Final Days of the Toronto Coach Terminal

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The old Toronto Coach Terminal was in service for almost 90 years, and served various intercity bus routes run by Greyhound, Megabus, and Ontario Northland. With two buildings on Bay St and Elizabeth St, the terminal was the main point for bus arrivals and departures into Toronto, and provided connections to cities across Ontario, Quebec and the United States. The terminal closed on July 3, 2021 and is expected to be redeveloped in the years to come.
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@VanishingUnderground 3 года назад

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@arrjay2410 3 года назад

I remember spending many hours (usually an hour at a time) as a student and a car-less young adult in that building, both before and after the remodeling, in the 80s and early 90s. I went to University outside of T.O. and my parents and most of my family, lived to the north or northwest of Toronto. I rarely used Greyhound. They never seemed to be going where I was going. I'm glad they will preserve the main building, even if it is repurposed. It has some real character. The move is a good thing, the facility seemed strained and awkward even in the 1980s. I haven't taken a bus in a while so I haven't been able to check out the Union Station facilities.

@GaryW48 2 года назад

I was at the old Toronto Bus Terminal once, on Friday, July 8th, 1971. I came in from Buffalo, to connect with Peterborough, but for some reason, our inbound bus was late. I waited at the terminal until late at night until the next scheduled Gray Coach departed. My memory was the smell of diesel fumes from idling buses and of little air circulation moving the air around on a humid evening. Still, the older terminal brought excitement with its curved facade to this young traveler.

@OntarioTrafficMan 3 года назад

The coach terminal had a poor location and a poorly designed terminal area. The new Union bus terminal is an overall improvement. The only nice part of the old terminal was the art deco entrance hall, which will almost certainly be preserved during redevelopment.

@Saucy-ws6jc 3 года назад

Personally I would rather ride a train but it is a shame this is closing. Also all of Union Station should have been only art deco.

@GaryW48 2 года назад

You must remember when the old Terminal was built, Toronto was just a lot smaller of a city than what it is now. It served its passengers well.

@OntarioTrafficMan 2 года назад

@@GaryW48 Regardless of the size of the city, a bus terminal without any kind of raised platform is not a high-quality facility

@jayman105 2 года назад

The location was prime and perfect for a coach terminal 91 years ago. Go read some history and research sites and their purposes before spouting off such nonsense.

@OntarioTrafficMan 2 года назад

@@jayman105 Okay... the Gardiner Expressway didn't exist 91 years ago, bus routes have changed significantly since then

@TrainMike2013 3 года назад

hope the Grey Coach stained glass mural is saved and preserved.

@ESmyth-nu7ug 3 года назад

Fantastic job as always. Picked up many friends over the years from this place. Hoping for a properly done redevelopment as it’s in municipal hands. 🤞 Excited for its future...

@PWingert1966 3 года назад

Lost a girlfriend that was coming in on a bus. she decided to go home with this scummy guy she met on the bus. He ended up doing nasty things to her with a friend at his apartment. She ended up in the hospital for a few days and he sold a video of it all. I told her not to go but she wanted the "big city excitement". She got it!

@urbanpreppie05 3 года назад

Hey- Ive been here! Megabus used to have a "hub" in Pittsburgh and had daily overnight service to Toronto. Took it there for like, $5 and then another megabus to Montreal...where i proceeded to fall in love with the city and visit every year for four years. :-) It was a funky, weird layout, but still kinda cool.

@anareel4562 3 года назад

"affordable housing" so 2 million dollar condos then?

@JoshCEstrella 3 года назад

Gray Coach Residences now on pre-sale from the low 1900s

@anareel4562 3 года назад

@@JoshCEstrella 450 square feet for as little as 1.9mil

@owoairsoft4224 3 года назад

Im gonna miss this place, I've been taking the megabus from this terminal from Toronto - Montreal or Toronto - Niagara Falls for yeaaaaars. Sad to see this place go 😢

@coastaku1954 2 года назад

Take Via instead

@lllk7488 2 года назад

Oh boy, it's a very personal memories connected to this terminal.. Aug 05 1995 first time arrived in Canada as an immigrant from Ukraine and from here went by Greyhound bus to Wpg.. Everything in this universe will have a final days))

@blackpanda7298 3 года назад

So many memories 😭😩 great job fam.

@thevultrantransituniverse1487 3 года назад

It's better that intercity bus service now stops at Union Station because the new terminal is very nice and modern and it's near the Gardiner.

@raytylicki9001 2 года назад

It has Chandlers and is art deco

@I_am_Allan 3 года назад

I've spent many many hours on that terminal.

@Lorijenken 2 года назад

for 20 years I went to this station to travel across Ontario, this hurts to see it go but it was in bad shape.

@christopher6740 3 года назад

Sad, but it is what it is...

@Brick-Life 3 года назад

WE do not have any intercity bus stations in australia

@raytylicki9001 2 года назад

Still should be saved

@DDRWakaLaka 2 года назад

Shame to see it go, but it was becoming inadequate and needed some cash injected into it, badly. I'll always remember waiting for the Greyhound to Chicago so I could see my fiance, now husband.

@dmann5938 3 года назад

I miss your second intro :( It’s badass

@PWingert1966 3 года назад

Before the upper level was a restaurant it was a waiting area in the 1980s. I met a runaway there and spent a couple of weeks with her as my live-in companion till she took off again. The tunnel leading to the mall always smelled like raw sewage. When they initially created it broke an underground sewage line and flooded the entire construction area. Even after they finished the tunnel it smells like old rubber and sewage. I once saw a guy doing an unwilling young girl late at night in the tunnel. It was scummy. All the homeless people used to go to the mall and then to the bus terminal when they got thrown out then back to the mall.

@louisaugustexvi4515 3 года назад

thats... disturbing (about the unwilling girl part. hope wherever she is shes okay. yeah bus terminals have always sorta been scummy

@PWingert1966 3 года назад

@@louisaugustexvi4515 That's Toronto. For all the good there is an underbelly of filth you just need to put your hand under the surface. While it was an unpleasant event, I decided caution was the better part of valor. and hoped she would not get herself into a situation like that next time. Not everyone can be rescued and not everyone can be a hero all the time.

@marks5141 2 года назад

@@PWingert1966 "Doing", as in sexual assault? That is disturbing indeed. Intervention may not always be the best approach, would contacting the police in such a circumstance?

@PWingert1966 2 года назад

@@marks5141 The downtown core was not a pretty or safe place back in the mid-eighties at night. With no cell phones and the closest police station being several blocks away on Dundas (And they used to shut the payphones off at 9pm in the downtown core due to being used by drug traffickers. They left one or two with just 911 if you knew where they were!) So it becomes an assessment issue. Can I get help, will that help I am seeking to be able to mount assistance (Typical security guards won't even unlock a door downtown at night back then), and can I get them here before the event is over. The answer to most of those in that event was a no. In the Mid-eighties Toronto used to roll up the sidewalks at about dusk and there was no one downtown and nothing going on that was legal. Warehouse raves, a couple of drug dens and a bunch of after hour booze cans. That was life in Downtown Toronto in 1985.

@muffs55mercury61 Год назад

Too bad some people's answer is to modernize everything. Yuck. I hope the building isn't torn down.

@brendanu1680 3 года назад

Make A Coaster Evolution Video!

@jtsholtod.79 3 года назад

With all due respect, this was a miserable place for most of the past four decades I used it. Dark, cramped, terrible amenities, user unfriendly and overall just not somewhere you wanted to be for very long. Mind you, many older core city bus terminals are pretty much abysmal (looking at you, Port Authority). For the sake of passengers, struggling intercity bus lines and the building itself, I'm glad it was closed and will be repurposed for Torontonians while still maintaining its historical facade and lobby.

@alexanderip1003 Год назад

I hope this building gets reused as an Ambulance garage x Casualty Ward for Sick kids

@bloodydoll5897 3 года назад

doubtful it would happen but making the bus bays into communal areas and then having appartements around it sounds rad for affordable housing. so much housing is so boring and aleniating I LOVE PEOPLE