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March 23, 2025 - 7-10 minute read
Canada needs to move away from US-borne policies of public disinvestment, artificial scarcity, and car culture that have paved over cities and left many people at the curb. Here are four pieces that are necessary to fix, strengthen, and build public transit to keep Canada moving into a resilient future divergent from the United States.
February 18, 2025
With the explosion in costs on the Red Line Extension, it's worth asking: how could $5.7 billion be spent to really deliver better transit to Chicago's South Side and uplift transit-dependent communities in an equitable manner?
January 2022
A dive into how relentless opposition against one part of a subway extension, the deprioritization of transit riders in the development of transit projects, and the transit costs crises led to pricey concessions on the Yonge North Subway Extension.
September 2021
Some charts and visualizations based on service alert counts collected for all four TTC subway lines between May 2020 and August 2021. Possible reasons for the variations in reliability between subway lines and potential improvements are discussed.
