Welcome to the 401RT Website.

(N.B.  Some information regarding the 401Express's effect on the  Sheppard Subway, and overall transit ridership, has been updated in downloadable documents.) 

Rapid transit expansion initiatives for the Toronto area have consistently overlooked the most critical missing infrastructure component that can reduce overall road traffic congestion -- a single, continuous east-west cross-boundary rapid transit line across the northern half of Toronto, from Pickering and into Mississauga. 

Without such a rapid transit line, and even with currently approved or planned transit expansions in place, the core of the Greater Toronto Area cannot avoid increases traffic congestion and their related economic and social problems as the region's population grows rapidly.

The 401RT Express described in the updated downloadable documents below is essential infrastructure if efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are to be successful.

The 401RT Express, almost entirely elevated above or alongside existing transportation corridors, is highly affordable and highly cost-effective, generating far more new transit users than currently-approved rapid transit initiatives, including some that would be made unnecessary with the 401RT Express.  The document describes significant cost savings that should be realized by avoiding duplication.

Download the 401RT documents and the illustrative map, below.