Luttrell Loop
43°41′22″N 79°17′39″W / 43.68944°N 79.29417°W
The Toronto Transit Commission's Luttrell Loop was the eastern terminus of the Bloor streetcar line. The loop was closed in 1968 after completion of an extension of the Bloor–Danforth subway line.[1]
In 1913, the
The Luttrell Loop had two arrangements. Until 1955, the loop crossed the south-west corner of Danforth and Luttrell avenues in a counter-clockwise direction. The loop was next door to the garage of Danforth Bus Lines, absorbed by the TTC in 1954. In 1955, a new larger loop opened turning south on Kelvin Avenue, east on a private right-of way (behind the former Danforth Bus Lines garage) where a platform and waiting rooms were available, then north on Luttrell Avenue, and west on Danforth Avenue. Also, in 1955, the Main Loop was built on Main Street just north of Danforth Avenue to eliminate the congestion of having Carlton streetcars looping at the Luttrell Loop.[2][3] Like the Jane Loop at the other end of the Bloor line, several local and intercity bus routes also terminated at the loop, allowing commuters to transfer between routes.
Luttrell Avenue, an otherwise obscure, tiny dead-end street, was (at the time the loop was in use) the eastern limit of the City of Toronto as it intersected with Danforth Avenue. The borders of the borough of East York dipped down south of the Danforth at this point to encompass the Ford Motor plant (later Shoppers World Danforth), which lay directly to the east of Luttrell.
References
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J. William Hood (1986). The Toronto Civic Railways. Upper Canada Railway Society. pp. 31–36. ISBN 0-921429-07-X.
- ^ R. McMann (May 1, 1966). "PCC 4664 pulls out of Luttrell loop". Transit Toronto. Retrieved 2017-02-19.
TTC ex-Cleveland all-electric PCC 4664 pulls out of Luttrell loop on its way back to Woodbine station as part of the DANFORTH shuttle on May 1, 1966. Photograph by R. McMann, from the John Knight collection.
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John F. Bromley and Jack May (1973). 50 Years of Progressive Transit. Electric Railroaders' Association. p. 89. ISBN 9781550024487.