CANADA: Toronto’s Leslie tram maintenance depot was officially opened on May 28, with a public open day featuring a display of heritage and modern trams.
Covering 26 000 m2, the facility on the corner of Leslie Street and Lake Shore Boulevard East is equipped with a driver simulator, a ‘green’ roof and storm water management pond.
Leslie depot has been built to house Toronto Transit Commission’s new fleet of Bombardier Flexity Outlook low-floor trams, the first of which entered service in August 2014. TTC ordered 204 of these in 2009, and the vehicles are to be deployed on all 11 routes once modifications to infrastructure have been made. In 2010 TTC exercised an option for a further 182 vehicles for the four light rail lines to be built under Transit City expansion plans.
- A feature article on tram, metro and rail projects in Toronto appears in the September 2015 issue of Metro Report International, available to subscribers in our digital archive.
