More people are jumping on the King streetcar to get where they need to go.
The most recent report from the city shows that in May and June, ridership on the 504 route between Jarvis and Bathurst was up 35 per cent for the morning commute and 27 per cent for the evening commute.
All weekdays on average, the King streetcar is seeing an 11 per cent increase in ridership.
In a news release Wednesday evening, Mayor John Tory says the pilot "demonstrates that we can move a larger number of people on the city’s busiest surface route, quickly and reliably, while managing the impact on drivers and local businesses.”
In addition, the report cites a 0.3 per cent growth in customer spending along the stretch, compared to the same period last year.
However, not all business owners say they're feeling the wave of increased ridership.
"We're all down, the whole stretch between Bathurst and Jarvis is down," Kit Kat Italian Bar & Grill owner and - pre-Bill 5 - Ward 20 candidate Al Carbone told CP24. "We're down at lunch, we're down in the evening."
"People that are taking transit are just taking transit," he added.
The latest report also found that transit along the 504 has become more reliable with 85 per cent of streetcars arriving within four minutes of the morning commute, and a four to five minute improvement in the slowest streetcar travel time during the afternoon commute.
The pilot project began last November and is intended to last an entire year. It only allows TTC and emergency vehicles, as well as bicycles, to travel straight through each intersection between Bathurst and Jarvis. All other traffic must turn right at the nearest intersection.
It is not confirmed whether the changes will be made permanent past November 2018.