If they’re lucky, it arrives as scheduled, but if not they have to wait a little longer. Once they get on board, on the city’s busiest routes they’re often condemned to crawl along, surrounded by a sea of private single-occupant vehicles. City officials and transit advocates are hoping to fix Tahal’s commute, and that of thousands others like her. The philosophy behind the proposed changes is simple: buses and streetcars carry more people than private cars, and changing how roadways work to give transit vehicles precedence is the most efficient use of space. Given the heavy ridership of lines like these, small interventions could deliver better transit service to thousands of TTC users, while being significantly less expensive and quicker to implement than building multi-billion-dollar new lines.

Source: thestar July 09, 2019 09:00 UTC