Law enforcement officers are increasingly seeking access to personal information stored on transit riders’ Presto fare cards, with requests for the data spiking by 47 per cent in 2018 compared to the year before. And while Metrolinx, the provincial agency that controls Presto, only acceded to a mi...

Metrolinx plans to impose financial penalties on Bombardier Inc. after the Quebec train maker delivered only half of a promised six vehicles for Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown LRT by the Friday deadline. “Our contract clearly outlines financial penalties on Bombardier for delivering vehicl...

Service on the Union-Pearson Express has once again been suspended as bone-chilling cold temperatures continue to cause problems for transit services. Trains on the Union-Pearson Express will stop running at 9 p.m. tonight due to weather-related problems, the service said Thursday night. Buses will ...

Our voice is starting to be heard! Cities, towns, municipalities, transit rider groups, and community groups are starting to talk about the same message. We have had great success to date, but we still have a long battle ahead. The media is starting to recognize ATU Canada. Just in the last 24 hours...

Metrolinx is warning GTA commuters to avoid Union Station due to major signal problems near Scarborough GO station. Spokesperson Scott Money said these problems have caused delays along the Lakeshore East, Stouffville and Lakeshore West lines. “We want to apologize to customers during rush...

Big changes are coming to Union Station. In a short interview after Metrolinx’s December 7 board meeting, Phil Verster said that the station’s platforms will need to be substantially rebuilt to accommodate the influx of new passengers that will come with the GO RER program. It has long been appa...

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TORONTO—Nearly a quarter-billion dollars in extra funding from Ontario agency Metrolinx kept the largest transit infrastructure project in the country on track when construction began to fall behind schedule last year, according to a report released last week by Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysy...

Ontario’s auditor general has recommended the province conduct an independent review of two controversial GO Transit stations, after concluding Metrolinx inappropriately recommended the province build them under pressure from the former transportation minister and the City of Toronto. In her annua...

Metrolinx announced they will be ceasing GO bus services to York’s Keele campus. The busses will be rerouted to the Highway 407 subway terminal, where students, staff, and faculty will have to take the subway the rest of their commute. The announcement was made November 6. However, according to VP...