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Getting through Toronto is no easy

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task, especially during rush hour.

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"It's really busy." "I think you could use a

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lot of improvement."

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"I always have to wait for another train

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just because it's so popular". "There's

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delays

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almost every day." To help ease congestion

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the TTC announced yesterday that two

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additional trains will run during rush

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hour,

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but how effective will this be? "The city

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can't really do much to make it better."

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Enter line six. A new type of transit

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launched this week in the form

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of an express bus route between Liberty

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Village and Union Station.

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"We want to come up with an alternative

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way for people to

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commute in the morning and just get

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around the city in general." The bus seats

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up to 24 people

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and makes seven trips daily during

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morning rush hour.

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The bus also offers guaranteed seating,

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wi-fi on board

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and flexibility for riders. "Part of the

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beauty of having

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a bus system and a bus network is that

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you can change it

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to meet demand." While the pilot ends this

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week,

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Line Six plans to expand. "The next step

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is to take this to

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other communities in the suburbs where

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commuting can take an hour and a half to

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get to work."

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After a comfortable 15-minute drive

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we've just arrived at Union Station from

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Liberty village on the Line six express.

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For Toronto Today, I'm Arianna Ongaro.