Motion without Notice - An Urgent Need to Speed Up New LRT Routes - by Chair Jamaal Myers, seconded by Vice-Chair Joe Mihevc

To ensure its success, the Finch West LRT must be fast and convenient to use. The TTC Board must ensure it exhausts every opportunity to realize this vision of fast and convenient transit for our customers. As the TTC continues its soft opening of Line 6, there are opportunities to improve its performance and speed along the route by looking at more aggressive, active transit signal priority, increasing service frequency, and removing or changing internal TTC, City of Toronto and Metrolinx policies that affect vehicle speeds. The Board is also cognizant of the imminent opening of Line 5, slated for 2026, and seeks to ensure that all learnings from the opening of Line 6 are applied, as appropriate, to Line 5. It is critically important, that Line 5 service meets the expectations of our customers who have long awaited the opening of this critical east-west rapid transit corridor, particularly in advance of Toronto co-hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

increasing service frequency (including any required operating funding subsidy increase from the Province of Ontario), and reviewing internal TTC and City of Toronto policies which govern speeds on surface routes, and provide a progress update to the TTC Board no later than Q1 2026.