The diversion has itself been diverted
Posted: August 15th, 2009 | Author: Dan Misener | Filed under: Toronto, corktown | Tags: corktown, Toronto | 1 Comment »
The horrible streetcar screetching at Queen and Parliament that I wrote about? For the past week, we’ve been spared. It seems that the previous diversion has been diverted by more construction on the Queen East bridge. So until August 27, the 501 will take this convoluted route:
501 Queen Streetcars will divert eastbound, from Yonge St.; east on Queen St., south on Victoria St., east on Adelaide St., south on Church St., east on King St., north on Parliament St., east on Dundas St., south on Broadview Ave., east on Queen St. to route. Streetcars will divert westbound, from Coxwell Ave.; west on Queen St., north on Broadview Ave., west on Dundas St., south on Parliament St., west on King St., north on Church St., west on Richmond St., north on Victoria St., west on Queen St. to route.
Laura and I tried to get to the subway today via the 501, and boy, was it confusing.
What? You mean streetcars can’t just easily weave their way in and out of traffic bypassing obstacles?
How odd!
I agree that it’s confusing and goofy. I take the streetcar from King/Church to the Beaches and, man, what a crazy route! It makes no sense.
Note that the crazy-ass contruction is not ROAD construction, but STREETCAR TRACK contruction. I smiled when I saw a Broadview BUS on King Street, whipping by all the delayed diverting streetcars, making its way to the Queen bridge.
Last week, a Queen BUS picked me up at Broadview and I got to the Beaches in record time – and so did the traffic around us because they didn’t have to stop at every streetcar stop. They simply passed the bus in the passing lane – which is, go figure, WHAT IT’S FOR.
Burn all streetcars.