Jedwin Mok: Beyond this continent’s disastrous project delivery practices… how do we ever expect the public to continue spending BILLIONS supporting rapid transit expansion when projects we deliver don’t MATERIALLY improve their lives? Simply putting the bus on rails won’t lift Jane & Finch out of poverty!

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Jedwin Mok jedwinmok.com · Nov 29, 2025
At $240M/km, Finch West LRT is… - MORE expensive per-km than the Sheppard Subway - 2X the per-km cost of the Montreal REM & underground metros in other developed nations … for a tram that’s SLOWER than a bus in traffic. Let’s not mislead the public; Line 6 should be the 536 Finch West streetcar!
- More Transit Southern Ontario moretransitso.bsky.social · Nov 29, 2025
  Trip data for the Finch West LRT is now public and has been analyzed by Steve Munro. The average speed comes in at 13.5km/h. For reference the average speed for on street segments of the ION in Kitchener Waterloo is 18-19km/h. stevemunro.ca/2025/11/28/6...
  6 Finch West: Schedules, Travel Times & Speeds
  
  The TTC has published the GTFS version of the schedule for 6 Finch West. This is the electronic timetable used by trip planning apps to understand how the scheduled service is supposed to behave. F…
  
  stevemunro.ca
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Beyond this continent’s disastrous project delivery practices… how do we ever expect the public to continue spending BILLIONS supporting rapid transit expansion when projects we deliver don’t MATERIALLY improve their lives? Simply putting the bus on rails won’t lift Jane & Finch out of poverty!
Nov 29, 2025 06:59
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