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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈

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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The TTC is finally considering increasing streetcar stop spacing, active gap supervision on subway, and introducing mid-route timing points on surface network. Please consider filling this out to help bring TTC operations into the 21st century.
surveymonkey.com
TTC Service Standards Review - Round One Survey
We are reviewing and updating our Service Standards, and we want your feedback on the options we’re exploring. Learn about the options by taking this survey.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
oh how ive missed this damn city
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The first of my new prototype bus stop signs are up! Worked on the design for these for months and excited to see them roll out.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
pls carney gib train
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
neat
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Anyone know if there are technical limitations to getting a Tokyo-level GTFS feed in NA? Despite multiple operators (and presumably feed publishers), station layouts, entry locations, local/rapid/express patterns, pl. #, multiple interlines, pattern switching are all extremely detailed and accurate.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Changing from Line 1 to Line 2 at Bloor-Yonge
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Jiaxing LRT. Unfortunately, it seems that despite their reputation for transit prowess, even China sucks at light rail. There seems to be a 25 limit through intersections plus a 15 limit around every corner. The max speed tops out at 60 for short stretches. (They've basically built a Chinese Line 6)
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I might be the first person to use @transit.app in Hong kong
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hello yellow GO bus
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Last ride on the 222 before the R2 arrives at Metrotown. Stops are all poured and ready for September!
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
New GO bus services launching Sep 8! Route 43 will provide a one seat ride between McMaster, Meadowvale, and Mount Pleasant. Peak trips will save McMaster students up to half an hour vs current services. Route 30 will see new express trips to 407 and route 67 will see trips extended into Keswick.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
it's the little things that remind me of home
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Union station presents: 1 billion cancelled flights to montreal
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
family photo
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Am*rican spelling 🤢🤢🤢
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Part 2
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Finally bought Illustrator again and back to crayoning Union signage. Thoughts on this concept?
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Big improvements to TTC alerts in Transit app!
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Queen diversion is a clear demonstration of the City's insolent disrespect for its citizens. Queen car riders are nearly all Toronto residents while most auto drivers are looking for the shortest route to/from the DVP/401 and pay no tax to Toronto. Yet car riders bear the brunt of the delay.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
For a while it seemed like it was getting better. But as of 10 Aug 2026, the RSZ situation is almost in the worst state it has ever been. It's incredibly frustrating that we've suffered through months and years of early closures, weekend closures, and even weekday closures and this is the result.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The Metro-REM transfer signage at Edouard Montpetit could use some work. These tiny texts are the only evidence that there is a connection at all at the platform level. Only once you reach the ticket concourse is there actual large signage directing you to the REM platforms.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Anse à l'orme is... quiet
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The new A3 branch of the REM is way busier than I thought it would be so soon after opening, especially in the reverse peak direction.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
never a bad summer in montreal
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
visited old elm for the first time by train marking 70/71 stations visited on the GO rail network. cute and somewhat picturesque station that really doesn't feel like you're still in the GTA. The windy climb up the escarpment felt like a rural branch line rather than a GO service.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Three charts of streetcar performance I made using the TTC service summary archives demonstrating change in streetcar PM peak round-trip times, peak headways, and number of cars in service from 2000 to 2025. *Headway and car charts include all branches combined
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Old and new at Osgoode station
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Thanks Aidan from Toronto Today for this great rundown of the big ticket action items that could speed up streetcar service.
torontotoday.ca
Toronto’s streetcars are the slowest in the world. Could removing stops up the speed?
A decades-long debate is coming to a head as the TTC ponders ways to speed up its notoriously slow streetcars
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
love when we close lanes and create traffic for no reason..need to be cracking down on this shit
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
sooon.......
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Since 2015, there are only 8 daytime bus routes left that do not operate past 10pm 7 days a week. The 115 Silver Hills is one of such routes and one can see why it was left as limited service. The route largely duplicates the 95 and 51, primarily catering to commuters in the upscale Silver Hills.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It's fascinating to see how poorly the 504 B and A services blend even when you take traffic and crowding out of the factor. Sunday midday is a perfect time to watch streetcar ops given the light loading and traffic conditions. Service eastbound runs perfectly in pairs even with no obstructions.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Something something transit priority corridor
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Routes 32 and 34 reported 52k combined daily ridership in 2024. Line 5 is reporting 75k (⬆️44% - not including remaining routes 32 and 34 segments) Route 36 Finch West reported 40k daily in 2024 but Line 6 is reporting just 25k (⬇️38% - not including Humberwood segment replaced by route 906)
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
These Dollarama-quality LRVs have single-handedly marred transit systems across Eastern Canada for nearly a decade. We need to bite the bullet and put the Alstom Citadis Spirit in the bin once and for all for we don't know how much more grief this model will bring our systems in the coming years.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The Habourfront 509 is currently running entirely in its own ROW with no EOL conflict with the Spadina 510 and yet still manages to end up in this state. Traffic, switches, and signals are not the complete story to the problem streetcar network.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Really absurd when two streetcars miss a complete light cycle because neither driver can agree who goes first across the intersection (only one car is allowed to cross a junction at once to prevent collisions)
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Tried the new east-west shuttle. The service today was only $5. 15 mins from Cherry to Bathurst is awesome and beats every other mode of transport. Don't think I would pay $15 for this though.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
runtime auditing with the greatest sustenance known to man: timmies grilled cheese
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
:/
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
townsley loop
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Signage for the new Ontario Science Centre is up on Bay.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Alternative version with subway and light rail included too
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Spent a few weeks editing the official GO bus and train maps to create this version. Additionally, bus routes are sorted by corridor and frequency instead of just being based on having train connections or not.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
it's exhausting how we can put all the signs down and paint hatches on the road yet 3 iq drivers will still wait for a traffic signal that never turns green because it's an illegal movement.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The beautiful new Portland St cycle lane and the awesome modal filter at Wellington is now active. Looks like the signals at King are still being finalised.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The temporary 311 car might be the first scheduled streetcar service on Bathurst to run all the way to St Clair in decades.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Dufferin station and the Dufferin bus feels like a whole universe apart from where it was same time last year. Bus lanes, exit numbering, e-ink displays, proper LCD programming. They're really hammering out improvements.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
So I wrote to my councillor a few months ago asking for improved enforcement of the rush hour King lanes between Dufferin and Bathurst. Let's see if this does anything.
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