Waterfront West LRT

Waterfront West LRT
Overview
StatusCancelled in 2010, but revived in 2017 by the Waterfront Transit Reset study
OwnerWaterfront Transit Reset
LocaleToronto, Ontario
Termini
Service
TypeStreetcar
SystemToronto streetcar system
Operator(s)Toronto Transit Commission
Route map

Union
Stops to be
determined
Spadina
 510 
Bathurst
 511 
 509 
Fleet
Strachan
Exhibition
Centennial Park
Dufferin Gate Loop
 504 
Alignment to
be determined
 501 
Roncesvalles
Glendale
Parkside
Colborne Lodge
Ellis
Windermere
South Kingsway
Humber Loop
 
LRT stops to
be determined
 
Long Branch

The Waterfront West LRT (WWLRT) is a proposed streetcar line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The WWLRT is currently part of a municipal project called the Waterfront Transit Reset which also includes the Waterfront East LRT. The WWLRT was initially proposed as part of the Transit City plan to expand transit services offered by the Toronto Transit Commission that was announced March 16, 2007. The new line was to use existing parts of the Toronto streetcar system, extending from Union station to Long Branch Loop via Exhibition Place.

The originally proposed WWLRT was abandoned when Mayor of Toronto Rob Ford cancelled the entire Transit City project on December 1, 2010. However, an October 2015 city report recommended that the project be reconsidered in the context of other Waterfront transit projects, a mandate which resulted in the Waterfront Transit Reset study. In November 2017, the study produced a series of recommendations which, if they were all implemented, would result in a Waterfront West line quite similar to the Transit City proposal.

In April 2019, the City of Toronto decided to proceed to procurement and construction on the recommendation designated the "Exhibition Place–Dufferin Gate Loop streetcar connection", describing it as "a priority segment of the Waterfront Transit Network Plan".