Corrected November 29, 2025 at 2:55pm: An error in the PDF containing the schedule information has been corrected for early Sunday service westbound.
Updated November 29, 2025 at 12:15pm: Charts comparing the scheduled travel times of the 36C Finch West Bus with the planned 6 Finch West LRT have been added.
Correction November 29, 2025 at 7:45am: As some readers have noted in the comments, the times shown at Martin Grove Station eastbound on weekdays were the same as those at Humber College. This was an editing error on my part in copying columns from a larger version of the table. This has been corrected both in the snapshot and in the PDF of the full schedule.
The TTC has published the GTFS version of the schedule for 6 Finch West. This is the electronic timetable used by trip planning apps to understand how the scheduled service is supposed to behave. From these data, it is possible to construct a schedule in a human readable format as well as to calculate travel times and speeds along the line.
The full schedule for weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays is in this PDF. [Corrected Nov. 29 at 2:55pm]
As a guide to reading this, here is the early part of weekday service eastbound.
- Trip id: The internal trip number assigned by the scheduling system
- Departure and arrival times: These are shown for selected major stops. Some trips originate eastbound from the maintenance yard, and so they first show up at Jane-Finch.
- Trip times: The difference between arrival times at Finch West Station and departure times from Humber College Station. Note that they are all 46 minute. This is not typical for TTC routes where the scheduled time varies over the course of the day. This is likely a placeholder value until the TTC finds out what the actual travel times will be.
- Headways: The interval between cars at a point where all trips are present.
Because there is only one schedule design for a 46 minute trip time all day, the scheduled speeds are the same for all trips. An obvious question is whether the TTC will force cars to hold to this schedule even if it proves excessive thereby delaying riders needlessly. Conversely, if cars operate at whatever speed conditions will allow, there will likely be terminal congestion just as on streetcar routes with excessive scheduled travel and recovery times.
The tables in this file show the spacing between stops, the scheduled time and the speed in kilometres per hour. Speeds vary over the route, and they average 13.53 km/hr. This does not include terminal turnaround time.
There is a particularly slow section at Jane-Finch both ways implying that provision has been made for a delay on every trip. I will inquire of TTC why the slow operation (8.2 to 8.6 km/hr) applies there.
The average speed is slower than the 36 Finch bus during some periods, a rather poor showing for a rail line on its own reserved lane. In a future update, I will include more information about the stop level schedules and speeds for the 36C Finch West Bus. Here is the current scheduled service summary.
Comparative Scheduled Travel Times for 36C Finch West Bus an 6 Finch West LRT
The charts below compare the scheduled travel times between Humber College Bus terminal and Finch West Station with the planned 46-minute trip time of the LRT service. The LRT is faster than the bus notably on weekday and Saturday afternoons, but slower in the early morning and evening periods.
This post will be updated with early operating results and vehicle tracking information once they are available.
Steve Munro 