1 Armour Heights

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1 ARMOUR HEIGHTS Route History
*Last updated March 18th, 2002*	by Alan Gryfe from information provided by Jeffrey Kay & Peter Coulson

Avenue Road high-level bridge over the Don River (West Branch)

Looking northeast at the intersection of Avenue Road & Wilson in 1949, a few years before the NORTH YONGE bus was extended west on Wilson (down the right side of the photo) and north on Avenue Road (across the bottom). The sharp-eyed among you may notice that Highway 401 is yet to be built.

Gordon H. Jarrett photo/Northway Survey Corp. Ltd.

November 19th, 1952

Service to Armour Heights begins as a branch of the NORTH YONGE route, running from Glen Echo loop via northwest on Yonge Boulevard, west on Wilson Avenue and north on Avenue Road, looping counterclockwise via east on Bombay Avenue, north on Tregellis Road, west on Sandringham Drive and south on Bideford Avenue back to Avenue Road. One bus provides service on a 20:00 minute headway.

NORTH YONGE	BOMBAY CITY LIMITS
sign assumed

January 15th, 1954

Officially becomes a separate route, instead of a branch of NORTH YONGE.

ARMOUR HTS	BOMBAY CITY LIMITS
sign assumed

July 1st, 1954

Routing revised to operate as a shuttle on Avenue Road between Bombay and Roe loop. At the same time the northern terminal loop is replaced by a U-turn in the intersection of Avenue Road and Bombay Avenue.

ARMOUR HTS	BOMBAY R O E
rush hours only

Autumn, 1956

Route number 1 assigned to ARMOUR HEIGHTS.

ARMOUR HTS

BOMBAY
R O E

April 2nd, 1990

In conjunction with the inauguration of the 142 AVENUE RD/DOWNTOWN EXPRESS route, ARMOUR HEIGHTS service eliminated during rush hours, running only from 9:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.