Quote:
"The Toronto of Turning Red is specific to 2002, when [Domee] Shi was 13. [...] To engross themselves in the particularities of Y2K-era Toronto, the art team and production designer Rona Liu reproduced old TTC Metropass designs and retro streetcar models."
-- Emily Landau

Source:
Landau, Emily. "The animated life of Domee Shi." Toronto Life, March 2022. (p. 44)