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Toronto’s streetcar network in 1926
Sample of Roman Fomin’s 1926 map of streetcar and interurban map available on Transit Toronto Transit Toronto is a great website dedicated to, well...
By Sean Marshall -
LRT Today: World’s largest tram network in Melbourne
In the wake of last week’s decision to continue to build-out Toronto’s LRT plans — and since Mayor Rob Ford continues to mistakenly call any...
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The many streets of Dundas
TTC work crews laying new tracks on Dundas Street Diversion east of Yonge Street in 1923, linking former Agnes and Wilton Streets, and in the process...
By Sean Marshall -
STEVE MUNRO: The mayor of Transit City
Steve Munro writes the public transit column for Spacing and is a contributing editor to the magazine. This column is cross-posted from Steve...
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POLL: Should TTC eliminate some streetcar stops?
photo by Kevin Steele An often heard complaint about the TTC’s streetcar network is that some routes possess too many stops that are very close...
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Update: Minimum service standards introduced
UPDATE: The TTC has just issued a press release heralding the surface route service improvements coming this Sunday. The TTC website now has the details...
By Sean Marshall -
Streetcars and LRT: Toronto’s next steps
The Spadina Streetcar: not quite LRT Yesterday, I posted an article on Spacing Toronto briefly explaining the history and context for North...
By Sean Marshall -
Streetcars and LRT: the North American context
Los Angeles Metro Gold Line, Pasadena, California. The light rail renaissance that has taken place across North America has taken a few interesting...
By Sean Marshall -
“Streetcars for Toronto” – 35th Anniversary
Forgive the belated posting, but this November marked the 35th anniversary of Streetcars for Toronto’s (SfT) successful fight to keep the streetcar...
By Craig Cal -
Sustainable Transportation II: Bremen, Germany
Last week, I posted some of the interesting material I heard about Kingston, Ontario, at Moving the Economy‘s workshop on sustainable...
By Dylan Reid -
City Council TTC Report Card: Wards 12-22
Cross-posted to Spacing Votes WARD 12 (York/South Weston) – Frank Di Giorgio – D NOW magazine calls him “Frank Who?”. Voted to...
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Ride a Peter Witt streetcar, September 3
The Toronto Transportation Society will be offering Torontonians one of the few opportunities to travel Toronto’s streets in a vintage Peter Witt...
By James Bow