{"id":892,"date":"2006-06-19T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=892"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:13:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:13:05","slug":"spacing-melbourne-vs-toronto-lrt-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/06\/19\/spacing-melbourne-vs-toronto-lrt-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"SPACING: Melbourne vs. Toronto: LRT showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/melbourne-ttc-small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each Monday, Spacing.ca is posting articles to the Spacing Archives. This week&#8217;s piece is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacing.ca\/archives\/30\/\"><strong>comparison of Toronto and Melbourne, Australia&#8217;s LRT systems<\/strong><\/a>. <em>Spacing<\/em> contributor Ian Malczewski spent a year living Down Under and thinks the former penal colony can teach us a few things about tweaking our streetcars. Here&#8217;s one tidbit to get you going:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Melbourne, riding trams is an essential part of the city experience, a fact of which city planners are well aware. The City Circle Tram is a free tram that runs in a loop around the the downtown core during daylight hours. The vintage trams are refurbished W-class trams, some of the oldest in the city, and a recorded voice narrates the history of the buildings and locations as you pass them. When my brother visited me, riding the City Circle Tram was one of the first things we did together.   Meanwhile, in Toronto, the beautiful PCC cars that were the face of the TTC for 60 years have been harvested for parts, scrapped, or sold off to places like Trolleyville, Ohio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Monday, Spacing.ca is posting articles to the Spacing Archives. This week&#8217;s piece is a comparison of Toronto and Melbourne, Australia&#8217;s LRT systems. 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