TORONTO

ROUTES

Operator: Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)

STREETCAR ROUTES

Note: The numbered route designations have been in use since the late 1970s . However, the route names also continue to be used.

501	QUEEN	Long Branch - Lake Shore Blvd. - Queensway - Queen St. - Neville Park
502	DOWNTOWNER	McCaul Loop - Queen St. - Kingston Rd. - Victoria Park Ave. & Kingston Rd. (Bingham Loop)
(503)	KINGSTON ROAD TRIPPER	York St. - King St.(return: Church St. - Wellington St.) - King St. - Queen St. - Kingston Rd. - Victoria Park Ave. & Kingston Rd. (Bingham Loop)
504	KING	Dundas W & Bloor - Roncesvalles Ave. - King St. - Queen St. - Broadview Ave. - Broadview & Danforth
505	DUNDAS	Dundas W & Bloor - Dundas St. - Gerrard St. - Broadview Ave. - Broadview & Danforth
506	CARLTON	Howard Park Ave. (High Park) - College St. - Carlton St. - Gerrard St. - Main St. - Main & Danforth
(508)	LAKESHORE	Long Branch - Lake Shore Blvd. - Queensway - King St. - (Parliament St.) [back: Victoria & Queen - Queen St. - Church St.-]
509	HARBOURFRONT	Union Station - Queens Quay - Fleet St. - Exhibition
510	SPADINA	Union Station - Queens Quay - Spadina Ave. - Spadina & Bloor
511	BATHURST	Bathurst & Bloor - Bathurst St. - Fleet St. - Exhibition
512	ST. CLAIR	Keele & St. Clair - St. Clair Ave. - Yonge & St. Clair

SCARBOROUGH LIGHT RAPID TRANSIT (LRT) LINE

LRT

Kennedy Station - Scarborough Town Centre (McCowan)

SUBWAY ROUTES

Note: The lettered route designations are of an indicative nature only. The official names of the routes are given in the second column in capitals.

B-D	BLOOR-DANFORTH	Kipling - Bloor - Danforth - Kennedy
Y-S	YONGE-UNIVERSITY-SPADINA	Finch - Yonge - Union Station - University - Spadina - Spadina Expressway - Downsview
S	SHEPPARD	Yonge - Sheppard - Don Mills

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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH

• Streetcar lines: 94 km.
• Scarborough LRT line: 6 km.
• Subway lines: 62 km.



HISTORY

• Streetcars: (horse-powered) 11 Sept. 1861 - 30 Aug. 1894; (electric) 15 Aug. 1892 - today.
• Subway: 30 Mar. 1954 - today.
• LRT (Scarborough Rapid Transit): 22 Mar. 1985 - today.

GAUGE

• Streetcars: 1495 mm.
• Subway : 1495 mm.
• LRT: 1435 mm.

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SOURCES

PRINT

• Bromley, J.F. TTC '28: The electric railway services of the Toronto Transportation Commission in 1928. Toronto: Upper Canada Railway Society, 1968.
• Filey, M. Not a one-horse town: 125 years of Toronto and its streetcars. Toronto: [Author], 1986.
• Filey, M. The TTC story: The first seventy-five years. Toronto/Oxford: Dundurn Press, 1996.
• Skelsey, G. "Toronto: The TTC's streetcars at 80 (Part 4)", Tramways & Urban Transit, Jan. 2001 (64:757), p.15-18.
• Taplin, M.R. Tramways of North America, including rapid transit.Hassocks (England): Light Rail Transit Association, 1982 (?).
• Wickson, E.A. "Toronto's new Light Rail Line". In: Light Rail Review 2. London: Light Rail Transit Association, 2000 [p.63-65].

WIKIS

• Scarborough RT (TTC) [En]
• Toronto streetcar system [En]
• Toronto subway and RT [En]
• Toronto Transit Commission [En]

WEB SITES

• Canadian Street Railways [En]
• Steve Munro's Web Site (dedicated to public transit in Toronto) [En]
• Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) [En]
• Transit Toronto [En]

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PHOTOGRAPHS

Distant view of a Peter Witt streetcar, once the most common model in the system, but taken out of regular service in 1963. This photo of a tourist streetcar was taken in the mid-1980s, probably on McCaul Street, connecting Queen and Dundas.	A PCC streetcar, still in regular service on the 501 (Queen) route in the summer of 1983.
Another photo of a PCC streetcar, in advertising livery, on the new 510 (Spadina) route, in the summer of 2003.	Photo of a CLRV car, of the latest generation of Toronto streetcars, on the 510 (Spadina) route, in the summer of 2003. The University of Toronto Athletic Centre is in the background.
Photo of a CLRV streetcar, emerging from McCaul Terminus Loop, summer 2005.	Photo of an articulated ALRV streetcar on the 501 (Queen) route at the Humber Loop, summer 2005.
Another view of an articulated ALRV streetcar on the 501 (Queen) route, on Queen Street between Spadina Street and University Ave., summer 2003.	Photo of a Scarborough LRT vehicle at Kennedy Station, summer 2003.