Effective April 27, streetcar service on 501 Queen resumed its normal route between Broadview and Parliament rather than diverting via Dundas Street.
The 503 Kingston Road bus also resumed its normal route between the Don River and Parliament running via King rather than via Queen.
The split operation of 504 King with all streetcars running to Distillery Loop and a 504D shuttle between Parliament and Broadview Station will continue until the schedule change on May 3 when full streetcar service over 504 will resume. Similarly the split 304 King night car and 301 Queen night bus operation will be replaced with 304 streetcars over the full route.
This change has been announced by the TTC via a press release, but does not appear on their Service Changes page. The underlying online schedules will not be updated until May 3, and so trip prediction apps will not give valid information for 501 and 503 services between Broadview and Parliament in the interim.
For a complete list of current and past streetcar diversions, see my Where Is My Streetcar page.
Steve Munro 
Cannot seem to get the comment section to work…..anyways as usual asking about the return of streetcars to Kingston rd (503). If ever. Thx.
Paul Archer
Steve: Nothing definite on this yet, and the earliest I would expect would be mid-Fall because of the planned reconstruction at King & York starting after Labour Day.
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Everything about this construction project has been absolutely baffling to watch, and it forced me to refer back to your great piece from December where you stated:
In the case of this work those of us who live in the area observed that work seemed to stop completely for about a month from mid-December until mid January, before starting up again. Once all of the construction work concluded at the end of March, the TTC update stated:
I am doubtful that there remained an additional 5 weeks of overhead upgrades and testing, and would love to know how many actual working days went into this 5 week pause before the resumption of service — there was a handful of days of observable work being performed in the area, but that was it.
All told, this project looked to have approximately two months of slack in it that could have easily been tightened up to get these routes back to regular operation months ahead of schedule. The performance of the routes in the meantime has been absolutely abysmal and deeply disruptive to everybody who relies on them.
At every step, there seems to be a complete lack of urgency in this or any other similar project. Even small details like updating the positioning and stops for vehicles in the route planning system runs weeks (or more!) behind the changes, for example: in February, the 504D westbound bus began rerouting around the construction closure, across Dundas and down River St. This ended at the end of March when Queen reopened to traffic in both directions. The 504D is *still* not reflected properly at westbound stops on this route, and instead is reported as a phantom bus travelling on River St over 4 weeks after this change.
Steve: There was one piece of emergency work for a sewer on the south side of Queen that fouled up the schedule in December, I think, and of course some slack to allow for bad weather that was particularly bad this year. All that said, they did not exactly rush to get normal operation back in place, and public info is non-existent. Similarly Bay & College has been finished for some time, but the diversions continue to May 2.
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They also did not bother to repair the areas around the special work at King and at Broadview despite digging up the entire area and going the extra mile with added scope west of River and east of Broadview.
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