Greater Toronto Area

Population: 2,503,281
Avg Riders Per Weekday: 1.2 million
Number of Subway Stops: 69 (1/km)
Length of System: 68.3 km

(Ref: Wikipedia)

Greater London (England)

Population: 7,355,400
Avg Riders Per Weekday: 4.25 million
Number of Subway Stops: 268 (1.5/km)
Length of System: 400 km

(Ref: Wikipedia)

To do some math on this, London has 2.9x Toronto’s population, 3.5x our average daily ridership, 3.8x as many stops, and 5.8x the length. Those numbers seem reasonably close, yet somehow our system seems… not quite epic enough. When you factor in London’s area of 1,577.3 km² versus Greater Toronto’s 7,125 km² (That’s 4.5x more area for us) ours seems a bit small.