Toronto, meet your new streetcars

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The TTC has begun on-street testing of its new streetcar fleet, having successfully run the first test vehicle from the TTC’s Bathurst St. facility (Hillcrest) to Bathurst Station and back in the early hours of March 14, 2013.

Since the first test streetcar arrived in Toronto in late 2012, TTC and Bombardier engineers and staff have conducted static tests on functions such as air conditioning, heating, lighting, CCTV cameras, stop announcements, ergonomics and many other components of the vehicle. Testing locations and times will broaden and occur across the city over the next several months.

The next phase of testing moves to Toronto streets and includes power, braking, coupling/towing, clearance, cameras, doors and much more before the streetcar can be commissioned for service, scheduled for the first quarter of 2014.

Plans call for the new streetcar to serve the 510 Spadina line first. As production vehicles arrive and are commissioned by the TTC, more streetcar routes will begin to be serviced by the new car. Full deployment across the streetcar network is expected by 2018. TTC staff will update the TTC Board and public later this spring with its deployment plan.