Toronto Transit

Toronto's subway map has just been updated for the first time in over a decade. After 15 years of delays, Line 5 Eglinton and Line 6 Finch West both opened within the last several months, joining Line 1 and Line 2 as part of the city's rapid transit backbone, alongside a system that has carried tens of billions of rides over its 100-plus-year history.

Underneath that, the TTC runs on streetcars and more than 150 bus routes, covering almost every part of the city, with GO Transit's trains and buses extending out into the wider region. One Presto card (or tap of your phone) usually gets you across most of it. What it doesn't guarantee is that any of it runs on time. Delays hit buses, streetcars, and subways alike, from weather to construction to the ordinary mechanical stuff, and a new line settling in tends to have more of them, not fewer.

That's exactly where knowing before you go matters. The app tracks TTC and GO in real time, so you find out about a delay before you're standing on a cold platform waiting for a train that isn't coming.