Mass public transit is the best way to solve gridlock. Transit improvements don’t need to cost billions of dollars and take decades to build. Toronto’s King Street transit priority corridor increased all-day weekday ridership by 17% and bus lanes on Eglinton East, Kingston, and Morningside increased the reliability of buses by 12%.
In 2020 Toronto City Council approved a plan ‘RapidTO’ to implement 20 transit priority corridors by 2030, but the bus lane planned for Jane Street in Fall 2021 has not yet been installed. Toronto’s climate plan recommends converting one lane of traffic to exclusive bus lanes on all major streets to achieve climate goals.