Toronto Subway plan, 1910 Size:18x18 It makes you wonder at

It makes you wonder at what was lost

and so various plans were put forth to build a subway system to take trams off the streets

Metro Detroit's Regional Transportation Authority in 2016 proposed to build a busway system covering the core avenues of Greater Detroit: Gratiot

author of Underground Cities

meaning that three of the cable car lines depicted here were never electrified

Toronto Subway plan, 1910 Size:18x18 It makes you wonder atThis is the very first Toronto subway proposal, dating to 1910. In that year, City Controller Horatio Hocken ran for mayor the slogan "Tubes for the People." This was not only catchy, but also a way to express his displeasure with the privately owned Toronto streetcar system. (The TTC didn't exist then, and the streetcars were privately owned and operated.) Hocken lost the election, but the proposal was popular. The city council agreed to hire a pair