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Originally Posted by stuckinexeter
If i had to guess, it really looks like the bus was heading west on King just before it crosses main at the Delta, where the little park is. The car in the left of photo would be parked facing ease on the south side of Main St.
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Well, the thing is that the Balmoral route ran from Balmoral and Lawrence down to Main and Balmoral, and then west along Main to the downtown core.
(Here's a map) So this bus shouldn't be on King. Also, there are streetcar tracks in the lower right of this photo. In the 1940's, there was no streetcar service on King near the Delta, only on Main.
However, you could still be right. The old Bartonville streetcar line ran along King from Main to Cochrane, and the tracks could have been left in place after the line was converted to buses in 1929. And if roadwork on Main near Balmoral resulted in rerouting the buses, running them Main-King-Balmoral would make the most sense. I just don't know.