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3 unusual facts about Toronto streetcar system


Toronto streetcar system

According to Steve Munro, an expert on the history of Toronto area transit, TTC gauge is "English carriage gauge".

Up to 17 people, including four schoolchildren, were sent to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries after a 505 Dundas streetcar heading eastbound collided with a Greyhound Canada bus at River Street.

The group was led by professor Andrew Biemiller and transit advocate Steve Munro, and had the support of city councillors William Kilbourn and Paul Pickett, and urban advocate Jane Jacobs.



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