Opinion: Toronto’s secret success: Suburban buses

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Jonathan English is a Toronto-based PhD candidate in urban planning at Columbia University.

Toronto’s transit is unquestionably imperfect – all riders have endured unreliable schedules and overcrowded vehicles, and many routes still aren’t as fast or frequent as they should be – but it is still leaps and bounds above transit in most American cities. In the early 1960s, Metropolitan Toronto’s political leadership and the Toronto Transit Commission made the conscious decision to provide a grid of frequent bus service in the new suburbs as they were built.

Toronto, Montreal and the far denser five boroughs of New York have by far the highest transit ridership per capita in North America. While many people ride transit in downtown Boston or San Francisco, ridership is modest in their suburbs. In Toronto’s suburbs, some of the bus routes are among the busiest on the continent – more than 40,000 riders a day, exceeding all but a few in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Frequent bus service also helps us get far better value for the subways that we build. Toronto has a fairly small subway system compared with many peer cities, but it’s by far the busiest per kilometre in North America.

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GlobeDebate I question Warden station being surrounded by forest and low density housing. Has the author even gotten off the subway to have a look around?

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