[URBAN NOTE] On the 514 Cherry streetcar route

[rfmcdonald]

In the Transit Toronto blog post "TTC hosts community event
to celebrate new streetcar route, June 18", Robert Mackenzie notes how the TTC is celebrating the launch of the new 514 Cherry streetcar route.

The TTC’s hosting a community event to celebrate the TTC’s 514 Cherry streetcar route, the first new streetcar route in Toronto in 16 years, this Saturday, June 18 at 10 a.m.

The new service officially starts the next day, Sunday, June 19.

Mayor John Tory, the chair of the Toronto Transit Commission Councillor Josh Colle, Julie Dabrusin, MP for Toronto-Danforth, and other municipal, provincial and federal officials to launch the new service at Distillery Loop on the east side of Cherry Street south of Mill Street.

After official remarks, you can ride a new low-floor Toronto Flexity car along all or part of the route free of fare.

The Flexity car will travel the entire route to Dufferin Gates Loop and return to King Street and Sumach Street picking up passengers along the way for a special free trip.

I'll be doing this route Sunday, I think.