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Apr 16, 2024 · The history of public transit in Toronto has played a significant role in shaping the city’s economy. The evolution of transportation, from the introduction of trolley cars and streetcars to the implementation of the subway and bus systems, has greatly impacted how people commute and conduct business in the metro area.
Toronto visitors’ guide [ca. 1940] Fonds 200, Series 726, Item 199 (recto). TTC routing diagram of streetcar, bus, and coach services in effect September 1, 1943 Fonds 200, Series 726, Item 406. Toronto Metropolitan area showing transit services and distribution of 1950 population October 29, 1951, rev. 1953 Fonds 200, Series 726, Item 324.
- The Earliest Days
- The Rise of The Toronto Street Railway Company
- Steps Towards Electrification
- The First Stab at Public Ownership
- William Mackenzie Takes Over
- The TTC Through Boom, Bust and War
- Metropolitan Toronto and The Car Change The Picture
- Decline, Fall and Rise
- Where Do I Go from Here
- References
When Toronto was incorporated as a city in 1834, it had a long way to go towards becoming the metropolis of today; it’s population at the time was barely 10,000, or less than half the current population of Owen Sound. Though Toronto was already a significant commercial centre, the only transportation the city could boast were stagecoaches to and fr...
The popularity of Williams’ service had already demonstrated to city council and various business interests the viability of public transit in the city. This would prove to be his undoing. In 1861, Alex Easton, a Philadelphia native came to Toronto to help set up a conglomerate of local business owners to build a street railway in the city. Having ...
In the 1870s and 1880s, electricity transformed from an experimental curiosity into something practical that could light cities and moves vehicles about. The 1880s found John Joseph Wright, an English immigrant, experimenting with electricity in a small shop near Yonge and King, and selling light bulbs and the electricity to light them to various s...
As Toronto grew, so too did the ridership of the Toronto Street Railway, from 44000 in 1861 to 55000 in 1891, when the TSR’s 30-year franchise expired. On May 16, 1891, the city sought to take over the system. The attempt did not go as well as planned. The city first ordered the Toronto Street Railway Company to agree to hand over operations withou...
The Toronto Railway Company’s president and owner was William Mackenzie, a railroad mogul who had founded the Canadian Northern. In the TRC’s first years, Mackenzie introduced a number of innovations, and his leadership proved popular with the public. The new company maintained a five cent fare, introduced free transfers and reduced fares for child...
The 1920s was a period of great activity within Toronto. Not only was there considerable work in uniting the operations of the Toronto Railway Company and the Toronto Civic Railways, but the TTC had also inherited from the TRC an aging system which had been left to deteriorate by its disinterested owners on the eve of the end of their franchise. A ...
In the early 1950s, Toronto and its suburbs had to contend with sprawling development held back after two decades of depression and war. In order to answer the problem of sharing infrastructure funding and distribution, the Province of Ontario took the step of collecting Toronto and its twelve suburbs under the auspices of the Municipality of Metro...
In the 1970s and the 1980s, the Toronto Transit Commission was seen worldwide as a ‘transportation showcase’. From 1979 until 1990, it won awards after awards for safety and design. Unfortunately, in the 1990s, it fell upon hard times. Political foot-dragging slowed subway development to a crawl, and budget cuts, the recession, and the inability to...
Click here for our history of Toronto’s bus network, particularly 82 RosedaleBromley, John F., TTC ‘28, The Upper Canada Railway Society, Toronto (Ontario), 1968.Bromley, John F., and Jack May Fifty Years of Progressive Transit, Electric Railroaders’ Association, New York (New York), 1973.Filey, Mike, Not a One-Horse Town: 125 Years of Toronto and its Streetcars, Maps Project handbooks, Toronto (Ontario), 1999.Hood, J. William, Street Railways - Toronto: 1861 to 1930, Maps Project, Toronto (Ontario), 1999.Feb 9, 2012 · 351 King Street East, Suite 1600, Toronto, ON Canada, M5A 0N1 Andrew Saunders, President and CEO Interactive Map: The storied history of Toronto's transit plans - The Globe and Mail
May 17, 2024 · System Map - October 9, 2016 (PDF from the TTC website, showing the 93 PARKVIEW HILLS bus) (PDF - 4.3 Mb) System Map - June 19, 2016 (PDF from the TTC website, showing the 514 CHERRY streetcar) (PDF - 3.6 Mb) System Map - May 2016 (PDF from the TTC website) (PDF - 4.2 Mb) System Map - January 2016 (PDF from the TTC webs ite, drafted in a new ...
1,435 mm (4 ft8+1⁄2in) standard gauge (future LRT lines) The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is the public transport agency that operates bus, subway, streetcar, and paratransit services in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, some of which run into Peel Region and York Region.
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The Toronto subway is a rapid transit system serving Toronto, Canada. It consists of one elevated metro line and three heavy rail lines. Those four lines and 76 stations serve the second busiest system in Canada. It began operation in March 1954. Transfers between all services and modes are free. You can buy a ticket for a single ride or choose ...
