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
21 May 2015, The Tablet
End of an era
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