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The Toronto subway is a system of three underground, surface, and elevated rapid transit lines in Toronto and Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). It was the country's first subway system: the first line was built under Yonge Street with a short stretch along Front Street and opened in 1954 with 12 stations.
Fixed-block signalling was originally used on the Toronto subway since the opening of Toronto's first subway in 1954 and was the first signalling system used on Lines 2 and 4. [109] [110] As of 2022, Lines 2 and 4 use fixed-block signalling but Line 1 no longer does.
System Country City/area served Annual ridership (2023) [1] [4] Avg. daily weekday boardings (Q1 2024) [1] [4] System length Avg. daily boardings per mile (Q3 2023) Year opened Stations Lines 1 New York City Subway: United States New York City: 2,027,286,000 5,955,000 248 miles (399 km) [5] 25,251 1904 [note 1] 472 [6] 24 [6] 2 Mexico City ...
Planned as the fifth route of the Toronto subway system, it is expected to open sometime in the 2020s. [ 12 ] The regional population of Toronto is expected to reach 7 million people within the next 10 years, up from the current 5.5 million, making it one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in North America .
Greater Toronto Area; Toronto Subway – 3 metro lines; TTC Streetcars- 11 streetcar lines, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission GO Train – 7 commuter rail lines, operated by GO Transit. Vancouver and Lower Mainland; SkyTrain – 3 metro lines; West Coast Express – 1 commuter rail line, operated by TransLink
The city of Toronto has the largest streetcar system in the Americas. Most of the eleven streetcar routes are concentrated in the downtown core and all connect to the subway. The TTC also operates a night bus service called the Blue Night Network. Four routes of the Blue Night Network are operated using streetcars as well.
The London Underground first opened as an underground railway in 1863 and its first electrified underground line opened in 1890, [1] making it the world's oldest metro system. [2] The Beijing Subway is the world's longest metro network at 815.2 kilometres (507 mi) and the Shanghai Metro has the highest annual ridership at 2.83 billion trips. [ 3 ]
It is also Canada's busiest system, with 1,603,300 average weekday riders. [1] It is an intermodal system, with three subway lines providing service to a total of 70 stations, the most of any Canadian system. The system connects each of Toronto's former municipalities, as well as the suburb of Vaughan.