page_title: Urban rail transit in Canada
section_title: Toronto
hierarchical_section_title: Urban rail transit in Canada / Existing systems / Toronto
caption_attribution_description: English: The King Street Pilot Project converted sections of the curb lane into patios with furniture and planters.
context_page_description: Urban rail transit in Canada encompasses a broad range of rail mass transit systems, including commuter rail, rapid transit, light rail, and streetcar systems.
context_section_description: GO Transit operates commuter rail services in the Greater Golden Horseshoe, including the metropolitan areas of Toronto, Hamilton, Kitchener, Niagara, Oshawa, Barrie, and Guelph. Each of its seven lines terminate at Union Station in downtown Toronto. With 217,500 average weekday riders, it is Canada's busiest commuter rail service, and the fifth busiest in North America. The GO Expansion project currently underway will bring electrification, new trackage, bridges, and tunnels to the system, allowing for two-way all-day service with 15 minute frequencies to sections of five of its lines.
  GO Transit's parent agency, Metrolinx, also operates the Union Pearson Express, an airport rail link between Union Station and Toronto Pearson International Airport. It opened in advance of the 2015 Pan American Games, sharing most of its routing with GO's Kitchener line before travelling along a 3.3 km (2.1 mi) rail spur to the airport. At the airport, the line connects with the Link Train, a free people mover transporting passenger between the airport's terminals and parking garage.
  The Toronto Transit Commission's 76.9 km (47.8 mi) subway is Canada's oldest rapid transit system, having opened as the "Yonge subway" in 1954. It is also Canada's busiest system, with 1,603,300 average weekday riders. It is an intermodal system, with three subway lines and one light metro line, with a total of 75 stations, the most of any Canadian system. The system connects each of Toronto's community council areas and former municipalities, as well as the suburb of Vaughan.
  Line 1 Yonge–University is Toronto's oldest, longest, and busiest. It forms a U-shape, with Union station, at its base, connecting to Toronto's intercity and commuter rail hub. The eastern leg travels north along Yonge Street to Finch. The western leg travels northwest, connecting to the University of Toronto and York University, before terminating at Vaughan Metropolitan Centre.
  Line 2 Bloor–Danforth is an east–west line, running primarily along its two namesakes, Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue. The line connects the east and western suburbs with Line 1 and downtown Toronto.
  Line 3 Scarborough is a light metro line. It connects the former municipality of Scarborough with Line 2 at its terminus at Kennedy station. The line is planned to be replaced with an extension of Line 2.
  Line 4 Sheppard is the shortest line on the system, with five stations along Sheppard Avenue in North York. It connects to Line 1 at Sheppard–Yonge station.
  Line 5 Eglinton and Line 6 Finch West are both light rail lines under construction. The two lines will be fully integrated with the subway system upon their opening in 2022 and 2023.
  Toronto also operates a streetcar system. Unlike light rail, the majority of the ten routes operate in mixed traffic and all make frequent stops. Three routes operate in a dedicated right-of-way:
  510 Spadina running between Spadina station and Union station.
  509 Harbourfront running between Union station and Exhibition Place via Queens Quay station.
  512 St. Clair running along St. Clair Avenue West between St. Clair station and Gunns Loop via St. Clair West station.
  The central section of the 504 King route runs along the King Street Transit Priority Corridor. The proposed East Bayfront LRT would be a fourth streetcar line operating in a dedicated right-of-way.
caption: 504 King streetcar operating along the King Street Transit Priority Corridor
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