 This was a result of a dispute between the city and the Toronto Railway Company which owned the Toronto and York Radial Railway, the operator of the Metropolitan radial line since 1904.In early 1916, the Toronto Railway Company extended the Yonge streetcar line north from Price Street, under a newly built bridge carrying the CPR line, to Farnham Avenue where a wye was built.This reduced the gap passengers had to walk in order to transfer between the Yonge streetcar line and the radial line from to .