LESLIEVILLE RESIDENTS DO NOT WANT LRV MAINTENANCE YARD

Leslieville not feeling the L(u)RV

Despite community objections and local city councillors’ requests for time to examine other options, on Feb. 2 the TTC voted to move ahead with its Ashbridges Bay Light Rail Vehicle (LRV) storage yard. The $345 million facility at the southeast corner of Lake Shore Boulevard and Leslie Street will house about half of the 204 light rail vehicles that are on order to replace the TTC's iconic but aging streetcar fleet starting in 2013.

Once the yard is operational, every morning between 5am and 7am about 85 LRVs, each nearly twice as long as current streetcars, will roll up Leslie Street (about one every 90 seconds), through four sets of tightly spaced traffic lights, then turn west on Queen Street and head to Broadview, where they’ll disperse to their respective routes. Many of them would be returning to the yard in the overnight period....

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