Toronto Subway expansion plan, 1985 Size:18x24 If this sounds too good

If this sounds too good to be true

This conversion is the "Step Two" depicted here

But it was not to last: the streetcar network had suffered from poor maintenance

and the system went into a long

The system had begun to shut down even before the Great Depression

Toronto Subway expansion plan, 1985 Size:18x24 If this sounds too goodToronto's subway system expansion stalled in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Money was short, the densest parts of the Greater Toronto Area were adequately served by the Yonge and Bloor subways, and the Toronto Transit Commission was experimenting with maglev lines to satisfy the rapid transit needs of the suburbs. (The result of the ultimately unsuccessful maglev was the Scarborough RT, now known as Line 3.) After maglev petered out, the Progressive