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Rail[edit]

... Urban rail transit entails heavy rail systems on dedicated rights-of-ways in Canadian urban areas....

Rapid transit[edit]

Further information: Rapid transit in Canada
Montreal Metro's De La Concorde station, one of the newest stations on Montreal's network.
A new Toronto Rocket train at St. George station.
Vancouver Skytrain's Brentwood Town Centre Station at dusk.

There are three urban rail rapid transit systems operating in Canada; also known as subways or metros, these are considered higher-order rapid transit by the International Association of Public Transport (UITP).[1] The first such system, the Toronto subway, was a 12-station line opened in 1954 by the Toronto Transportation Commission (now the Toronto Transit Commission, TTC).[2] It has since grown to encompass three heavy rail lines and one intermediate rail line. Montreal later introduced the Montreal Metro in 1966, though there were plans to build a rapid transit system since 1902.[3] The Vancouver SkyTrain—an intermediate-rail, automated guided line—was opened in January 1986 for the Expo 86 world fair.[4] The two aforementioned intermediate rail lines are sometimes referred to as light metros.[citation needed]

Rail rapid transit in Canada
Location Transit Daily
ridership
(Q4 2014)[5] 		System
length
(km) 		Stations
Montreal, Quebec Montreal Metro 1,263,800 69.2 68
Toronto, Ontario Toronto subway and RT 1,093,300 68.3 69
Vancouver, British Columbia SkyTrain 390,600 68.6 47

Light rail transit[edit]

Further information: Light rail in Canada

Several Canadian cities run light rail transit (LRT) systems, sometimes referred to as 'light rapid transit' systems; with regards to the abbreviation, the two terms are sometimes conflated given the development of diverse public transit modes in the 1970s and 1980s.[6] The Edmonton Light Rail Transit system was built from 1974 to 1978 for the 1978 Commonwealth Games, making Edmonton the first city in North America with less than one million people to have an urban rail transit system. Calgary soon followed, beginning construction on the C-Train in 1978, with the first line opening in 1981 and followed by additional lines in 1985 and 1987[7] in time for the 1988 Winter Olympics. In addition, Toronto features the largest streetcar system in North America, but differs from the aforementioned light rail systems in that it largely runs at grade on roads.

Light rail transit in Canada
Location Transit Daily
ridership
 System
length
(km) 		Stations
Calgary, Alberta C-Train 310,700 (Q3 2014)[8] 56 44
Toronto, Ontario Toronto streetcar system 291,800 (Q4 2014)[5] 82 685[9]
Edmonton, Alberta Edmonton Light Rail Transit 100,760 (Q3 2013)[10] 21 15
Ottawa, Ontario O-Train 12,400 8 5

Road[edit]

Bus rapid transit[edit]

The success of Canada’s first bus rapid transit (BRT) system—the Ottawa Transitway, which opened in 1983—has spurred transit systems worldwide to implement their own BRTs.[11] Dedicated busways are existing or planned in a few communities including Ottawa, Gatineau, Mississauga, and York Region, while the Ion system, a blended LRT and BRT network, commenced construction in Kitchener-Waterloo in 2014.[12][13][14]

Bus rapid transit in Canada
Location Transit Daily
ridership 		System
length
(km) 		Stations Expansion
Ottawa, Ontario Ottawa Bus Rapid Transit 220,000 (2013)[15] 35.4 57
Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg RT 166,000[16] 3.6 4 2019
Vancouver, British Columbia 99 B-Line, 97 B-Line, 96 B-Line 100,000[16] 27.0 14
York Region, Ontario Viva Rapid Transit 35,300[16] 68.3 69 Ongoing
Brampton, Ontario Züm 7,500[16] 28 35
Gatineau, Quebec Rapibus 12 10 Ongoing

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Metro systems around the world". L’Union internationale des transports publics (International Association of Public Transport) (IUTP). May 2014. Retrieved 2015-04-25. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ "Canada's First Subway". City of Toronto. Retrieved 2007-02-25.
  3. ^ "An underground railway project in 1910". Société de transport de Montréal.
  4. ^ "Vancouver SkyTrain, Canada". Railway-Technology.com. Retrieved 2015-04-14.
  5. ^ a b "Public Transportation Ridership Report - Fourth Quarter & End-of-Year 2014, 2014" (PDF). American Public Transportation Association. 2015-03-03. p. 34. Retrieved 2015-04-13.
  6. ^ Institution of Civil Engineers (1990). North, B. H. (ed.). "Light transit systems: proceedings of the Symposium on the Potential of Light Transit Systems in British Cities Organized by the Institution of Civil Engineers and Held in Nottingham on 14-15 March 1990". p. 5. Retrieved 2015-04-25. What is Light Transit? - 1. Some confusion is possible on the meaning of light transit, particularly since the initials LRT are often used, standing for light rapid transit or light rail transit. Light rapid transit was a North American term used as a differential from heavy rapid transit, which has now been largely superceded by the term metro. Once other than rail-based systems came on the scene, light rail transit was used to distinguish the technology of steel wheel / steel rail systems, and light rapid transit covered the whole field of guided passenger rail systems with characteristics not conforming to those of what the British Department of Transport calls main rail lines.
  7. ^ "Calgary Transit: About CT - History". Calgary Transit. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
  8. ^ "Public Transportation Ridership Report - Third Quarter 2014" (PDF). American Public Transportation Association. 2014-12-10. p. 31. Retrieved 2015-04-13.
  9. ^ Represents number of stops, per TTC website 2013 operating statistics.
  10. ^ http://www.edmonton.ca/transportation/2013_LRT_Passenger_Count_Report.pdf
  11. ^ "Bus rapid transit: a Canadian perspective (Issue paper #25)" (PDF). Canadian Urban Transit Association. November 2007. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  12. ^ http://rapidtransit.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/
  13. ^ Outhit, Jeff (October 27, 2011). "Rail yard purchased for rapid transit". Waterloo Region Record. Retrieved 2012-04-08.
  14. ^ Douglas John Bowen (July 12, 2013). "Waterloo opts for Bombardier LRVs". International Railway Journal. Archived from the original on 2013-07-13. Retrieved 2013-07-13. The first of the Flexity Freedom LRV are due to be delivered in mid-2016, and will be used on the 19km, 16-station line from Conestoga Mall in Waterloo to Fairview Park Mall in Kitchener. The $C 92.4m ($US 89.2m) contract will include an option for 16 additional vehicles. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ "Reports and Stats - Statistics - Transitway". OC Transpo. 2013-12-31. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  16. ^ a b c d http://brtdata.org/location/northern_america/canada

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