21 May 2015, The Tablet

End of an era


 
You might call it the secularisation of transport. After more than a century trams in Toronto, Canada, will no longer make special stops at churches on a Sunday. A spokesman for the city’s Transit Commission said: “We don’t have similar stops for temples or mosques or other places of worship in the city.” He added: “We are a secular society and times have changed.”Sunday stops were approved by the city in 1897 but only fully implemented in the 1930s. St Nicho
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