Houston Metro, originally uploaded by j-a-x.
501 Queen has been listed as one of the top 10 trolley rides in the world. It's an incredibly long route starting from the Beaches in the east end crossing all of Queen St, onto a ROW on the Queensway and then south onto Lakeshore all the way to Long Branch GO Station.
It's also been targeted for improvement. The TTC is looking at using the Queensway ROW and additional Lakeshore ROW for the Transit City Waterfront West LRT line (with I assume passing tracks to allow the LRTs to bypass the local 501, or possibly 507, service). I've always been curious about how they would help Queen St. It's not as wide as Spadina, and therefore would not allow for a ROW plus two lanes of traffic in each direction.
Houston, which I would take as a very transit unfriendly city with terrible drivers (see: Metro's Greatest Hits) seems to have done just this.
Earlier, in Main Street Houston I posted picture of how nice the LRT has actually been for the street environment. If there's any street in Toronto that deserves this, it's Queen. I wish it was something the TTC would look into.
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