Toronto transit users already appear in love with King Street Pilot Project

If you were downtown this weekend, you would have noticed some significant changes to King Street, as the city’s one-year Pilot Project officially kicked off.

The project is intended to change the way cars travel on King Street, which is the busiest surface transit route in the city, specifically between Bathurst and Jarvis, with some 65,000 transit users commuting daily.

People and transit will now be given first priority, by improving transit reliability, speed, and capacity.

See also

• City preparing for King Street Pilot which launches this weekend
• City's King Street Pilot Project gets official implementation date
• Taxis want "public transit" exemption as part of King Street Pilot Project

Today marked the first official morning commute with the new set of traffic restrictions in place and it’s safe to say that transit users loved their shorter and faster commute.

#KingStreetPilot is working! My streetcar sailed across the core this morning. Bravo TTC. We desperatly needed a faster east-west route dowtown.

— Paulina (@readpaulina) November 13, 2017

Hands down, smoothest and fastest commute from Shaw to Yonge on King. I could get used to this. 👏#KingStreetPilot

— Tracy Torchetti (@Torcherama) November 13, 2017

Smooth streetcar journey this morning 👍🏼#KingStreetPilot #Toronto

— Fergal (@FergalKerins) November 13, 2017

It is happening! #rightTurnOnly4CarTraffic #glimpseOfFuture #KingStreetPilot pic.twitter.com/JrVY24X9nx

— Audrey (@MartianMoose) November 13, 2017

Usually don’t take transit to work, but the King streetcar was crazy fast this morning #KingStreetPilot

— Peter (@PeteFromToronto) November 13, 2017

Well #KingStreetPilot that was REALLY FAST! My 20 min commute just took 5 minutes! ❤️❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/r1uZNvqrmd

— Ilene Sova Artist (@IleneSova) November 13, 2017

Hell yeah. It took only 15 mins to get from Jarvis to Shaw. 😍@TTChelps #KingStreetPilot #TOpoli #reclaimingmytime

— isaiah (@adamisaiagraham) November 12, 2017

Never thought I’d say this: I’m excited to ride the King streetcar this morning #kingstreetpilot

— Emily Fan (@emilyjustinefan) November 13, 2017

Drivers, on the other hand, weren’t as welcoming of the new changes and continued to drive down King despite police warnings.

No cop no compliance. Cop further up King and waving drivers over. This cab flew right by him. @BeckTaxi #KingStreetPilot pic.twitter.com/P12YxidGRR

— Dawn Bernstein (@guitardawn) November 13, 2017

Warnings r being issued this week, far too many this morning!!!Drivers, you need to get with the program,you need to follow these new rules. #KingStreetPilot pic.twitter.com/G6HhbuVDBz

— Clint Stibbe (@TrafficServices) November 13, 2017

Const. Clint Stibbe said it best, drivers need to get with the program and follow the new rules. Once this happens, everyone will be able to travel down King more efficiently.