Everything Toronto is doing 96 times or for 96 seconds to honour Queen Elizabeth II Toronto QueenElizabeth
"The 'stop and stay' is part of the City of Toronto's coordinated tribute to Her Majesty on the day of her funeral, also a National Day of Mourning in Canada," read a release from the TTC.
Subway trains will be held at station platforms while bus and streetcar drivers will park their vehicles for the 96 seconds. And finally, city ferries will also stop running for 96 seconds and blow their horns at the beginning and ending of the mourning period.The Toronto sign at Nathan Phillips Square will be dimmed and the Princes' Gates at Exhibition Place will be illuminated in blue until Sept. 19.
Flags across all city-run facilities will be flown at half-mast until Sept. 19 and will continue to be lowered to honour fallen
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