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It’s great to see and hear the automated stop announcements<\/a> proliferating rapidly through Toronto’s streetcars. Last week, for the first, time, I took one of these streetcars to a part of town I wasn’t familiar with, and enjoyed the new experience of not having to look anxiously out the window to work out where I was and when I should get off.<\/p>\n

It made me realize that, now that there is a consistent name for each stop on the surface network, people will be able to give directions to their residence by telling visitors the name of the streetcar or bus stop they should get off at. It was never a problem for major streets, of course, but it was always a minor complication when visiting people who lived on residential streets where one couldn’t be sure where the nearest stop was, and couldn’t be sure if or how the driver would describe it when you approached it. Maybe it will now become part of the culture when giving directions — “Get off at the xxxx stop and walk west a block …”<\/p>\n

photo by Miles Storey<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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