Many improvements under way in northwest section of city
The job of connecting two dead-end links of the Toronto Transportation Commission's tracks is now under way. The scene, Lansdowne Avenue, at the new subway under the C.P.R. tracks, just north of Royce Avenue, shown in the illustration above at the upper left. The linking up of these two sections of track into one would seem to suggest a through street-car service up Landsdowne to St. Clair Avenue, were it not for the abrupt job on the street north Davenport Road, which occurs at the top of a steep grade, and which is shown in the photograph at the lower left. T.T.C. officials state that no through service on Lansdowne Avenue will be inaugurated until the job in the street is straightened. The scenes at the right, both upper and lower, show activity in connection with the commencement of work on the subway under the C.N.R. tracks on St. Clair Avenue, at Caledonia Road. The upper picture shows the abutments well under way; the lower, a general view of the site, with construction machinery visible, and a freight train blocking the crossing as it makes a cautious way into the city railway yards. Incidentally, though photographs of the following works are not seen, the T.T.C. is now rehabilitating its trackage on St. Clair Avenue, west from Lansdowne Avenue to the new subway, and unofficial reports claim a through street-car service along St. Clair, under the new subway, in three months. Also, piles of timber and other material by the railway tracks on St. Clair Avenue, near Keele Street, would seem to presage an early start on the second and westerly subway to be located on St. Clair Avenue, though no active work has as yet been commenced.