502 Downtowner

502 Downtowner
502 Downtowner car on Kingston Road, travelling westbound at Main Street
Overview
Type	Streetcar Route
Locale	Toronto, Ontario
Termini	Bingham Loop (East) McCaul Loop (West)
Stations	Queen Osgoode
Operation
Operator(s)	Toronto Transit Commission
Depot(s)	Russell [1]
Rolling stock	CLRV
Technical
Line length	9.38 km (5.83 mi) [1]
Track gauge	4 ft 10 ^7⁄8 in (1,495 mm) - TTC Gauge
Electrification	600 VDC Overhead
Route number	502
Route map Legend Legend Transfer stop Sunday-only stop Carhouse Route: Connection  00  Terminus  00  McCaul Loop Stephanie Street 501 to Long Branch ↓ Queen Street West/McCaul Street ↑  501  Simcoe Street University Avenue (Osgoode Station)  142  York Street Bay Street  6   6A  Yonge Street (Queen Station)  97B  Victoria Street (Saint Michael's Hospital) Church Street Jarvis Street Sherbourne Street  75  Ontario Street Parliament Street  65  ↓ Power Street/Trefann Street ↑ Sackville Street Sumach Street King Street East503 & 504 to downtown River Street  503   504  River Street  501   502  CN Kingston sub. CP Bala sub. Don River Don Valley Parkway Carroll Street Broadview Avenue  504  ↓ Saulter Street/Boulton Avenue ↑ CN Lakeshore sub. Empire Avenue ↓ Booth Avenue Logan Avenue Carlaw Avenue  72  Pape Avenue  72A  ↓ Caroline Avenue/Brooklyn Avenue ↑ Jones Avenue  83  Leslie Street ↓ Laing Street/Alton Avenue ↑ Greenwood Avenue  31  Russell Carhouse Connaught Avenue ↓ Woodward Avenue/Kent Road ↑ Coxwell Avenue  22  ↓ Kingston Road/Queen Street East↑  22B   501  Woodbine Loop 501 to Neville ↓ Dixon Avenue/Dundas Street East ↑ Columbine Avenue Rainsford Road Woodbine Avenue  92  Elmer Avenue ↓ Waverly Road/Brookside Drive ↑ Lee Avenue Main Street (Southwood Drive)  64  Walter Street Glen Manor Drive St. John Church Malvern Avenue Beech Avenue Scarborough Road Bingham Avenue Victoria Park Avenue Bingham Loop  12   22A   503

The 502 Downtowner is a streetcar line operated by the Toronto Transit Commission in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It runs from the Bingham Loop at Victoria Park Avenue and Kingston Road in the Beaches neighbourhood to McCaul Loop in downtown Toronto.

Route

It runs southwest on Kingston Road then turns west along Queen Street. It goes west along Queen to McCaul Street where there is a turning loop just north of Queen Street West. The route is grouped together with the 503 Kingston Road for accounting purposes, as they share a large amount of the same track.^[2]

The 502 Downtowner runs during the day from Monday to Friday only, with a service every 12 minutes during rush hour and every 10 minutes at other times during the day.

Due to a shortage of streetcars caused by late delivery of the new wheelchair accessible Flexity Outlook streetcars, as of October 2016, the route has been operated using supplementary buses rather than streetcars. ^[3]

Buses replaced streetcars on the route, while the Bingham Loop was being rebuilt in 2010.

Sites along the line

From east to west:

• The Beaches
• Leslieville
• Riverdale
• Don River
• Moss Park
• Moss Park Armoury
• Queen Street subway station
• Eaton Centre
• Old City Hall courts
• Toronto City Hall
• Nathan Phillips Square
• Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres
• Massey Hall
• Grange Park
• Ontario College of Art & Design
• The Grange
• Art Gallery of Ontario

References

1. Toronto Transit Commission (September 18, 2009). "TTC Service Summary" (PDF).
2. "TTC Description of 502 Downtowner". Toronto Transit Commission. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
3. 502 Downtowner - Temporary bus operation

External links

• Media related to 502 Downtowner at Wikimedia Commons
• TTC Official site
• 502 - Downtowner (Transit Toronto)
• 502 Downtowner map