TORONTO

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ROUTES

Operator: Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)

Note: The lettered route designations are of an indicative nature only, they were never used as such. The official names of the routes are given in the second column in capitals.

STREETCAR ROUTES

BA	BATHURST	Bathurst & Bloor - Bathurst St. - Fleet St. - Exhibition
C	CARLTON	Howard Park Ave. (High Park) - College St. - Carlton St. - Gerrard St. - Main St. - Main & Danforth
D	DUNDAS	Dundas W & Bloor - Dundas St. - Gerrard St. - Broadview Ave. - Broadview & Danforth
DT	DOWNTOWNER	Bathurst & Bloor - Bathurst St. - Queen St. - Kingston Rd. - Victoria Park Ave. & Kingston Rd. (Bingham Loop)
E	EARLSCOURT	Lansdowne & St. Clair - St Clair Ave. - Yonge & St. Clair
K	KING	Dundas W & Bloor - Roncesvalles Ave. - King St. - Queen St. - Broadview Ave. - Broadview & Danforth
KR	KINGSTON ROAD	Roncesvalles & Queen - King St. - Queen St. - Kingston Rd. - Victoria Park Ave. & Kingston Rd. (Bingham Loop)
LB	LONG BRANCH	Humber Loop - Lake Shore Blvd. - Long Branch
MP	MT. PLEASANT	Yonge & St. Clair - St. Clair Ave. - Mt. Pleasant Rd. - Mt. Pleasant & Eglinton
Q	QUEEN	Humber Loop - Queensway - Queen St. - Neville Park
SC	ST. CLAIR	Keele & St. Clair - St. Clair Ave. - Yonge & St. Clair

SUBWAY ROUTES

B-D	BLOOR-DANFORTH	Bloor & Islington - Bloor - Danforth - Warden
Y-U	YONGE-UNIVERSITY	Finch - Yonge - Union Station - University - Bloor & St.George

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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH

• Streetcars: ? km.
• Subway: ? 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.
• Simons, V. "Toronto: Making the move", Tramways & Urban Transit, Oct. 2013 (76:910), p.420-426.
• 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

• Metrolinx
• Scarborough RT (TTC)
• Toronto streetcar system
• Toronto subway and RT
• Toronto Transit Commission

WEB SITES

• The Big Move
• Canadian Street Railways
• Canadian Transit
• Metrolinx
• Steve Munro's Web Site (dedicated to public transit in Toronto)
• Toronto (on UrbanRailNet)
• Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
• Transit Toronto
• TTS (Toronto Transportation Society) Online

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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.