W. K. Lis
Superstar
Hope the volume is self-adjusting. Or at the very least, adjustable by the driver.
Chris Bateman said:Happy birthday to the Toronto streetcar system
There are perhaps few things more symbolic of Toronto than its streetcars. For more than 150 years, surface rail has formed the backbone of the city’s public transportation system, and despite numerous struggles and threats of abolition, it’s still streetcars that principally serve the downtown core: 240 vehicles carrying some 290,000 daily riders across 11 lines.
154 years ago this week, work started on the city’s first streetcar route: a horse-drawn “street railway” between Yorkville town hall just north of Yonge and Bloor and St. Lawrence Hall on King St.
The route was chosen based on its popularity. The city’s first public transit company, founded by cabinet maker and undertaker H. Burt Williams in 1849, operated a stagecoach service between roughly the same two points, linking the Toronto’s main market with what was then the independent town of Yorkville.
Today is the 154th birthday of Toronto's streetcar system.
Read the rest at Spacing: http://spacing.ca/toronto/2015/08/19/happy-birthday-toronto-streetcar-system/
I'll be accepting birthday cakes on behalf of Toronto's streetcar system. Toronto's streetcars prefer red velvet
Today is the 154th birthday of Toronto's streetcar system.
I'll be accepting birthday cakes on behalf of Toronto's streetcar system. Toronto's streetcars prefer red velvet
The streetcars are now horseless. So too are the single-occupant carriages.
The bad news is that there are so many of the single-occupant horseless carriages, that we seem to have traffic congestion all day long because of them.
We should get together and deliver a streetcar cake on RoFo and DoFo's front porches. The look on their faces would be priceless!
If there's any extra after Ro and DoFo eat their cake, ill certainly send some over. But that really hinges on how much cake the two of them end up eating.Or you could deliver it to my porch
If there's any extra after Ro and DoFo eat their cake, ill certainly send some over. But that really hinges on how much cake the two of them end up eating.
Having so many of these single-occupant horseless carriages on the road sounds horribly inefficient.
They are installing new tracks. If you go along Eastern, you can see that they are reconfiguring the road a bit, and building a sidewalk between the roadway and the tracks.What's going on at the Queen St. East rail shed? It looks like they've installed new tracks, but isn't this shed destined to close after the Leslie St. shed opens?