/P1CU9563YN

[Alex Glista 🇨🇦 @AlexanderGlista]

Crazy to me that Ontario is practically the only Province building and spending on intercity rail. In terms of Canada’s largest Provinces, Alberta is in early planning stages (let’s see if it actually happens), and BC and Quebec are nowhere to be found. Huge opportunity.

[Polling Canada @CanadianPolling]

Separatism is stupid when Quebec talks about it

And it's stupid when Alberta talks about it

[Polling Canada @CanadianPolling]

Separatist parties of any political stripe in this country are deeply cringe

[Polling Canada @CanadianPolling]

Thank god

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

World Series, Stadium Edition: Dodger Stadium vs. Rogers Centre 🤔

[Toronto Railway Museum @TORailwayMuseum]

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

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

Jane Jacobs was writing over half a century ago about how planners possess a pathological urge to replace productive, vital organs of urban economy with lifeless, oversized parks and "open space"

We have the diagnosis, but the disease is still with us

[Gareth Dennis @GarethDennis]

🚨 IMPORTANT REMINDER 🚨
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A TRACKLESS TRAM!

[Transport Action Canada @TransportAction]

Rail service would provide a boost to tourism and a lifeline to smaller communities and First Nations along the route.
https://t.co/FvRbgwDm2H

[Toronto Railway Museum @TORailwayMuseum]

Aug 6, 1927: His Royal Highness, Edward, the Prince of Wales—later, briefly, King Edward VIII—officially opens @unionstationTO. The Royal train, hauled by brand new Canadian National 4-8-4 Northern No. 6120, arrived at a temporary wooden platform at 10:30 AM. 1/3