A first-year Waterloo student has developed a program that tracks the real-time speed of every streetcar line in Toronto. Called the TTCLeaderboard, the app is set up like keeping score of a race, ranking the lines from fastest to slowest.
According to the leaderboard, some of Toronto's quickest streetcars tend to be 504 King, 507 Long Branch, and 510 Spadina.
The creator of the app, computer science undergraduate student Luka Jovanovic, has always had a passion for urban planning: his dorm is covered with maps, including Tokyo’s transit system. In grade 11, his interactive map of Toronto’s streetcar system from the 1940s went viral, and he designed and presented his own bus route to the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). After coming across the TTC’s public data portal, which showcased their vehicle’s live navigation, he embarked on a new side project.
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