Compiled by Jeffrey Kay
With Additional Information by Peter Coulman
March 31, 1954
A new overnight bus service is launched on Yonge Street, providing transit service when the subway is closed, and replacing overnight service on the Yonge streetcar and Yonge trolley bus. Buses operate from the inner (south) loop at Glen Echo, south on Yonge and then west on Front, looping via north on University, east on Wellington and south on York. On Sunday mornings, buses continue to operate until the subway opens at 9 a.m.
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Y O N G E |
CITY LIMITS |
7 Days a Week, “Owl” | |
September 1956
Assigned route number 99.
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Y O N G E |
99 |
CITY LIMITS |
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7 days a week, “Owl” | ||
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Y O N G E |
99A |
EGLINTON |
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Occasional Short Turns | ||
November 30, 1960
The south end loop is reversed with buses going north via York, west via Wellington and south via University.
March 1, 1963
With the demise of the DUPONT streetcar coincident with the opening of the UNIVERSITY subway line, service on 99 YONGE NIGHT is extended to serve the Ferry Docks, operating south on Yonge, west on Front and south on Bay before looping via west on Harbour, south on York and east on Queen’s Quay, returning north on Bay over the reverse routing.
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Y O N G E |
99B |
CITY LIMITS |
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7 days a week, “Owl” | ||
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Y O N G E |
99C |
EGLINTON |
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Occasional Short Turns | ||
June 20, 1963
The south end loop is revised to loop counter-clockwise through Ferry Loop rather than via Harbour, York and Queen’s Quay.
September 7, 1965
With the closure of the Ferry loop, buses now loop via west on Lakeshore, south on York and east on Queen’s Quay.
April 16, 1972
Buses now loop at the south end via south on Yonge, west on Lake Shore, north on Bay and west on Front.
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Y O N G E |
99 |
CITY LIMITS |
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7 days a week, “Owl” | ||
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Y O N G E |
99A |
EGLINTON |
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Occasional Short Turns | ||
April 12, 1973
Despite the extension of the Yonge subway to York Mills station, 99 YONGE NIGHT buses continue to operate to Glen Echo loop. With the closure of the inner (south) loop at Glen Echo, buses now loop using the north (outer) loop and exiting onto westbound Glen Echo.
March 30, 1974
Last day of operation. With the extension of the Yonge subway to Finch Avenue, overnight service is now provided as a branch of the daytime 97 YONGE bus route.
Note
As late as February 1984 the southbound bus stop at Yonge and Bishop was marked for routes 97 and 99. When overnight service was extended to this location just north of Finch Avenue, the night bus was numbered 97B, and not 99. Therefore the posted sign was incorrect.
99 Yonge Night Image Archive
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Circa 1965, the TTC places signs up and down Yonge Street, promoting 27 DOWNTOWN and 99 YONGE NIGHT services. |
