New Years eve is a time for looking back over the old year, and amongst all the other changes that happened this year the TTC retired the last of its CLRV streetcars on Sunday, 29 December 2019. They entered service in 1979. Interestingly, the TTC still had PCCs in use at that time - Wikipedia says 196 were in service in 1982 - and the last ones weren't retired until December 1995.
I am sad to see them go and just another reminder of the Toronto of my past. I was downtown yesterday walking along Yonge St. and so much as changed. Here's a nice tribute to the old cars
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Thanks for the link! We were in Toronto a couple of weeks ago visiting friends and family. I'm always surprised by the changes. Some are good; some not so much. Completely different than when I grew up there.
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