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In 2003, Council cancelled the bridge after Toronto Mayor David Miller was elected on a platform to cancel the bridge. [127] The Port Authority bought two new car ferries instead. In 2009, the Toronto Port Authority (TPA), operator of the airport, first proposed to build a pedestrian tunnel connecting the airport with the mainland, at a cost of ...
Toronto–North Bay Toronto – North Bay: April 1, 1978 January 14, 1990 Maple Leaf: Toronto – Niagara Falls – New York: April 26, 1981 Present Operated by Amtrak in the US Moncton–Edmundston: Moncton – Edmundston April 1, 1978 November 14, 1981 October 28, 1984 January 14, 1990 Montreal–Chicoutimi
On 2 November 1977 G-BOAE was the same aircraft that Queen Elizabeth II traveled flying from GAIA to London Heathrow, England. That occasion was the first visit by Concorde to Barbados. [69] The Concorde Experience closed on 1 July 2018 and in November 2024 the hangar was repurposed into a new departures terminal for air-sea passengers.
Yonge Street Bridge – steel truss bridge south of Hogg's Hollow (York Mills Road) carried Yonge Street traffic over West branch of the Don River and (North Yonge Railways ran on single track on the outer west side of bridge until 1948) until 1954 when it washed out during Hurricane Hazel. A temporary bailey bridge was built after November ...
Toronto Pearson is the primary hub for Air Canada. [11] It also serves as a focus city for WestJet, a hub for cargo airline FedEx Express, and as a base of operations for Air Transat and Sunwing Airlines. Toronto Pearson is operated by the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) as part of Transport Canada's National Airports System. [12]
Toronto's Union Station is Canada's largest and most opulent railway station. The Montreal architecture firm of Ross and Macdonald designed the building in the Beaux-Arts style as a joint venture between the Grand Trunk Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, with help from CPR architect Hugh Jones and Toronto architect John M. Lyle.
From the 1970s to the 1990s, the Toronto hub for GO Transit bus services was the Elizabeth Street annex to the Toronto Coach Terminal at Bay and Dundas Streets, with some routes also stopping curb-side at the Union Station train terminal, or the Royal York Hotel opposite it, from the inception of the GO Bus service on September 8, 1970. [8]
Construction began in early 1928, with the bridge opening on January 5, 1929, providing a much-needed bypass of the deep ravine. Yonge Boulevard crossed the bridge, connecting to Highway 11 north and south of the valley. [7] While under construction, the City of Toronto and DHO examined a new route parallel to Yonge Street south to the lakefront.