User:Geo Swan/Sunnyside Loop
Sunnyside Loop | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | The Queensway Toronto, Ontario Canada |
| Coordinates | 43°38′20″N 79°26′54″W / 43.63889°N 79.44833°W |
| Operated by | Toronto Transit Commission |
| Construction | |
| Structure type | streetcar loop |
| History | |
| Opened | 26 July 1922 |
Sunnyside Loop is an anticlockwise streetcar loop operated by the Toronto Transit Commission to turn back westbound 501 Queen streetcars. It is located at the northeast corner of The Queensway and Sunnyside Avenue, adjacent to their Roncesvalles Carhouse property.[1] in the Sunnyside district of Toronto, Canada
Streetcars can only enter the loop westbound from The Queensway and exit southbound on Sunnyside Avenue to return eastbound. There is normally no passenger access.
The loop has also been used to facilitate special services like the Toronto Caribbean Carnival[2] and was formerly the terminus of the 313 Jane night bus. [3]
History
[edit]It was opened on July 26, 1922, a year after the newly created public TTC took over operating Toronto's streetcars from the private Toronto Railway Corporation, when its contract expired.[4] A bus terminal was added on December 21, 1936.
References
[edit]- ^ Fred W. Schneider, Stephen P. Carlson (1983). "PCC--from coast to coast". Interurban Press. p. 238. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
- ^ "TTC provides extra service to Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival". News. TTC. 30 July 2014. Retrieved March 2016.
504 King from Dundas West Station to Sunnyside Loop on Queen St. W.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "313 Jane, Route Description". TTC. Retrieved March 2016.
to Sunnyside Loop (on the northeast corner of The Queensway and Sunnyside Avenue).
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Wheels of Progress: A Story of the Development of Toronto and Its Public Transportation Services". Toronto Transportation Commission. 1942. p. 87, 113, 115. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
External links
[edit]Trial run of new Toronto streetcar at Sunnyside Loop on YouTube