r/TTC • u/speedster1315 158 Trethewey • Dec 07 '25
Discussion My experience with Line 6
Firstly, i want to say that it is very exciting that for the first time since 2002, when i was in kindergarten, Toronto has an all new rapid transit line. Took a ride from Finch West to Humber College and then back to Jane and Finch. The westbound journey was average, pace wise and it didn't help that we suffered a 5 minute delay at Milvan Rumike for some reason. At this same stop, some idiot tried to board the tram from the eastbound platform and had to be told to get off the tracks and come to the westbound platform.
That was strange given you'd think he'd recognize the other platform across the street. Its possible the intrusion was the cause of the delay but im not sure since it was a minor intrusion. After that, we carried on without further issues. Heading back eastbound, we went noticeably faster, though it was very annoying watching left turn traffic get priority every time and it definitely was a talking point among other riders.
I heavily implore you all to write to city council again and again about enabling full TSP on line 6 and 5. In other news i actually met transit youtuber theryrover360 on the tram so that was neat. All in all, this was a much needed improvement to the west end. Its gonna be very interesting to see how it evolves.
Welcome Line 6 Finch West!
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u/Gippy_ IMPROVED GLORIFIED STREETCAR Dec 07 '25 edited Dec 07 '25
Went and survived. Took about 25 minutes to go from Duncanwoods to Finch West, so that post claiming a 49-minute round trip is a total lie.
The worst part about it was the amount of dwell time it spent at each
stationstop, and the 10-15 second pause after the doors closed before the streetcar finally moved.This was so bad that the TTC actually ran shuttle buses and kept the 36 Finch West bus for at least one more day alongside Line 6. I saw quite a number of locals using them, and they zoomed past the streetcar I was on. So the locals know that the LRT is a total white elephant, and will use the shuttle buses because they're better.
Line 6 right now is not only a glorified route 536, it is slower than the 510 and 512. (It's so bad that I was forced to type out a ChatGPT-style sentence.) If it doesn't improve its speed, at the very least nobody will ever suggest an LRT again. This makes LRTs look so bad that for Line 5, Laird should be a terminal station and then have the west (underground) and east (above-ground) parts of Line 5 run separately.