RapidTO: Master Thread

[Bordercollie]

The RapidTO Bathurst website issued the following update. If you're in the area, it would be great if you can report on the installation.

April Update: Work on Bathurst Street’s priority streetcar lanes between Nassau Street and Bathurst Station is expected to resume the week of April 13, weather permitting, followed by traffic signal timing adjustments across the full project area. Once red paint, pavement markings and signage are installed, this segment will be fully operational and enforceable. View the News & Updates accordion for more details.

RapidTO: Bathurst Street

April Update: Work on Bathurst Street’s priority streetcar lanes between Nassau Street and Bathurst Station is expected to resume the week of April 13, weather permitting, followed by traffic signal timing adjustments across the full project area. Once red paint, pavement markings and signage...

www.toronto.ca

I can't believe it took 50+ years to drum up the political courage to align some traffic lights and put some red paint on the road to give public transit priority. Even considering that one public trasit vehicle carries 20 to 200 times more people.

That's just mind boggling.

 

[jmi22]

Great! Now once they finish painting Nassau to Bloor, they can get started once more on the flaked off section from Lakeshore to Dundas.....and the repeat the whole thing over again ad nauseum. I must admit, the city bureaucracy knows how to keep a job going.

 

[TwoWheelPoli]

Wonder if anyone has checked the progress of RapidTO on Dufferin given that project website suggested work would resume last Monday (April 6)?

RapidTO: Dufferin Street

April Update: Work on Dufferin Street’s priority bus lanes will resume as early as April 6, 2026. View the News & Updates accordion for more details. Starting April 2026, the City of Toronto and Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) are continuing to install priority bus lanes along Dufferin...

www.toronto.ca

 

[Towered]

Wonder if anyone has checked the progress of RapidTO on Dufferin given that project website suggested work would resume last Monday (April 6)?

RapidTO: Dufferin Street

April Update: Work on Dufferin Street’s priority bus lanes will resume as early as April 6, 2026. View the News & Updates accordion for more details. Starting April 2026, the City of Toronto and Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) are continuing to install priority bus lanes along Dufferin...

www.toronto.ca

No changes on the ground.

 

[txlseries4]

Could the delay be due to the late spring, cooler temperatures, and the rain? When they installed the first part late last year it was already cold and parts didn't adhere properly (which I think they expected), so maybe they're waiting for a certain temperature to be maintained before continuing.

Edit:
The product the city is using is MMAX® Extended Season Area Markings from PPG and the product data sheet says,
DRY TIME: MMAX® colored lane treatment dries to a lab ASTM D711 no pickup in less than 30 minutes when ambient and surface temperature are 77° F at 50±5% humidity. Dry time is temperature, humidity, and film thickness dependent. MMAX® colored lane treatment must be 100% cured, which will be a hardened, solid state, before traffic is permitted. Curing typically takes 30-60 minutes and is based on temperature and amount of catalyst added

There hasn't been a day with those temperatures (77F = 25C) let alone a night above 10C. More than explains why we haven't seen progress.

 

[jmi22]

New frontpage story up: https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2026/04/rapidto-express-lane-work-lagging-bathurst-and-dufferin.60835

 

[txlseries4]

Dufferin south of Bloor the yellow lane markings on the road have been ground off and there are white lines on the east and west side to indicate where to paint (gaps for driveways, turn radius at intersections). Don't know how far south but at I'm guessing at to College. Saw a red lane painted outside Dufferin Station on the west side of the road.

 

[jmi22]

Somebody got a fire lit under their derriere

 

[nfitz]

Somebody got a fire lit under their derriere

Or the snow just melted naturally.

Could the delay be due to the late spring, cooler temperatures, and the rain? When they installed the first part late last year it was already cold and parts didn't adhere properly (which I think they expected), so maybe they're waiting for a certain temperature to be maintained before continuing.

Edit:
The product the city is using is MMAX® Extended Season Area Markings from PPG and the product data sheet says,
DRY TIME: MMAX® colored lane treatment dries to a lab ASTM D711 no pickup in less than 30 minutes when ambient and surface temperature are 77° F at 50±5% humidity. Dry time is temperature, humidity, and film thickness dependent. MMAX® colored lane treatment must be 100% cured, which will be a hardened, solid state, before traffic is permitted. Curing typically takes 30-60 minutes and is based on temperature and amount of catalyst added

There hasn't been a day with those temperatures (77F = 25C) let alone a night above 10C. More than explains why we haven't seen progress.

I don't think it tells us anything without knowing the dry times under low temperatures. And much more importantly - the durability relationship with temperature.