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Streetcars For Toronto: An Anniversary

Steve Munro on the citizens’ group that saved streetcars in Toronto. Contains lots of examples of failed transit schemes through the ages:

At the same time, the TTC also planned to build a Queen subway (what we now call the Downtown Relief Line), to soak up many of the transit riders on the King, Queen, and Dundas cars. Scheduled completion for that subway: 1980.

• November 9, 2012, 6:20 pm |