Welcome to the 401RT Website.

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 to 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 ongoing traffic congestion and their related economic and social problems.

The 401RT Express described in the downloadable document below is also essential infrastructure if efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are to have a good measure of success.

The 401RT document describes many transformative advantages to the core of the Greater Toronto Area.  The document also identifies and describes  the necessity of a supporting extension of the Ontario Line north of Eglinton Avenue that intersects with the 401RT. 

The 401RT Express is highly cost-effective, generating far more new transit users than several currently-approved rapid transit initiatives that would be made unnecessary with the 401RT.  The document describes significant cost savings that should be realized by avoiding duplication.

Download the 401RT document, the illustrative map and Summary below.