Tram transport in Canada

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 45. Chapters: Toronto streetcar system, Tram vehicles of Canada, PCC streetcar, 512 St. Clair, Toronto streetcar loops, 501 Queen, Sheppard East LRT, 510 Spadina, Eglinton Crosstown LRT, Birney, 509 Harbourfront, Vancouver Downtown Historic Railway, Peter Witt streetcar, Union, 504 King, Don Mills LRT, St. Clair West, Jane LRT, Queens Quay, High Level Bridge Streetcar, Edmonton Radial Railway Society, Etobicoke-Finch West LRT, Waterfront West LRT, 506 Carlton, Nelson Electric Tramway, Dundas West, Siemens¿Duewag U2, Whitehorse trolley, Main Street, Queen line, Halton County Radial Railway, Siemens SD-100 and SD-160, 505 Dundas, Scarborough Malvern LRT, 508 Lake Shore, Broadview, 502 Downtowner, 511 Bathurst, 503 Kingston Rd, Exhibition Loop. Excerpt: The Toronto streetcar system comprises eleven streetcar routes in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), and is the largest such system in the Americas in terms of ridership, number of cars, and track length. The network is concentrated primarily in downtown and in proximity to the city's waterfront. Much of the streetcar route network dates back to the 19th century. Unlike newer light rail systems, most of Toronto's streetcar routes operate in the classic style on street trackage shared with car traffic, and streetcars stop on demand at frequent stops like buses. Some routes do operate wholly or partly within their own rights-of-way, but they still stop on demand at frequent stops. There are underground connections between streetcars and the subway at Union, Spadina, and St. Clair West stations, and streetcars enter St. Clair, Bathurst, Broadview, Dundas West, and Main Street stations at street level. At these stations, no proof of payment is required to transfer to or from the subway, as the streetcars stop within the stations' fare-paid areas. At the eight downtown stations, excepting Union, from Queen's Park to College on the Yonge¿University¿Spadina subway line, streetcars stop on the street outside the station entrances, and proof of payment is required to transfer to or from the subway. Despite the use of techniques long removed in the streetcar networks of other North American cities, Torontös streetcars are not heritage streetcars run for tourism or nostalgic purposes; they provide most of the downtown core¿s surface transit service, and four of the TTC's five most heavily used surface routes are streetcar routes. In 2006, ridership on the streetcar system totalled more than 52 million. Streetcars at Bay and Queen in 1923 This Peter Witt streetcar, preserved at the Halton County Radial Railway, has been restored into the TTC¿s original 1921 livery.In 1861, the city of Toronto issued a thirty-year transit franchise (Reso