This site includes
1) A warning about rapid climate change, which should affect all decisions on human activities that impact our environment.
2) A description of an essential new rapid transit line through the northern half of Toronto, and an extensive list of its general benefits.
Rapid climate change is underway, and accelerating. Because of our collective negligence, decisions and daily actions continue to increase the emission of gases that are heating our world and creating damage that, in some cases, will be irreversible. To view a summary description of what we are facing, please access the document below.
Urban transportation is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions; the 401RT Express concept described below illustrates the kind of transformation that needs to happen if a sustainable transport system in Toronto is to be achieved.
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 more new transit users than currently-approved rapid transit initiatives, including some that would be made unnecessary with the 401RT Express. The 401RT Express documents describe significant cost savings that should be realized by avoiding duplication.
Please access the 401RT Summary document and the more detailed Rapid Transit Rescue document below, and the map illustration. Please note that cost and ridership figures have been updated to March 2025.
Please note that illustrations using Google Earth have been added, to show more detail regarding the alignment of the 401RT Express in and near Toronto.
For more information or to provide comments,
please contact John Stillich at johnstillich@rogers.com,
or call 705-294-4110.