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In the 1960s and ’70s, when other North American cities were scrapping their streetcars and tearing up track, Toronto citizens were clamoring to save theirs.
The whole Bombardier mess might never have happened had a group of concerned citizens, identified as the Streetcars for Toronto Committee, not got involved in early 1972 when the TTC decided to ...
Back in 1968 I was driving out near Georgetown when I came across the remains of an old Toronto streetcar, #2064, that had been built in 1917 in the Toronto Railway Company (TRC) factory near ...
After an entire summer of diversions, the TTC says major downtown streetcar routes will return to normal in early September.
In the early 1970s, the TTC, like transit providers in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Montreal, Vancouver, and numerous other cities, was preparing to do away with its streetcar network. With each ...
Long-suffering commuters on Toronto's overcrowded streetcar lines and bus routes will get some idea of how much money the city will spend on transit in 2020 when the draft budget is released at ...
CBC takes a ride on the TTC's new streetcars, which are set to enter service on Toronto streets early next year.
Alstom announced Nov. 17 that it has delivered the first of 60 additional new low-floor Flexity™ light rail vehicles to the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) as the first step in fulfilling a contract ...
At last passengers can feel good about being taken for a ride by the TTC. The Toronto Transit Commission’s new streetcars went into service Sunday morning and though it’s early days, it seems ...