It's time for more reliable, fast, accessible, and frequent streetcar service - join us on Sunday, November 23 for the Save our Streetcars summit to:
- Share your experience taking the streetcar
- Discuss ideas on how to improve the streetcar system
- Hear from and ask questions to a panel of transit experts and advocates
- Connect with other streetcar riders who want to see a better system
- Join the movement and our campaigns to improve the streetcar!
This is a free event! Snacks, coffee, TTC tickets provided upon request.
Noticed that streetcar service has gotten more unreliable, slow, and delayed?
It's not just you. For many riders, walking can be a faster option than taking the streetcar in Toronto. This past summer, a runner was able to beat five streetcar routes travelling terminal-to-terminal on-foot!
The data confirms it - a 2024 study found that Toronto's streetcar system is among the slowest in the world. According to the TTC last month, only 61% of streetcars showed up on time. Over the last several years, the speed and reliability of all streetcar routes have declined significantly, coinciding with ever-increasing traffic congestion. Projects like the King Streetcar Priority Corridor have been successful at improving service in the past, but are no longer working to keep commutes reliable and fast.
It's time for a fulsome discussion about what is needed to bring better streetcar service.
Streetcars are an important part of our city, but they need to work for riders
Toronto's streetcars carry hundreds of thousands of riders per day, the busiest in the Americas. Torontonians rely on the streetcar in large numbers to get to work, school, community, and care, and have done so for well over a century, while most other cities replaced their streetcars with buses in the mid-20th century. Ever taken a streetcar replacement bus? If Toronto's streetcars were replaced with buses, they wouldn't be able to sustainably move huge volumes of people, and would result in worsened congestion and more overcrowded transit. In other cities around the world, measures were taken to ensure streetcar systems are fast, reliable, and accessible. Addressing reliability, speed, and accessibility issues with streetcars is a solution to winning more riders back onto transit, tackling congestion, and reaching our climate goals.
Toronto needs the streetcar, but the streetcar needs to work better for Torontonians!
We want to hear from you! Attend our summit and join the discussion on how to save our streetcars!
