The Toronto Star's Peter Goffin reports on the online response to the TTC's plan to close down the Queen streetcar line this summer.

The TTC’s announcement that it will replace streetcars with buses during repairs to Queen St. this summer has jumpstarted conversation on social media ( Read more... )

Global News' David Shum describes how, this summer, the Queen streetcar line will be replaced by buses.

For the first time in TTC history, transit riders will have to make due with buses along the entire 501 Queen streetcar route this summer ( Read more... )

The Globe and Mail's Brad Wheeler reports from Queen and Broadview, where the closure of hamburger restaurant Dangerous Dan's signals the impending transformation of this Riverdale intersection.

The news this week that Dangerous Dan’s will close at the end of May hit Riversiders like a ton of ground beef. But while the venerable burger joint’s ( Read more... )

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Back in May 2014, I noted that the Broadview Hotel at Queen and Broadview was set for a sweeping renovation. The aim is to repeat in east-end Toronto something that happened with the Drake and Gladstone in west-end Toronto, to make a down-at-the-hells hotel (this one, known for strip joint Jilly's) into a high-end boutique hotel ( Read more... )

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The Toronto Star's Verity Stevenson described earlier this month promises to increase service on the Queen Street streetcar line. Here's to hoping these get fulfilled.

If you take the Queen streetcar often, your experience may be similar to Effy Lustgarten’s ( Read more... )