Year-end 2019 saw the retirement of a unique, Canadian-designed and built streetcar: the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) Canadian Light Rail Vehicle (CLRV) after 40 years of service, a near-record in ...

Dear reader, before you say to yourself, “Hey, Filey, what’s this? Another column about Toronto streetcars? You did one last week!” To be sure, you are absolutely right. I did, but in my defence, I ...

On a freezing cold day 40 years ago, Toronto got its first glimpse of the next chapter in its streetcar history. Cherry red, with a rounded snout, the first of the Canadian Light Rail Vehicle (CLRV) ...

In the early 1970s, the TTC, like transit providers in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Montreal, Vancouver, and numerous other cities, was preparing to do away with its streetcar network. With each new ...

Toronto has a very long history of streetcars dating all the way back to the 1860s, but since the ultra-modern Bombardier versions hit the tracks in 2016, it's hard to forget their special ...

It's out with the old, and in with the new for the TTC. The transit commission officially retires the last of its Canadian Light Rail Vehicle (CLRV) streetcar fleet Sunday, 42 years to the day after ...

The Toronto Transit Commission’s fleet of legacy streetcars, a familiar sight on local streets, are set to be retired at the end of the year. “After four decades of service to Toronto commuters, the ...

Toronto’s iconic Canadian Light Rail Vehicles (aka CLRVs or just plain streetcars) have quite literally come to the end of the line with a few of the vehicles operating for the last time on the 511 ...

It was an event that few people within or outside the transit industry had ever expected to see: the arrival of a brand new streetcar in Toronto. However, that was exactly what happened on a bitterly ...