[URBAN NOTE] "Tunnel Vision: A History of Toronto’s Subway"

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I am going to see this, Saturday I think. From Torontoist's Sean Marshall:

In 1861, St. Lawrence Market was the terminus of Canada’s first streetcar line—a horse-powered tramway that operated from Yorkville, down Yonge Street, and across King Street to the market. Ninety-three years later, streetcars on Yonge Street were replaced by Canada’s first subway line. Within twenty years, the subway extended into Etobicoke, North York, and Scarborough; it was the pride of the city. Since the mid-1970s, however, progress on rapid transit stalled as politics, rather than demand, dictated funding.

Today, St. Lawrence Market hosts Tunnel Vision: The Story of Toronto’s Subway in the City of Toronto’s Market Gallery. The exhibition, in partnership with the Toronto Transportation Society, and guest curated by the TTS’ Adam Zhelka and Robert Lubinski, brings together maps, photographs, plans, drawings, memorabilia, old equipment and the front of a 1974 subway car.

It’s a fascinating display that celebrates the story of Toronto’s subways.