Scene: Passengers Take First Ride on TTC’s New Articulated Bus

By January 2015, there'll be over 150 of these bendy vehicles on the streets of Toronto.

By Sarah Sweet • Photos by Corbin Smith

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TTC spokesperson Brad Ross leads the way to one of the TTC's new articulated buses.

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The bus leaving Bathurst Station—the Bathurst 7 route is the first to get one of the new bendy buses.

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What is that in the background? Is it a tiny model bus? It looks as if it might be only about 40 feet long.

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Some of the first passengers ever to ride on a new TTC articulated bus, probably hoping that 60-odd people will get on and demonstrate that the bus can, indeed, carry 77 people.

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At the back—wayyyyyy at the back—looking toward the front of the 60-foot-long bus.

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People standing conveniently just outside the window, allowing us to appreciate how low the new floors are.

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The various knobs. buttons, and dials that allow bus drivers to work transit magic (and possibly open one or all of the new bus's three doors).

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Beware of this door that is opening? Or beware of opening this door? Of what exactly should we beware?!

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The bus is watching, and will presumably know if you're being naughty or nice.

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WHERE: Bathurst Station

WHEN: Friday, December 20, 9:30 a.m.

WHAT: Transit riders got the chance to check out one of the TTC’s new accessible articulated buses today, as the first in its planned fleet hit the streets near Bathurst Station to serve the 7 Bathurst route. The TTC is set to receive 153 of them (at a cost of $143.7 million), and they’ll all be pressed into service on the most high-demand routes—such as 29 Dufferin, 63 Ossington, and 6 Bay—by January 2015. These 60-foot-long buses run on clean diesel, have low floors and three doors, and will accommodate 48 seated and 29 standing passengers—which represents a 45 per cent increase in capacity from the existing 40-foot buses with which we’re all familiar.