After last week’s TTC meeting, an article appeared in the National Post claiming that the TTC had just authorized purchase of 96 new streetcars from Siemens. Continue reading →

Here’s a streetcar design that’s been around for a while, and it served us all well.  We could have had a new generation of these cars back in the 1970s, but Queen’s Park and the UTDC gave us the CLRV instead.  The Edsel of the streetcar, as a former Chief General Manager once said.

Here is a PDF version of a single file rather than four separate images.

Updated February 7, 2018 with higher resolution images.

TTC plans for a new streetcar fleet moved onto the front burner at the April 19th meeting of the Commission.  After a staff update on the CLRV rebuild program and possible timetables for new streetcar purchases, the Commission decided that:

• Only 100 CLRVs will be rebuilt, not 196.
• New streetcars will be procured with a prototype to be delivered in 2010 and production deliveries from 2011 through early 2014.
• The Commission will take a package consolidating all information about streetcar fleet planning through the committee cycle (Budget Advisory, Policy & Finance, Council) in May.  Continue reading →

It’s time to catch up on the backlog of comments.  Here are several that came in about various aspects of streetcar operations over the past weeks: Continue reading →

On April 10, Kevin McGrann wrote an article “TTC Shops for Streetcars” in The Star.  Here are a few additional thoughts on the topic.  First the policy stuff, then the technical bits. Continue reading →