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Steve Munro

Steve Munro

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  • English
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Recent Articles

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A Note to Would-Be Politicians

I have received a few comments from candidates for various offices. Please note that I do not intend to post any of these unless they bear directly on the issue where they appear, and then are comm…
over 15 years ago
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TTC Proposes Cherry Street Service Revision / Surveys Riders (Updated)

Updated November 26, 2015 at 2:30 pm: The TTC will be conducting a “Meet the Planners” session at George Brown College on Dockside Drive on Tuesday, December 1 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. The…
about 10 years ago
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Pantographs Up On Harbourfront

On Tuesday, September 12, 2017, the TTC began operation of its new Flexity streetcars with pantograph power collection on the 509 Harbourfront route. This is a short, comparatively isolated route r…
about 8 years ago
stevemunro.ca

StudentMoveTO: A Survey of GTHA Post-Secondary Student Travel

Almost every ridership study and projection, almost every major infrastructure and scheme looks at peak period, core focused commuting patterns. Huge efforts go into multi-decade plans to deal with…
about 5 years ago
stevemunro.ca

The Varying Strength of Ridership Recovery

This article continues and enlarges on information in TTC 2023 Annual Service Plan Preview with additional material from a report on the July TTC Board agenda Advancing the 5-Year Service Plan…
over 3 years ago
stevemunro.ca

TTC Service Changes Effective Sunday, September 3, 2023 (Preliminary)

This is a preliminary version based on GTFS data (the standard format for transit schedules used by online services) and some Service Advisories on the TTC site. I expect to receive the full list o…
over 2 years ago
stevemunro.ca

King Street Travel Times: May-November 2023

This post reviews the evolution of travel times for 504 King streetcars across downtown between Bathurst and Jarvis Streets, the scope of the so-called transit priority zone. There are many problem…
almost 2 years ago
stevemunro.ca

Fare Evasion on the TTC

Updated Mar. 20/24 at 11:15 pm: The URL in the link below to the Fare Compliance Strategy has been corrected. Updated Mar. 21/24 at 2:45 pm: A section about children’s Presto cards has been a…
over 1 year ago
stevemunro.ca

How Many Buses Does The TTC Use? (2024 Update)

A year ago, I reviewed the usage of the bus fleet to compare the total size with actual usage. See: How Many Buses Does The TTC Use? In this round, the data are from January 1 to February 15, …
over 1 year ago
stevemunro.ca

TTC’s Dubious Short Turn Statistics

In the monthly CEO’s Report, one of the KPIs (Key Performance Indices) is a measure of the number of short-turned streetcars. This used to be reported as an absolute count, but is now express…
12 months ago
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You’re Not Crazy: TTC Service Is Worse

In the political hoopla surrounding the City budget, and the level of support transit will get, we regularly hear claims from the TTC that its service is close to 100% of the pre-pandemic level. Fu…
11 months ago