514 Cherry

514 Cherry
280px Route 514 Cherry will provide additional service along King Street, to Toronto's downtown core
Overview
Type	Streetcar route
Status	Planned start June 2016
Locale	Toronto, Ontario
Termini	Dufferin Gate Loop (West) Distillery Loop (East)
Operation
Operator(s)	Toronto Transit Commission
Depot(s)	Leslie Barns, Roncesvalles, Russell
Rolling stock	CLRV, ALRV, Flexity Outlook
Technical
Line length	7.0 km (4.35 mi)
Track gauge	4 ft 10 7⁄8 in (1,495 mm) - TTC Gauge
Electrification	600V DC Overhead
Route map Legend x20px Dufferin Gate Loop  29  Liberty Street  63  504 King to Dundas West Dufferin Street  29  Fraser Avenue Joe Shuster Way Atlantic Avenue CN Weston Subdivision Sudbury Street Shaw Street  63  Strachan Avenue  63  Niagara Street Tecumseth Street Bathurst Street  145   511  Portland Street Brant Street Spadina Avenue  510  ↓ Blue Jays Way/Peter Street ↑ John Street Simcoe Street University AvenueSt. Andrew Station  142  York Street Bay Street  6  Yonge StreetKing Station  97  Victoria Street Church Street Jarvis Street  141  Sherbourne Street  75  Ontario Street Parliament Street  65  Trinity Street Sackville Street Sumach Street 504 King to Broadview Eastern Avenue Front Street Distillery Loop

The 514 Cherry is a new streetcar route planned as part of the Toronto streetcar system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Streetcars will operate through the financial district and downtown Toronto between Dufferin Gate Loop and the Cherry Street Loop. This will add to the current 504 King service along King Street, specifically to the dense residential areas in Liberty Village, Canary District and Distillery District. The city of Toronto's "King Street Visioning Study" proposes a transit and pedestrian corridor through which this route would operate. Transit congestion had become so bad that UberHop launched a rush-hour service for the corridor in December 2015.

History

In November, 2015, as part of a proposal to revise service in the areas of Cherry Street and Queens Quay East, the TTC is proposing the creation of a new 514 streetcar route that would run from the Distillery streetcar loop on Cherry Street via King Street to the Dufferin Gate Loop. It was mainly to increase capacity to conveniently serve the growing ridership along the 504 King corridor, and accessibility concerns. It was also proposed to run all day, everyday, while maintaining 504 King streetcar service.

Service Initiatives in the Preliminary 2016 TTC Operating Budget called for dedicated resources to implement a new service at an operating cost in 2016 of $0.8 million and $2.1 million annually thereafter. No additional funding was provided in the 2016 budget. The TTC proposes no change in operating costs to operate route 514 as it will reallocate existing service along the 504 King streetcar route.

Service is expected to be every 8 to 9 minutes in the rush hours and every 15 minutes in the off-peak. The line is projected to attract 51,000 new riders annually and would provide up to 15 per cent more capacity along King Street where the 504 and 514 routes would overlap. The busiest section of the 504 King route is between Bathurst Street and John Street which carries 40,000 of the route’s 65,000 daily riders. The new Cherry streetcars would allow the TTC to redeploy some of the 17 morning and nine afternoon buses it has been using to offload 504 King crowds during rush hours. The 514 service would open with older high-floor CLRV, ALRV streetcars and only one or two low-floor Flexity Outlook streetcars but would ultimately need 10 Flexity streetcars to provide the projected level of service. The introduction of Flexity streetcars on the 511 Bathurst route would be deferred in order to convert the 514 Cherry route to Flexity streetcars earlier.

On March 23, 2016, the TTC approved the new route, with service to begin in June 2016. Initially, the fleet to serve the new route will be composed of a mix of the old and new streetcars.

Route

On March 23, 2016, James Bow, writing in Transit Toronto, reprinted several maps, showing earlier proposed alignments. An alignment under consideration in 2008 had the 514's western terminus at Spadina, had it briefly turn south at Parliament, where it would turn east on Front, to Cherry. But instead of terminating at the railway embankment, the route tunneled through the embankment, crossed the Keating Channel, and turned east on Commissioner, terminating at Commissioner and Leslie.

Eastbound cars will start their trips in Dufferin Gate Loop, then proceed north along Dufferin Street to King Street, then east to Sumach Street where they will turn south to the loop on Cherry Street south of Mill Street.

Westbound cars start their trips in the Cherry Street Loop, then proceed north along Cherry and Sumach Streets to King Street where they will turn west to Dufferin Street where they will go south and loop by way of Springhurst Avenue and Fort Rouille Street to end their trips at Dufferin Gate Loop.

See also

• Cherry Street streetcar line
• 504 King

External links

• Map of proposed TTC service changes