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9 unusual facts about Toronto Transit Commission


Achilla Orru

In Toronto, Achilla Orru was also well known as a TTC subway musician, often playing at Bloor-Yonge subway station.

Allison V730

In 2000, the Toronto Transit Commission started to retrofit New Flyer's 1990 D40HF buses from the ZF ECOMAT 500 transmission due to failures.

Fare

In Canada, the Toronto Transit Commission charges $500 for people evading the $3.00 CDN fare.

John Records Landecker

The initialism of 'Trudeau Talks Cute' was TTC, which was also used to play up the often-unpopular Toronto Transit Commission.

Lagos Rail Mass Transit

In September 2011, LAMATA announced that it would acquire 255 H5 and H6 model subway trains from the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).

Onestop Media Group

In early 2004, Fourth Wall approached the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), through then static advertising incumbent, CBS Outdoor (then named Viacom Outdoor) with a new concept of digital signage as an information network, that was 100% supported by ad dollars.

In the summer of 2004, the TTC awarded the rights to a pilot and eventual contract to Fourth Wall, that then spun off the digital signage subsidiary, Onestop Media Group to handle the Toronto Transit Commission and all future digital signage contracts.

Rick Mercer Report

Often Mercer will participate in some demonstration related to the location (e.g. driving a TTC bus while visiting the agency's bus compound), with comic results.

Steve Munro

In 2010, while he was serving as a member of an advisory board on a yet to be built transit museum, Munro went public with complaints that the outgoing members of the Toronto Transit Commission were inappropriately rushing to solidify plans for the museum to bolster their personal legacies.


Claude Watson School for the Arts

Known across Canada, it has performed at Toronto's 2008 Olympic bid, TTC's 50th Anniversary, the Opening Ceremonies of the 1997 Special Olympics at the Sky Dome, and numerous cultural festivals around the world in addition to major production partnerships with professional companies like the Canadian Opera Company.

Ikarus Bus

Ikarus provided body shells (without doors, windows, seats, engine) for Orion Bus Industries contracts to supply Toronto and Ottawa transit systems with articulated buses in late 1986-1987.

Islington-City Centre West

The Toronto Transit Commission's Bloor–Danforth line was extended into Etobicoke as far as Islington in 1968 with the establishment of Islington station at Islington Avenue and Bloor Street West.

Kirkfield

When later combined with other streetcar companies such as the Toronto Civic Railways, the Toronto and York Radial Railway and the Toronto Suburban Railway, the TRC became the basis for the Toronto Transit Commission in 1921.

MiWay

The system also connects with Brampton Transit to the north, Oakville Transit to the west, York Region Transit to the northeast, and the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) to the east, including the Islington and Kipling subway stations on the Bloor–Danforth line.

Morningside Heights, Toronto

The TTC's 133 Neilson bus serves most of the area, with a connection to the Scarborough Centre RT station and Scarborough Town Centre.

Old Cummer GO Station

Even though the station's connecting services are provided by the Toronto Transit Commission, the station itself is situated rather far from Finch Avenue or Leslie Street to really provide a convenient connection.

Richard Ducharme

In 1999 he left GO Transit to join the Toronto Transit Commission as General Manager, replacing David Gunn who announced his retirement on October 7, 1998.


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