Spring 2023 - Toronto in the ’70s and the Future of Public Transit

 

I began my career at Northern Secondary School in September 1976. I was 14. At that time Toronto streetcars were rust-red with yellow-cream trim, rounded and streamlined.

    Their steel track ran along Mount Pleasant Road, looping by the school just north of Eglinton …


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Gideon Forman’s writing has appeared in the Dalhousie Review, This Magazine, and the Globe and Mail, among other publications. He has lived in Toronto since childhood and is among those who love the city.

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