Gunns Loop
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| name = Gunns Loop
| style = Toronto Transit Commission
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| address = St. Clair Avenue West
Toronto, Ontario
| country = Canada
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| structure = Small service building for staff washroom
| platform = 2 - separate area for buses and streetcars
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| tracks = 1
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| opened = {{Start date|1981|07|27|df=y}}
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| owned = Toronto Transit Commission
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| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Toronto Transit Commission|line=512|right1=Keele Street|right2=Old Stock Yards|note-right2=Eastbound only}}
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Gunns Loop is a station and turning loop at the western terminus of the 512 St. Clair streetcar line of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). It is located at the northwest corner of St. Clair Avenue West and Gunns Road, a block west of Keele Street, in Toronto.
History
File:A PCC streetcar in Toronto in 1969 -a.jpg
Prior to construction of the dedicated right-of-way, the terminus of the 512 St. Clair route had been at the Keele Loop, just north of St. Clair Avenue where Weston Road merges with Keele Street.{{cite web |url=http://transit.toronto.on.ca/streetcar/4158.shtml |title=A History of the Rogers/Weston Streetcar Loops |author=James Bow |publisher= Transit Toronto |quote=Service on St. Clair Avenue continued to push west, crossing the Newmarket and Weston Subs via underpasses in the mid 1920s and terminating at Keele Loop, located just off of Keele Street just north of St. Clair Avenue. |access-date=July 1, 2014}}
The loop is named for nearby Gunns Road, which in turn is named after Gunns Limited, a West Toronto abattoir founded by businessman Donald Gunn of Beaverton, Ontario.
The old loop was closed and service began to the new loop in 1981.{{cite web |url=http://transit.toronto.on.ca/streetcar/4110.shtml |title=St. Clair Carries On Alone |author=James Bow |publisher=Transit Toronto |quote=On Monday, July 27, 1981, the old Keele Loop was closed, and service began on an additional 1100 feet of double track laid down further west to the new loop on Maybank (now called Gunns) Avenue. |access-date=July 1, 2014}} Signs on westbound 512 St. Clair streetcars still indicate Keele as the destination, when they are actually terminating at Gunns.{{cite web |url=http://westtoronto.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/transformation-at-the-end-of-the-line-placemaking-at-gunns-loop/ |title=Transformation at the End of the Line: Placemaking at Gunns Loop |author= A. Rozumek |date=25 March 2012 |work=West Toronto |quote=Through functional and beautiful design, Gunns Loop now has a strong sense of place appropriate for the western terminus of a line in Toronto’s iconic streetcar network. |access-date=July 1, 2014}}
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Services
A small building provides washroom facilities for TTC operators. There is a platform and upgraded new design shelter{{cite web |url=http://www.ttc.ca/About_the_TTC/Commission_reports_and_information/Commission_meetings/2010/Jan_20_2010/Reports/Transit_City_Impleme.pdf |title=Transit City Implementation – The St. Clair Project Experience |publisher=Toronto Transit Commission |quote=Enhanced streetscape and urban design features including streetcar shelters, platforms, and public art. |access-date=September 1, 2014}} for people waiting for streetcars, while bus passengers have a regular bus shelter.
As well as being the terminus for the 512 St. Clair streetcar, the loop is also served by the 189 Stockyards bus route which provides service farther west along St. Clair Avenue to Scarlett Road and south on Keele Street to Keele and High Park subway stations.
References
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{{cite news
| url = http://www.ttc.ca/Routes/512/Map.jsp
| title = TTC route 512 St. Clair
| work = Toronto Transit Commission
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190507124955/http://www.ttc.ca/Routes/512/Map.jsp
| archive-date= May 7, 2019
| access-date = May 11, 2020
| url-status = live
}}
{{cite news
| url = http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/stockyards/stock.htm
| title = The Stockyard Story
| work = Trainweb.org
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191019120202/http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/stockyards/stock.htm
| archive-date= October 19, 2019
| access-date = May 11, 2020
| url-status = live
}}
{{cite news
| url = http://www.ttc.ca/Routes/189/RouteDescription.jsp?tabName=route
| title = 189 Stockyards
| work = Toronto Transit Commission
| access-date = May 10, 2020
}}
}}
External links
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- [https://sites.google.com/site/512tojane/home Extend the 512 Streetcar to Jane Street ]
- {{cite web |url=http://francesnunziata.com/2013/10/08/new-addition-to-gunns-loop/ |title=New Addition to Gunn's Loop |date=8 October 2013 |publisher=Councillor Frances Nunziata |quote=Today the TTC completed the installation of a new sign at Gunn’s Loop identifying the St. Clair West Village Area. This sign was requested back when the loop was under construction and I am pleased to see that it has finally been installed. }}
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