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The Toronto streetcar system is a network of eleven streetcar routes in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). It is the third busiest light-rail system in North America. The network is concentrated primarily in Downtown Toronto and in proximity to the city's waterfront. Much of the streetcar route network ...
A CLRV streetcar on a winter day on the 510 Spadina line. In 2005, The Globe and Mail newspaper published an article that criticized the switch to a dedicated right-of-way streetcar as being less beneficial than promised. Based on TTC documents, the author argued that service is about one minute slower (from Queens Quay to Bloor) during ...
The 508 Lake Shore is an east–west streetcar route in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). The route serves the downtown financial district operating between the western limit of the city, and the western edge of Toronto's east end. The route is a weekday rush-hour service.
Ramp between Queens Quay West and the station level in 2009. North of this station, the lines enter an underground loop at Union subway station, below Union Station, the city's main railway station; to the south, they emerge from the tunnel onto Queens Quay, where they run west in a dedicated right-of-way as far as Spadina Avenue, where the two routes diverge; the 509 continues west to ...
Broadview is a subway station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.The entrance to the building is from Broadview Avenue just north of Danforth Avenue.. The station, which is the north-eastern terminus of the 504B King, 505 Dundas, and 508 Lake Shore streetcar routes, has two streetcar platforms and five bus bays to allow riders to transfer between connecting routes.
Bloor–Yonge is a subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University and Line 2 Bloor–Danforth in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located in Downtown Toronto, under the intersection of Yonge Street and Bloor Street, it is the busiest subway station in the system, handling over 200,000 passengers on an average weekday. [3] Wi-Fi is available at this ...
Dundas West station opened in 1966 as a part of the initial segment of the Bloor–Danforth line between Keele and Woodbine. In 2002, as part of a scheduled reconstruction of the streetcar tracks on Dundas Street, a second streetcar track and platform were added to improve reliability on both the 504 King and 505 Dundas streetcar routes. Until ...
In 2021, the City of Toronto was planning the Waterfront East LRT, a new streetcar line to run on its own right-of-way from Union Station to Toronto's Port Lands. At that time, city planners considered three alternative locations for a terminus loop: at Parliament Street and Queens Quay East (a temporary loop), at Distillery Loop or at Polson ...