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The Birchmount Loop marked the easternmost extension of the
The Birchmount Loop marked the easternmost extension of the Toronto Transit Commission
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is the public transport agency that operates bus, subway, streetcar, and paratransit services in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, some of which run into the Peel Region and York Region. It is the oldest and larges ...
(TTC) streetcar system.
When it was built the old City of Toronto
Old Toronto is that part of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that corresponds to the original City of Toronto which existed from 1834 to 1998. It was first incorporated as a city in 1834, after being known as the town of York, and being part of York ...
's eastern boundary ended at Victoria Park Avenue
Victoria Park Avenue is a major north-south route in eastern Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the western border of Scarborough, separating it from Old Toronto, East York, and North York. The common nickname for it is VP or Vic Park.
History
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, and extending the Kingston Road streetcar east to Birchmount Road took it deep into the Township of Scarborough, Ontario. However, the TTC's Scarboro radial line, originally a privately operated line, continued farther east until 1936.
When the TTC was created in 1921 it started to build streetcar service farther east.
They first extended double track TTC service to the current Bingham Loop
Bingham Loop is a station and turning loop at the eastern terminus of the 503 Kingston Rd streetcar lines of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). It lies between Victoria Park Avenue and Bingham Avenue, just north of Kingston Road in Toronto.
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, at Victoria Park Avenue
Victoria Park Avenue is a major north-south route in eastern Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the western border of Scarborough, separating it from Old Toronto, East York, and North York. The common nickname for it is VP or Vic Park.
History
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, in 1922 replacing a portion of the Scarboro radial.
The TTC stopped running Kingston Road streetcars as far as the Birchmount Loop in 1954
after the introduction of a new fare zone system and a reorganization of the suburban bus network.
The streetcar route was transferred to Scarborough bus route, 86 Scarboro and now as 12 Kingston Road. The site of the old loop on the southeast corner is now occupied by a series of homes.
References
External links
{{Ontario-transport-stub Toronto streetcar loops