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From: howard@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Howard Lem)
Date: Mon, 22-May-89 20:30:44 EDT
Message-ID: <1989May22.203044.23262@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: Old streetcar routes
References: <267@sickkids.UUCP>
Reply-To: howard@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Howard Lem)
Distribution: tor

In article <267@sickkids.UUCP> mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt) writes:
>Last Friday I noticed that the portion of Elizabeth Street between
>Dundas and City Hall is being torn up and repaved.  Among the other
>expected sorts of street rubble were some ancient streetcar tracks.
>I've seen a number of old maps of streetcar routes, but I don't
>recall ever having noticed anything on any portion of Elizabeth
>Street.
>
>Does anyone (Mark Brader, most likely) have any idea what these
>tracks were used for?  I suspect they were part of a turnaround
>loop for short-turned Bay Street cars, back in the days when Bay
>street had streetcars rather than trolley buses.  But I'm fairly
>certain that I've never seen a map that shows this.
>
It was part of the dundas line that used to terminate at the by the old
city hall (really going around the old EATON'S annex store).  The street
cars stopped going down Elizabeth St. when the 'new' city hall was built.
(The street cars were re-routed down bay to Louisa and around the Eaton's)
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