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The Toronto Transit Commission operated a separate Spadina streetcar line on Spadina Avenue, from 1923 to 1948. Spadina Avenue is a major north–south road in downtown Toronto.
In the 1920s, the newly formed TTC (then the Toronto Transportation Commission) combined, amalgamated and rationalized the tracks, routes, and rolling stock of several privately held streetcar companies. The Toronto Railway Company had operated streetcars on Spadina Avenue as part of the Belt Line.
The Belt Line had run streetcars in both directions, along Spadina, King Street, Sherbourne and Bloor Street. The first streetcars to run exclusively on Spadina ran from Fleet Street (today's Lake Shore Boulevard), to Bloor Street, starting on July 1, 1923. The TTC needed to run double-ended Peter Witt Streetcars, as there were no loops to enable vehicles to turn around.
According to Toronto Sun columnist Mike Filey, the TTC agreed to abandon the Spadina line due to post-war electricity shortages.