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On December 12, 1975, a TTC bus travelling east on St. Clair Avenue collided with a westbound GO Transit train at the level crossing between Danforth Road and Midland Avenue just north of the Scarborough GO Train Station. Nine people were killed and 20 others injured.
The Toronto subway is a rapid transit system serving Toronto and the neighbouring city of Vaughan in Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). As of September 2023, the subway system is a rail network consisting of three heavy-capacity rail lines operating predominantly underground. As of December 2022, three new lines ...
A surface section of Line 1 in the median of Allen Road. The TTC's heavy rail lines – Lines 1, 2, and 4 – are built to the unique Toronto gauge of 4 ft 10⁄ in (1,495 mm), which is the same gauge used on the city's streetcar system. However, the former Line 3 Scarborough light metro system (which operated between 1985 and 2023) used ...
Line 3 Scarborough, a light metro line with six stations, was permanently closed in July 2023. As of August 2023, three new lines are under construction, two light rail lines and one light metro line: Line 5 Eglinton, a 25-station, 19-kilometre (12 mi) line along Eglinton Avenue, scheduled to open in 2024. A 9.2-kilometre (5.7 mi) extension of ...
Line 2 Bloor–Danforth. Line 2 Bloor–Danforth is a rapid transit line in the Toronto subway system, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). [4] It has 31 stations and is 26.2 kilometres (16.3 mi) in length. It opened on February 26, 1966, [5][6][7] and extensions at both ends were completed in 1968 and again in 1980.
Starting on February 6, Via Rail announced passenger train cancellations on a day-to-day basis. Trains on the Toronto-Ottawa and Toronto-Montreal routes were cancelled first. Prince George-Prince Rupert service was suspended on February 11. Canadian National Railway (CNR) rail freight traffic was also halted along these lines.
Track gauge. 4 ft 10 + 7⁄8 in (1,495 mm) Toronto gauge (subway, streetcar) 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in) 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 ...
August 22, 2024 at 6:53 PM. The two largest rail companies in Canada locked out nearly 10,000 unionized employees on Thursday after failed labor talks, leading to a freight stoppage projected to ...