Career
Munro is credited in playing a lead role in the grass-roots efforts to convince the Toronto City Council to reverse plans to abandon Toronto"s remaining streetcars. Munro has written several technical reports on transit. Since 2006, he has written a blog that is frequently quoted by other transit commentators, and he has written a regular column for Spacing magazine and Torontoist blog.
In 1986, Munro was critical of the decision to build a subway on Sheppard Avenue rather than a light rail vehicle line as professional transit planners recommended.
In 2005, Munro was recognized for his long advocacy for improved public transit with the Jane Jacobs Prize. In 2015 Munro conducted a detailed analysis of wait times on the Harbourfront route, following reconstruction of the street that took several years.
He found that changes to the route had increased the time to transit the route by 25 percent. In citing Munro"s analysis Edward Keenan of the Toronto Star referred to Munro"s website as his "highly detailed blog" Keenan said that Munro"s analysis attributed the delay to additional traffic lights, and poorly implemented and ineffective transit prioritization at those traffic lights.
