Commercial Opportunities

Metrolinx is seeking partnerships with the potential to enhance our customers’ experience and provide additional value to our organization. We believe good partnerships build brands, showcase products and services, recognize communities, engage stakeholders, and deliver results. For Metrolinx, partnerhips are a strategic opportunity to leverage our considerable assets, both to drive revenue and create new business opportunities in the region.

We welcome proposals for sponsorship opportunities with Metrolinx, including any of our operating divisions and programs (GO Transit, UP Express, PRESTO, and Eglinton Crosstown). Learn about our valuable customer base and contact us at partnerships@metrolinx.com to make a request. For further consideration, read our Partnership Policy.

Metrolinx Partnership And Sponsorship Opportunities

• Appendix A: Terms and Conditions
• Appendix B: Submission Form

Station Vending/Mobile Retail Partnership Opportunity

PRESTO Payment & Related Marketing Partnerships

• PRESTO Payment & Related Marketing Partnerships – Appendix A and B

Metrolinx Station Naming Rights Opportunity - Partner Benefits and Overview

Metrolinx Station Naming Rights Opportunity - Appendix A

Metrolinx Station Naming Rights Opportunity - Appendix B

Metrolinx properties offer an ideal backdrop to film movies, TV shows, commercials, and more. To request access to use GO Transit or UP Express properties (such as trains, buses, stations, and platforms), please fill out this form.

Previous productions that have used Metrolinx property:

• Orphan Black (TV series)
• Saving Hope (TV series)
• 12 Monkeys (TV series)
• Covert Affairs (TV series)
• Alphas (TV series)
• VISA commercial

GO Transit and UP Express properties, such as trains and stations, serve as ideal venues for pop-up retail opportunities, product promotions, events and brand activations.

If you are an electoral candidate, please see our policy for use of Metrolinx facilities for electoral purposes.

Use our properties to create dynamic and unique events, such as:

• Experiential: Showcase diverse brands, products and/or specialized services to drive traffic to your venue or event.
• Sampling: Provide a sensory experience to guests that highlight selected local brands. Use tastings, interactive displays, or brand ambassadors to promote your products in an exciting and innovative way.
• Retail: Sell distinctly Toronto products to our guests and customers from iconic Canadian retailers and brands.

To request access to GO Transit or UP Express properties (such as trains, buses, and stations), please contact us at partnerships@metrolinx.com.

Property use at GO Transit

During an average rush hour, as many as 5,000 GO customers pass through our stations. There is an exciting opportunity to create new and innovative experiences for these passengers by activating our GO stations.

Weekends provide an opportune time to transform GO parking lots into exciting outdoor community event spaces. There are locations across the GO network available for reimagining. Parking lots on the Milton, Kitchener, Barrie, Richmond Hill and Stouffville lines have reduced weekend service, and are prime properties to hold dynamic events in your community.

Pop-up events at UP Express

UP Express offers an opportunity for temporary pop-up vendors to provide retail, sampling, and cultural events at certain UP Express stations. These pop-up events aim to provide a new, memorable way to travel the region.

Read more about pop-up events at UP Express

Apply to become a licensee of Metrolinx, GO Transit, PRESTO or UP Express, for production of:

• Apparel
• Promotional Items
• Model Trains & Real Property Replicas
• Other

For the Metrolinx Licensee Application Process, click here.

For our Licensee Application form, click here.

Please submit completed application forms and supporting documents to licensing@metrolinx.com. Our team will contact you after we review your application.

Current list of licensees

• Awesome Diecast (Buses)

Hop on to The Metrolinx Shop, our online store full of great gift ideas for transit riders with fun merchandise featuring our iconic brands– Metrolinx, GO Transit, UP Express and PRESTO.