StreetAdvisor - your street, your voice

I'm interested in hearing about whether anyone is particularly bothered by the screech of the streetcar as it turns at the end of our street?

I would be very interested in hearing about this too.

Me too!

What screech is it guys? Is it just one particular car or a number of cars?

AJ

In the early part of this decade, there was some discussion of cutting service to Neville Park loop. Some Beach residents were complaining about noise from the streetcars. The TTC responded that the only way to deal with the complaints was to cut back evening and overnight service to Woodbine Loop, and possibly substitute buses on the line east of Kingston Road. This was deemed unacceptible, and no action was taken. In any event, noise complaints have quietened down since.

UPDATE: Area councillor Sandra Bussin said that recently (last fall) the ttc re-instituted using water on the tracks to ease the noise of the streetcars turning in winter. The noise seems less noticable during the winter months. All in all, as it stands now, the streetcar noise does not seem to be a problem for local residents (except the ones with little else to complain about).

It is a terrible noise. Even the sound of the horn does not irritate me so much as the screech of the car does.