Toronto TTC 1980s Streetcar and Trackless Trolley Video 

Times changed yes but now it’s just filled with condos and a bank load of construction

The cars are awesome too !

Its not from 1980 its from around 1988

+roxorz007 I noticed that all the trolleybuses had their rollsigns set to white blanks, instead of the usual 3-color signs that I always liked. Neither the vehicles nor the overhead were well kept up by the 1980s. The suspicion was, TTC top brass didn't like them, and wanted to make them look bad, to justify getting rid of them. Besides, at the time, the Ontario government was pushing CNG buses as the next big thing; those turned out to be an unmitigated disaster. Almost 20 years later the story repeated itself in Edmonton, where some ex-TTC types had moved; but for CNG substitute hybrids.

smwca123 This must have been during the construction of the Harbourfront streetcar tunnel under Bay Street. All buses had to terminate at Front St but there was no rollsign for the 6F (Dupont-Front) branch.

I find the city alot cleaner now than it was back then....so I don't know what you're talking about.

V. Applebaum, I agree, I remember Toronto then, loved the streetcars, all the great neighborhoods. Moved away long ago but Toronto in those times were so good!

The trolley wirelines needed to be re-strung , and that would have been very expensive. Also, the cost of replacing the trolley buses would have been very high.

That would be 1993.

TV sans fils Actually, Trolley bus service came to an end in 1993.

I think it was supposed to be 1990, but they couldn't afford replacement buses so they kept them going another couple years

+François Caron that happens all the time in Toronto. The operator just gets out and puts the line back on the cable wire and contiunes driving. Traffic just halts until hes done

Not in this case! When I said the line let go, I meant it SNAPPED!

Yes Francis,in Dec 1990 a Bay 6 trolley just passed Wellington St on its way to Front.Before there was a switch,that split the line into two,one going for making the turn on front,and other going straight to Harbourfront. Well,I remember the driver did not navigate the power switch properly and it resulted in a dewirement that caused sparks like the 4th of July,and the bus was stranded. I this the incident you remember.

@@nikola0566 Hamilton's had diesel generators so they could just keep driving until they were out of the way. Vancouver's have batteries

The TTC abandoned its trolleybus system in 1993.

@@hoteldennis Hamilton also got rid of their trolleybuses in the 90s. I used to love those trolleybuses, hated like hell to see them go.

+TotalGamerNerd 9433 Maybe to show the M class cars, identifiable by their oval-shaped door windows. Those were the TTC's first 75-foot cars, built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1962.

zackcraft The Crossways! I used to live there :)

It was one of those big VHS cameras that took a full size VHS tape.