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 Rd

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

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.

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 retiring Orion VIIs, along with the new Novabus LFS series buses; these are the first buses to be delivered with the LFLRV Livery and are being delivered as of now.

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.

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, Orion VII NG hybrids, and the new Novabus LFS Artics. During peak periods approximately 230 buses from the garage are in revenue service.[2]

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, Orion VII NG hybrids, and Novabus LFS Artics. During peak periods approximately 230 buses from the garage are in revenue service.[2]

Queensway

Queensway Garage is the major facility for Etobicoke and services Orion VIIs and Novabus LFS'. This garage formerly served many New Flyer buses including the D40 and D40LF. 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]

Wilson

Wilson Bus Garage viewed from a southbound train, facing west

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 Artics 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.

Future

McNicoll

The McNicoll Garage will have indoor storage for 250 buses with facilities to fuel and clean buses.[3]

Historic

References

  1. ↑ Transit Toronto - Eglinton Garage
  2. 1 2 3 http://www.ttc.ca/PDF/Transit_Planning/Service_Summary_2015_02_15.pdf
  3. ↑ "McNicoll Bus Garage / Public Open House – Building and Landscape Design" (PDF). Toronto Transit Commission. 20 October 2015. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
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