Toronto buses and trolley buses

Toronto buses and trolley buses

Bus service in Toronto, Canada, started in 1921. There were a few independent bus operators that continued to provide inter-urban bus services:
* Hollinger Bus Lines (East York 1921-1954)
* Danforth Bus Lines (North Toronto-King City 1926-1954)
* West York Coach Lines (York 1946- 1954)
* Roseland Bus Lines (North York 1925-1954)

Today, the bus routes are the bulk of the TTC routes. The TTC also operates on contract to York Region Transit for north-south service on select routes in York Region, and Mississauga Transit for west-east service on 32B Eglinton West.

In addition, the TTC also connects to the Toronto Pearson International Airport:
* 58A, D Malton - Pearson-Lawrence West Station
* 192 Airport Rocket - Pearson-Kipling Station
* 307 Eglinton West - Pearson-Eglinton Station
* 300A Bloor Danforth - Pearson-Bloor-Yonge, Bloor-Danforth Line, and Danforth Avenue & Warden Avenue(The 58 Malton and 192 Airport Rocket operate approx. Mon-Sat 6am-1am and Sunday 8am-1am, the 307 and 300A making up the rest of the time)

Roster

Facilities

As of July 2008, over 80% of the current fleet are already accessible according to a report on the TTC website.Buses formerly and currently used by the TTC (only GMs, New Flyers, NovaBuses, and Orions currently in service):

Current

Other

Blue Night Network is an overnight bus service introduced in the 1980s and operates between 1:30am to 5:00am Monday to Saturday and 1:30am to 8:00am Sunday:
* 300 Bloor-Danforth access icon|16px
* 301 Queen
* 302 Danforth Road-McCowan access icon|16px
* 303 Don Mills access icon|16px
* 305 Eglinton East access icon|16px
* 306 Carlton
* 307 Eglinton West access icon|16px
* 308 Finch East access icon|16px
* 309 Finch West access icon|16px
* 310 Bathurst access icon|16px
* 311 Islington access icon|16px
* 312 St. Clair
* 313 Jane access icon|16px
* 316 Ossington access icon|16px
* 319 Wilson access icon|16px
* 320 Yonge access icon|16px
* 321 York Mills
* 322 Coxwell access icon|16px
* 324 Victoria Park
* 329 Dufferin access icon|16px
* 352 Lawrence West
* 353 Steeles East access icon|16px
* 354 Lawrence East access icon|16px
* 385 Sheppard East access icon|16px

access icon|16px Denotes wheelchair-accessible routes.

Facilities

Some of Toronto's current bus fleet are stored outdoors and not in garages. These buses have a heat exchanger and auxiliary heating elements, known as UWE, that allow them to be started even on the coldest winter days.

Source: "The TTC's Bus Properties" [http://transit.toronto.on.ca/bus/8300.shtml Transit Toronto]

Trolley bus lines

The TTC first experimented with trolley buses from 1922 to 1925 on an early form of the Mount Pleasant route. The experiment was ended because demand on the route was too high, and it was converted to streetcars.

Between 1947 and 1954, the TTC acquired new trolley buses and converted several streetcar routes to use them, adding a second overhead wire for two-pole operation; new trolley bus routes were also introduced. The last purchase of trolley buses was in 1963, and subsequent route changes were only to redeploy the existing fleet. Also around 1970, the entire trolley bus fleet was rebuilt with new bodies. When these reached the end of their working lives in the 1990s, they were temporarily augmented by trolley buses leased from Edmonton. But the TTC concluded that trolley buses were too inflexible operationally, and that it was not cost-effective to maintain the fleet of life-expired vehicles, so the TTC decided to "temporarily" store them. Between 1991 and 1993, all routes were converted to buses, and the overhead wires were taken down in 1996.

New trolley buses were to have been ordered in 1987, however, this order was never tendered. It was expected that 112 new trolley buses would have been ordered. At this time the TTC was experimenting with compressed natural gas buses, and they hoped that these would form a more environmentally friendly replacement for the trolley buses than standard diesel buses; but the CNG buses proved unsatisfactory and were soon withdrawn. It has been speculated that the cancellation of the trolley bus purchase was closely linked to the promotion of natural gas buses.

Because of the piecemeal way that TTC routes were converted to trolley buses, they never formed a coherent or even a connected network. In 1991, there was one cluster of 6 routes centred in the area west and northwest of downtown, and a separate group of 3 routes in the North Toronto neighbourhood. Each area used a different bus garage, and vehicles could be transferred between the two areas only by towing. Further, the endpoints of each route were generally unchanged from when it had first been operated by trolley buses, due to the cost of erecting overhead; some of the routes were extended soon after the trolleybuses were removed from them.

Prior to the cancellation of trolley bus service, the TTC had 99 Western Flyers and 40 leased GM-BBC coaches from Edmonton. The last remaining trolley bus in Toronto was abandoned in a private lot near Leslie Street and York Mills Road. It has since been removed and scrapped. One TTC Flyer trolley bus is preserved at the Halton County Radial Railway museum in Milton, Ontario, and another is preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Routes

These routes were formerly served by trolley buses. All are now served by buses; in some cases the routes have been significantly altered, and some route names and numbers have been changed as shown in parentheses. The route numbers in the 300 series were used during Blue Night Network hours.
* 4 Annette (now 26 Dupont)
* 6 Bay
* 40 Junction
* 47/315 Lansdowne (now only 47)
* 61 Nortown / Nortown West (now Avenue Road North)
* 63/316 Ossington
* 74 Mount Pleasant
* 89 Weston Road / Weston
* 97 Yonge
* 103 Nortown East (now Mount Pleasant North)

Trolley vehicle types

Before the end of trolley services, the TTC had a fleet of 40 trolley buses.

Facilities

Trolleybus operated out of three garages:

Source: "The Garage" [http://transit.toronto.on.ca/trolleybus/9300.shtml Transit Toronto]

Loops

Most TTC bus routes terminate at stations or loop around side streets at the other end. Here are some of the loops still used:
* Albion Road west of Humberline Drive
* Avenue Road and Bombay Avenue
* Avenue Road and Roe Avenue - no longer used for scheduled service due to route extension
* Bayview Avenue and Steeles Avenue East: northwest corner
* Brimley Road and Steeles Avenue East - northeast corner
* Burnhamthorpe Road east of Mill Road
* Commissioner Street west of Leslie Street
* Coxwell Avenue and Queen Street East (Woodbine Beach Park)
* Doncliffe Drive and Mount Pleasant Road
* Dufferin Street and Finch Avenue West
* Eglinton Avenue West and Pearen Avenue - sold and redeveloped
* Eglinton Avenue West west of Renforth Drive
* Esna Park Drive and Steeles Avenue East
* Finch Avenue East east of Don Mills Road (Seneca College's Newnham Campus)
* Glen Echo Loop (Glen Echo Road and Yonge Street) - redeveloped
* Humber Loop (on The Queensway)
* Humberwood Blvd. (Located at Indian Line park)
* Keele Street and Weston: trolley bus
* Keele Street and McNaughton Road
* Kipling Avenue and Steeles Avenue West: west of Kipling next to Esso station on northwest side
* Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive and Colonel Samuel Smith Park Waterfront - inside Humber College Lakeshore Campus at Colonel Samuel Smith Park
* Jane Loop (Jane Street and Bloor Street West) - now Jane Subway station
* Lansing (Sheppard) Loop (Sheppard Avenue and Yonge Street)
* Lake Shore Boulevard and Northern Dancer Boulevard (Ashbridges Bay Park, served by 92 Woodbine South buses; opened January 6, 2005)
* Lawrence Avenue East east of East Avenue
* Lawrence Avenue East east of Starspray Blvd
* Long Branch Loop (Browns Line and Lake Shore Blvd W)
* Luttrell Loop (Luttrell Avenue and Danforth Avenue east of Dawes Road) - redeveloped
* Markham Road and Major Mackenzie Drive
* McCowan Road and Steeles Avenue East - northeast corner, across of Petro Canada station
* McNicoll Avenue east of Kennedy Road - new loop to replace former loop west of Kennedy Road
* Middlefield Road and Steeles Avenue East - northeast corner
* Morningside Avenue and Old Finch Avenue
* Neilson Road and Ellesmere Road - east of Rouge Valley Centenary Health Centre
* Newton Drive and Bayview Avenue - replaced by Bayview-Steeles loop
* Oak Street and Weston Road - redeveloped
* Otter Loop (on Avenue Road south of Lawrence) - no longer TTC property
* Rathburn Road and Mill Road (Centennial Park)
* Steeles Avenue West west of Martin Grove Road
* Steeles Avenue West west of Islington Avenue
* Steeles Avenue East between Yonge Street and Dumont Avenue
* St Clair Avenue West and Lansdowne Avenue
* St Clair Avenue West and Old Weston Road - disconnected from streetcar system, still sees buses
* Rogers Road and Weston Road (Avon Loop)
* Rouge Hill GO Station
* Victoria Park Avenue north of Steeles Avenue East, on west side of the Liberty Centre building
* Warden Avenue and Steeles Avenue East: northwest side next to Warden Centre
* Weston Road and Major Mackenzie Drive
* Weston Road and Rogers Road (Avon Loop)
* Yonge Street and Steeles Avenue East: east of Yonge, south side of Steeles
* York University Common

A list of former bus loops:

* southwest corner at Midland Avenue and Steeles Avenue East - now Tim Hortons

helters

Prior to the 1980s, the bus shelters on TTC routes were installed and maintained by the TTC and the city. A number of shelters are installed by CBS Outdoor (formerly Mediacom and TDI) and formerly by Transad (now Transad Outdoor Media). In addition, CBS Outdoor is responsible for all other forms of advertising on the TTC.

Bike rack

In the summer of 2005, the TTC began a pilot project to test bicycle racks on 5 select routes as a way to boost ridership and to be more environmentally friendly. The folding racks are installed on the front of the bus and can hold 2 bikes. In the event that both slots at the front of the bus are full, bicycles are allowed to be put inside buses after rush hour periods only.

Bike racks were tested at Wilson garage during 2005 and 2006 using the Orion V, VI and later VII bus models. TTC staff concluded that the pilot project was not a success and that it should be discontinued, but the Commission disagreed, and voted to not only continue it, but to direct that bike racks will be installed on all new buses starting in 2007. The Commission has since directed staff to look into the cost of retrofitting the entire bus fleet with bike racks. The original bike rack model will not be used on newer buses due to it blocking the high beams on the Orion VII model buses, and a different model from the same manufacturer will be used starting on 2007 deliveries. None of this is included in the five-year capital budget.The original routes were:
* 7 Bathurst (excludes 7A Branch)
* 14 Glencairn
* 29 Dufferin
* 38 Highland Creek
* 39 Finch East
* 47 Lansdowne
* 53 Steeles East
* 61 Avenue Road North
* 63 Ossington
* 85 Sheppard East
* 98 Willowdale-Senlac
* 105 Dufferin North
* 109 Ranee
* 125 Drewry
* 129 McCowan North
* 133 Neilson
* 134 Progress
* 161 Rogers Rd
* 193 Exhibition Rocket
* 310 Bathurst
* 316 Ossington
* 329 Dufferin
* 353 Steeles East
* 385 Sheppard East The TTC's latest order of hybrid buses came factory-equipped with these racks, and all 200 of Wilson's accessible Orion VIIs are equipped or soon to be equipped with these racks in addition to the remaining Orion V's. (The Orion VIs were scrapped over the last year.) The project is supported by the City of Toronto.

For more information, see: [http://www.toronto.ca/ttc/bike_racks.htm TTC Bike Racks]

Biobus program

TTC experimented with bio-diesel fuel as part of the drive for cleaner vehicles. It was initially tested at Queensway garage, and because of its success, all buses in the TTC have been using bio-diesel since June 2006.

The TTC's fleet of CNG Orion V were converted to diesel operation and burn the same bio-diesel mixture as the rest of the fleet; no alternative fuel buses remain on the fleet. Recent hybrid-diesel-electric Orion VII delivered to the fleet burn bio-diesel as well.

ee also

*Toronto Transit Commission
*Toronto subway and RT
*Toronto streetcar system

External links

* [http://transit.toronto.on.ca/trolleybus/index.shtml Transit Toronto - Trolley Buses]
* [http://transit.toronto.on.ca/bus/index.shtml Transit Toronto Buses]
* [http://www.geocities.com/public_transportation/independentbuslines.html Independent Bus Lines]
* [http://busdrawings.com/index_ttc.htm Drawings of TTC vehicles]
* [http://transit.toronto.on.ca/bus/8003.shtml and some more] by Peter McLaughlin
* [http://www.trolleybuses.net/tor/tor.htm Tom's North American Trolley Buses - Toronto page]


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