504 King

504 King
Two 504 King cars push east of Yonge during the morning rush hour
Overview
Type	Streetcar Route
Locale	Toronto, Ontario
Termini	Broadview Station (East) Dundas West Station (West)
Stations	■ Broadview, ■ King, ■ St. Andrew, ■ Dundas West
Daily ridership	53,100
Operation
Operator(s)	Toronto Transit Commission
Depot(s)	Russell, Roncesvalles
Rolling stock	CLRV, ALRV (Rush Hour)
Technical
Line length	13.97 km (8.68 mi)
Track gauge	4 ft 10 7⁄8 (1,495 mm) - TTC Gauge
Electrification	600 VDC Overhead
Route map  00  Route connection  00  Route terminus Route transfer Sunday-only stop Carhouse Bloor–Danforth to Kennedy Stn. Dundas West Stn.  40   168   505  Bloor St.  505  Dundas St. 505 to Broadview Stn. ↓ Roncesvalles Av. ¦ Dundas St. W. ↑ Boustead Av.  505  Hewitt Av. Howard Park506 to High Park & Main Stn.  506  Constance St. ↓ Geoffrey St./Grenadier Rd. ↑ St. Vincent de Paul RC Church ↑ ↓ High Park Bd./Fermanagh Av. ↑ Fern Av. Garden Av. Galley Av. Marion St. Grafton Av. Roncesvalles Carhouse Queen St. W.501 & 508 to Long Branch downtown  501   508  Wilson Park Rd. Jameson Av. Dunn Av. Cowan Av. Spencer Av. Dufferin St.  29  Fraser Av. Joe Shuster Way Atlantic Av. CN Weston sub. & CP MacTier sub. Sudbury St. Shaw St.  63  Strachan Av.  63  Niagara St. Tecumseth St. Bathurst St.511 to Exhibition & Bathurst Stn.  145   511  Portland St. Brant St. Spadina Av.510 to Union Stn. & Spadina Stn.  510  ↓ Blue Jays Way/Peter St. ↑ John St. Simcoe St. University Av.St. Andrew Stn.  1   142  York St. Bay St.  6   6A  Yonge St.King Stn.  1   97B  Victoria St. Church St. Jarvis St.  141  Sherbourne St.  75  Ontario St. Parliament St.  65  Trinity St. Sackville St. Sumach St. 501 & 502 to downtown ↖ King St. E./Queen St. E. ↕ River St.  501   502  CN Kingston sub. CP Bala sub. Don River Don Valley Parkway Carroll St. ↓ Broadview Av./Queen St. E. ↑  501   502  501 & 502 to Neville/Bingham Dundas St.505 to Dundas West Stn.  505  Mt. Stephen St. Gerrard St.506 to Main Stn. & High Park  506  St. John's Presbyterian Church Langley Av. Withrow Av. Bain Av. Millbrook Cr. Wolfrey Av. Danforth Av. Erindale Av. & Broadview Av. Broadview Stn.  8   62   87   100   505  Bloor–Danforth to Kipling Stn.

A 504 King car as it approaches the Queen Street Viaduct

The 504 King is a streetcar route operated by the Toronto Transit Commission in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is grouped together with the 508 Lake Shore for accounting purposes. In 2005-2006, these routes carried 47,900 passengers on an average weekday (of which the vast majority were carried by 504 King), making 504 King the busiest TTC streetcar route in terms of number of passengers.

The route provide primary service along King Street in Toronto's downtown core. 504 cars provide additional service along Roncesvalles Avenue and Broadview Avenue. Both lines interchange mid-route with the Yonge-University-Spadina line at St. Andrew and King stations. The 504 King interchanges with the Bloor-Danforth line at its termini, Dundas West and Broadview stations, which the route shares with 505 Dundas streetcars.

The lines are usually operated with Toronto's single-length CLRV streetcars. In 2006 the TTC briefly considered adding couplers to its streetcars in order to run the King route with trains of two or three units, as was common on busy routes until the opening of the Bloor-Danforth subway; the hope was that this would keep them from bunching and becoming stuck in traffic. The plan was rejected.

During rush hour periods, 504 King is operated by ALRVs in addition to the regular CLRVs.

Proposed right-of-way

On March 22, 2007, the Toronto Transit Commission proposed a pilot project for right-of-way dedicated lanes along the 504 King Streetcar route similar to the 510 Spadina and 512 St. Clair routes. The TTC proposed that the pilot project take place in the summer of 2007. The proposal suggested there would only be a single lane available to cabs, cars and deliveries in that designated area in each direction. Unlike Spadina and St. Clair, the street would be closed entirely to through traffic and streetcars would run at ground level, not in a raised median. The TTC was trying to implement a trial transit mall on King from Yonge to University, with hopes of eventually closing King to cars from Dufferin to Parliament. It was also hoped that traffic on King would be partially alleviated by the proposed Waterfront West LRT and the planned network of streetcar routes for the Port Lands. The pilot project proposed for 2007 has not been implemented and the project has not been mentioned since the announcement of the Transit City initiative.

Sites along the line (from east to west)

• George Brown College
• St. Lawrence Hall
• Commerce Court
• Scotia Plaza
• Toronto-Dominion Centre
• First Canadian Place
• Royal Alexandra Theatre
• Roy Thomson Hall
• Princess of Wales Theatre

Cherry Street extension

The first element of the Port Lands streetcar right-of-way network will be a short stretch of track on the east side of Cherry Street from King Street south to the north side of the railroad corridor. This initial segment would only add three stops to the TTC network, but will later be expanded to Queen's Quay. Once constructed, every third or fourth eastbound 504 King streetcar will be turned down Cherry Street instead of going to Broadview Station. The re-construction of Cherry Street will start in 2011 and be completed by 2013.

See also

• 503 Kingston Road
• 508 Lake Shore
• Toronto streetcar system
• Toronto Transit Commission

External links

• Toronto Transit Commission official site
• 504 King (Transit Toronto)
• 504 King map