Toronto Transit Commission

The Toronto Transit Commission (including all taxes, or “Shipping company of Toronto”; who before 1954 was known under the name of “Toronto Transportation Commission”) is responsible for all the forms of Public transport urban in the town of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It operates four underground lines, of the Tramway S with the downtown area, and of the Autobus in all the city.

Only one ticket or token by voyage is enough to carry out free the correspondence between several lines and/or means of transport within a time prescribed.

Trams, slow train, bus and trolley bus

The first means of joint transport in Toronto was the service Omnibus of Williams, established in 1849, who circulated in the Rue Yonge, the central street making the North-South axis of the city. In 1861 the concession passed to the Toronto Street Railway (“Railroad of the street of Toronto”) which replaced the slow trains by Tramway S Hippomobile S; in 1891 the Toronto Railway Company (“Railroad company of Toronto”) succeeds the TSR and introduces the electric trams quickly. Those will remain the principal mode of public transport in the city until the end of the Second world war.

In 1921 the municipal government created the including all taxes to replace the TRC and other private operators, who did not offer a good service. The including all taxes modernized the network of tram by installing a new way and new vehicles, while trying out buses and trolley buses. After the war, it eliminated much from tram lines in favor of the buses, the trolley buses, and finally of the subway; for the new lines, the buses were strongly preferred. The elimination of the trams finished about 1975, then in the years 1990, the trolley buses were in their turn removed and replaced by buses.

The trams models CLRV and ALRV remainder serves mainly the older part of Toronto, the downtown area of today. The most recent rolling stock has a score of years.

Several subway stations the convenient correspondence without formality is ensured with the lines of bus or trams, and also between those, by making them penetrate inside the tariff zone. Contrary to these places and an underground station to tram - (509/510) in Queens Quay-, the trams and buses of the including all taxes do not have stations. They have many stops in the streets, where they stop only if somebody wants to go up or go down. To make the free correspondence there, one employs a ticket paper of correspondence (“English transfer”).

There are now eleven circuits of trams:

The network of bus includes/understands today more than 150 lines of day and still approximately a score of night. Almost all the services make a correspondence with the subway, of which much enters the tariffed zone of the stations.

Subway

In 1954, the including all taxes opened its first line of the subway, to replace the tram line charged with the city: still that of the street Yonge. This line connects Union Station to the south (the central station of Toronto used today especially by the trains of GO Transit and Via Rail Canada) with a suburban terminus with the Eglinton avenue. The line included/understood 12 stations then, and the voyage by subway did not last any more which 14 minutes, compared to half an hour by the old tram.

The growth of the network was fast until the years 1970, after which the development of the network was slower. In 2007, the subway of Toronto east made up of four lines and 69 stations; there are correspondences with the lines of bus and/or trams at each station. The underground lines are:

In English, the lines Yonge-University-Spadina, Bloor-Danforth and Sheppard are called the “subways”, because they are underground in their majority. A train of six cars comprises either 396 or or 456 seats, according to the model, and can transport more than thousand people during the rush hours. It is necessary to distinguish the short line from Sheppard where the trains have only four cars.

The Scarborough line is called in English “Scarborough RT” (“Rapid Transit”) or simply the “RT”. It is located partly at the level of the ground, and partly into air; it uses light trains whose four cars comprise only 120 sitted places. They are actuated by linear motor ; control is automatic, but an operator is present with the function to tighten a button of walk at each station.

See too

List of the stations of the subway of Toronto

External bonds

Toronto Transit Commission (official site)
Transit Toronto

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