Old Toronto Streetcar
When the Bloor-Danforth subway line opened in 1966, the TTC(The Toronto Transit Commission) made plans to eliminate all streetcars by 1980. This policy was dropped in 1972 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-traveled main routes. Toronto's streetcars provide most of the downtown core's surface transit service, and four of the TTC's five most heavily-traveled surface routes are streetcar routes.