Compiled by Jeffrey Kay

February 9, 1989

Overnight services on Yonge Street are now designated as route 320 YONGE instead of 97B YONGE, bringing the route in line with the newly established network of Blue Night services. Service is provided on Yonge Street between Steeles Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard. At the north end buses turn back in the off-street loop on the south side of Steeles, just east of Yonge. The downtown looping is south on Yonge, west on Lake Shore, north on Bay and east on Front. Early Sunday morning (between 6 and 9 am), short turn buses run from Lake Shore north to York Mills Station only.

Beginning on September 6, 1988 (or early as May 1988)

Additional trips were operated between Lake Shore and York Mills station in the early hours of Tuesday through Sunday until about 3.30 am. Some later trips ran north from Lake Shore to Eglinton until 4 am. This pattern of operation lasted until at least late 1992 but it is not known for how many years after this, that the operation of these short trips continued.

March 31, 1991

The downtown loop is expanded a block to the south and buses now loop south on Yonge, west on Queens Quay, north on Bay and east on Front.

August 1, 2004

Early morning trips operate in both directions via Eglinton Station, seven days a week, so that customers can easily transfer to and from other routes within the station.

September 5, 2004

To provide additional service to the “Entertainment District” after hours, some trips are extended at the south end of the route, up University Avenue. Service operates every half hour. Buses operate via south on Yonge, west on Front, north on University, to loop around Queen’s Park Circle, returning over the reverse route via University, Front and Yonge to Steeles.

November 25, 2006

The extension to Queen’s Park Circle via University is discontinued due to low ridership.

320 Yonge Night Image Archive

An official TTC map of 320 YONGE NIGHT operations effective January 3, 2011.

With the subway closed until 9 a.m. on Sundays, it was quite possible to catch 320 YONGE night buses operating well past sunrise. Buses operated more frequently the closer to the opening of the subway and, back in the early 1990s, articulated buses were used. Here, Orion Icarus articulated 6410 heads up Yonge Street out of the downtown. The bus appears to have quite a crowd inside. This photograph was taken on August 20, 1989 by Bob Hussey.