504 King (TTC)
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The 504 King and 508 Lake Shore are streetcar routes operated by the Toronto Transit Commission in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The two are grouped together for accounting purposes because they share a significant portion of their route; the 508 Lake Shore also shares much of its track with the 501 Queen.
Both lines interchange mid-route with the Yonge-University-Spadina line at St. Andrew and King stations. The 504 King interchanges with the Bloor-Danforth line at its termini, Dundas West and Broadview stations. At its western terminus near Long Branch GO Station, the 508 Lake Shore interchanges with GO Transit’s Lakeshore West railway line and with Mississauga Transit.
The lines are usually operated with Toronto’s single-length CLRV streetcars. The TTC are now considering adding couplers to their streetcars in order to run the King route with trains of two or three units, as was common on busy routes until the opening of the Bloor-Danforth subway; the hope is that this would keep them from becoming stuck in traffic. [link]
See also
External links
- [504 King] (Transit Toronto)
- [508 Lake Shore] (Transit Toronto)
- [504 King map] (Toronto Transit Commission)
- [508 Lake Shore map] (Toronto Transit Commission)
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