The TTC has announced several service changes to accommodate crowds expected at the Taylor Swift Eras Tour concerts at the Rogers Centre on November 14-16 and 21-23. For full details, see their site.
On concert nights, subway service will be improved between 5-8pm and 11pm-1:30am with Line 1 trains operating about every 3 minutes, and Line 2 trains every 4 minutes.
509 Harbourfront service will be restored between Union Station and Exhibition Loop from November 1-24 with at least 11 cars, up from the usual 7 on the line, on concert days .
511 Bathurst cars will operate from Bathurst Station to Union on November 14-16, and starting on November 17 on a scheduled basis.
19 Bay, a normally infrequent service, will have 10 extra buses. Post-show they will operate express northbound stopping only at King, Queen, Dundas and College enroute to Bay Station.
510D Spadina bus will similarly provide an express service stopping at the same intermediate destinations as 19 Bay enroute to Spadina Station.
The express services will be styled as “Swiftbus”. Extra service on 504 King will be styled as “Swiftcar”.
Access at Union Station will be monitored and controlled to prevent the overcrowding that occurred on past occasions with large events.
Steve Munro 
I hope everything goes swiftly. If not, I guess they can shake it off?
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I hope there is Swiftbus merch! I know a 4-year-old who has great love for both transit and Taylor Swift.
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I’m not a huge fan of Taylor Swift, but nothing would make me happier to see her call out Toronto for its gridlock and systemic issues, just like other celebrities have done recently. Maybe she too will have to resort to walking to her own concert. Perhaps she’s the one who can actually motivate these lackadaisical councillors to make real changes and get this city moving.
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The cruel summer the TTC gave us doesn’t help their reputation. But the increased service they’re planning is a love story, baby just say yes.
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Steve, increase in TTC service is so timely, and it also comes just in time for this year’s Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, which runs from the 1st to 10th of November 2024, at Exhibition Place. The entire “509 Harbourfront” route will operate with streetcars between the Exhibition loop in the west and the Union Station loop in the east, and will run in tandem with the “511 Bathurst” route between the Exhibition loop and Bathurst and Queens Quay intersection.
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