Talk:Toronto streetcar system

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Route map

Greetings! I've taken the liberty of creating and adding a streetcar route map, based somewhat on the current TTC subway/RT map and its 'future' cousin I created. Thoughts? Enjoy! E Pluribus Anthony 17:33, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Looks nice! The one thing I would suggest is to have separate colours for north-south and east-west lines; as it is, it's hard to tell the lines apart. David Arthur 18:45, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there; thanks for the praise and comments. I thought about doing that; however, I'm remiss about colourising the lines: other colours in the maps we've done have an 'official' connotation/basis (i.e., current system usage), with red representing surface routes, and I would not want to cause a visitor to make such an inference (I know: I can be picky ;)). I also think that the route numbers (which I've placed at route termini) will be sufficient. I'm also hopeful to create some maps for individual streetcar routes, and I think those will be wholly clear: they will exhibit only the line in question and cross-connections with others.

Perhaps we can add arrows to some of the lines, particularly where they overlap or converge? The only other thing I can think of doing is to make it bigger, where users can clearly discern different lines (but to still constrain it within the article). Thoughts? E Pluribus Anthony 19:35, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say at least a slightly different shade of red - I'm sure there's one somewhere in the TTC's colours :). I think it would be much more useful; at the moment it just has a tendency to meld into one huge blob of red lines. David Arthur 20:03, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I know ... the blob is not desirable; I'll see what I can do. :) Thanks again! E Pluribus Anthony 22:43, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

One point - this is a subway map, not as you say, a 'streetcar' map. ?

Tramway Abandonmet

"After World War II, the TTC began plans to eliminate all streetcar routes. During the 1960s and 1970s, in part because subway development was thought to eliminate the need for them, but this policy was dropped in the face of widespread community opposition by citizens' groups who succeeded in persuading the TTC of the advantages of streetcars over buses on heavily-travelled main routes."

I gather that had the policy been dropped earlier, the "streetcar" (tramway) system in Toronto would be the largest survivor in the English speaking world.144.139.87.133Febuary 2006