Toronto Transit Commission bus garages

There are eight garages for storage and maintenance of buses of the Toronto Transit Commission in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Current

Arrow

Arrow Road Garage operates a number of routes throughout North York, Etobicoke, Vaughan, and small portions of Old Toronto, and services mainly Orion VII Diesels, and Orion VII NG hybrids, and the new Novabus LFS.

Address: 700 Arrow Road
Opened: 1988
Facility: Bus garage

Birchmount

Birchmount Garage is one of three bus facilities in Scarborough and is located at Birchmount & Danforth Roads. The garage operates many routes in East York, eastern portion of Toronto such as East Danforth, Markham, and Scarborough neighborhoods of Birch Cliff, Bendale, Clairlea, Cliffside and Kennedy Park). It services Orion VIIs and Orion VII NGs.

Address: 400 Danforth Road
Opened: 1956
Facilities: A 89,500 square feet (8,310 m²) garage, 2 wash racks, 2 fueling stations, 4 inspection pit stations, 10 40-foot (12.192 m) hoists, and 1 UWE heating system for storage outdoors.

Eglinton

Eglinton Bus Garage

The Eglinton Bus Garage^[1] is located at Comstock Rd & Lebovic Rd. The current garage opened in 2002, replacing the old Eglinton Garage located at Yonge and Eglinton (now used as a permanent bus terminal for Eglinton Station) and the Danforth Garage. The garage services the TTC's Orion VIIs.

Address: 38 Comstock Road
Opened: 2002
Facility: Bus garage

Lakeshore

Wheel-Trans vehicles at Lakeshore

Lakeshore Garage supports the TTC Wheel-Trans fleet of ELF, Friendly Buses and Orion II Community buses. Lakeshore opened in 1980 as the main garage for Gray Coach Lines, which moved out in 1991 following the sale of Gray Coach Lines to Stagecoach Holdings. From 1991 onwards the facility has been occupied by Wheel-Trans.

Address: 580 Commissioners Street
Opened: 1980
Facility: bus garage

Malvern

Malvern Complex in Scarborough

Malvern Garage is a bus garage servicing vehicles in the Malvern Division. The garage operates some routes in north and eastern Scarborough and Markham such as Agincourt, L'Amoreaux, Malvern, Milliken, Ontario and the east half of North York (Bayview Woods – Steeles and Newtonbrook). It services Orion VII Hybrids, and Orion VII NG hybrids, and the new Novabus LFS Artics. During peak periods approximately 230 buses from the garage are in revenue service.^[2]

Address: 5050 Sheppard Avenue East
Opened: 1983
Facility: bus garage

Mount Dennis

Buses on lifts at Mt Dennis Garage

Mount Dennis Garage, the newest of the TTC's garages, opened on 23 November 2008 (after sitting empty for a year). The facility covers routes for west and central Toronto. It services Orion VII Hybrids, and Orion VII NG hybrids, and Novabus LFS Artics. During peak periods approximately 230 buses from the garage are in revenue service.^[2]

Address: 121 Industry Street
Opened: 2008
Facility: bus garage and maintenance facility

Queensway

Queensway Garage is the major facility for Etobicoke and services Orion VIIs. The garage operates some routes mainly in Etobicoke such as Alderwood, Mimico, New Toronto, Rexdale and Thistletown as well as the west half of Old Toronto. During peak periods approximately 150 buses from the garage are in revenue service.^[2]

Address: 400 Evans Avenue, Etobicoke
Opened: 1966
Facility: bus garage

Wilson

Wilson Bus Garage viewed from a southbound train, facing west

Main article: Wilson Yard

The Wilson Complex is the largest bus facility and second largest subway yard in the system. The garage serviced the TTC fleet of natural gas powered buses before they were scrapped or converted to Diesel operation. Wilson services Orion VII NG hybrids, Orion VII NGs diesels, Orion VII EPA10s, and the new Novabus LFS Artic 3rd/4th Gen. This garage operates the most surface routes in the TTC network (the role previously taken by New Eglinton), it operates many of the largest routes throughout Central Toronto, North York, York, Old Toronto, Vaughan and few in East York and Scarborough.

Historic

Danforth Carhouse and Bus Garage (1921–2002) - converted to storage and office space
Davenport Bus Garage (1930–1992)
Eglinton Carhouse and Bus Garage (1921–2002) - bus garage converted to a (temporary) bus terminal at Eglinton station
Lansdowne Carhouse and Bus Garage (1921–1996) - demolished
Parkdale Bus Garage (1947–1980) - demolished
Sherbourne Bus Garage (1930–1980) - demolished
St. Clair Carhouse (1921–1992) - partially demolished and converted to Wychwood Barns
Woodbine Bus Garage (1954–1956) - demolished
Wychwood Barns (1913-1996) - part of St. Clair Carhouse, barns are now converted into community centre and urban park
George Street Yard (1894?-1960s) - annex for Sherbourne Garage and used to store and scrap streetcars; located at 170 The Esplanade East; now part of David Crombie Park built along with the St. Lawrence housing project (built between 1960s to1990s)
165 Front Street East - Built 1886-1887 for Toronto Street Railway near St Lawrence Market as horse stables and became electrical generating plant 1891 after horsecar converted to electric car operations by Toronto Railway Company; later as storage space 1906 and acquired by TTC in 1921; used until 1924 and deemed surplus in 1970s; sold to Young People's Theatre 1977

References

Toronto Transit Commission

Bus	Blue Night Network Fleet Routes Wheel-Trans York University Busway

Subway	Yonge–University Bloor–Danforth Scarborough Sheppard Eglinton Rolling stock Stations Signals

Streetcars	501 Queen 502 Downtowner 503 Kingston Rd 504 King 505 Dundas 506 Carlton 509 Harbourfront 510 Spadina 511 Bathurst 512 St. Clair 514 Cherry Rolling stock Loops

History	Incidents Queen subway line Eglinton West line Network 2011 Gray Coach 1995 Russell Hill subway accident 2006 strike 2008 strike 508 Lake Shore 521 Exhibition East 522 Exhibition West Transit City

Predecessors	Williams Omnibus Bus Line (1849-1862) Toronto Street Railway (1861–1891) Toronto Railway Company (1891–1921) Toronto and York Radial Railway (1898–1922) Metropolitan Street Railway (1885-1897) Toronto Civic Railways (1912–1921) Hydro Electric Railways (1922-1927) Toronto Transportation Commission (1921-1953)

Facilities	Bus garages Davisville Yard Eglinton Maintenance and Storage Facility Greenwood Yard Hillcrest Complex Leslie Barns McCowan Yard Roncesvalles Carhouse Russell Carhouse Toronto Coach Terminal Vincent Yard William McBrien Building Wilson Yard

Proposed	Finch West LRT Jane LRT Relief Line Sheppard East LRT Waterfront West LRT

Miscellaneous	Accessibility Fares Metrolinx The Big Move Personnel Font Trackage Transit Enforcement Unit

Italics indicate a project under construction

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