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Spotted: A Streetcar Gets Towed
But don't worry: this is just part of a training exercise for the TTC's next-generation streetcars.
SPOTTED BY: Ferdinand Galitane (YouTube user ttcgeek)
WHERE: Bathurst Street & Dundas Street
WHEN: Thursday, December 12, 2013, 2:45 am
WHAT: By night, the TTC’s next-generation streetcars continue to be put through their paces. Here, we have footage of what Brad Ross, the TTC’s head of communications, indicates is part of the “ongoing testing regimen” for the new vehicles. When in the future one of the new streetcars runs into trouble, it will usually be connected to another streetcar and pulled away—but if, for some reason, a streetcar tow isn’t an option, the TTC will look to a tow truck to perform the service. So what we see here is a practice run for a tow-truck/streetcar rescue.
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This post originally gave the intersection as Bathurst and College streets, rather than Bathurst and Dundas streets.