The City/TTC project to rebuild utilities, track and the roadway on King Street between Dufferin and Shaw Streets has completed earlier than originally planned. The roadway is now open, and TTC will be restoring power to allow testing of its new tracks and overhead.
Streetcar service between Shaw and Roncesvalles on King will resume with the October schedule change on October 6. Affected routes will resume their normal destinations:
- 501 Queen will operate to Humber Loop.
- 504B King will operate to Dufferin Loop.
- 63 Ossington will resume its Liberty Village loop via Atlantic Avenue and King Street. (Although there was a proposal to change this route to use Dufferin Loop as a western terminus in the Service Plan, this is not being implemented.)
This project originally included the reconstruction of the King/Dufferin intersection, but this was deferred to 2025 as part of a planned water main and track replacement project from Dufferin Street west to Close Avenue.
According to the TOInview map of planned construction work, other water main and track projects affecting King Street in 2025 include:
- The Church Street intersection
- Shaw to Bathurst
Updated September 18, 2024 at 3:40 pm:
The 63 Ossington bus will revert to using Atlantic Avenue, and then King west to Roncesvalles on Monday, September 16 until October 5. From October 6 onward, the Ossington bus will loop east on King to Shaw, its original pre-construction route and streetcars will serve King Street.
Nice to have some good news, and how much earlier than forecast is this?
Steve: Originally expected for mid-November.
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Wasn’t Shaw to Bathurst done in 2022? Streetcars definitely weren’t running west of Bathurst for a while.
Steve: That was the intersection of King and Shaw and immediately nearby areas. In 2024 they did from west of Shaw to Dufferin, and in 2025 plan east of Shaw to Bathurst.
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Would have liked to see 504B continue through Parkdale to Sunnyside. Maybe next year.
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Steve: That was the intersection of King and Shaw and immediately nearby areas. In 2024 they did from west of Shaw to Dufferin, and in 2025 plan east of Shaw to Bathurst.
That’s a real shame, since the impact on the ground was no service west of Bathurst in 2022. That means no streetcar service to Liberty Village for 3 of 4 consecutive summers. Surely the city has the fiscal and project delivery capacities to have done this in one shot.
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