The TTC has announced route changes coming soon to routes serving Broadview and Pape Stations due to impending Ontario Line construction. This will occur in two stages. Note that the dates are approximate and depend on construction progress.
Effective Sunday, March 31, 2024
With the next schedule change on March 31, 2024, loading arrangements at Pape Station will change as shown in the map below.
- All routes will drop off at Bay 1 just inside the station entrance from Pape.
- 72 Pape will shift east to Bay 2.
- Wheel-Trans will share Bay 2 with the Pape bus.
- 25 Don Mills and 925 Don Mills Express will load on the street on Lipton Avenue. New bus bays will be built there starting on March 25 by Metrolinx.
- 81 Thorncliffe Park will load at a stop in front of the main entrance of Pape Station.
Effective Sunday May 12 to October 5, 2024
Pape Station will completely close to buses, but will remain open for subway access. This triggers substantial changes in the routes serving Pape and Broadview Stations:
- The 72 Pape and 81 Thorncliffe Park routes will be amalgamated. The combined route 72 will use on-street stops on Pape and will not enter the subway loop. This arrangement is similar to one used during Broadview Avenue construction in 2023 except that buses on the amalgamated route will not loop through Pape Station.
- The 72A (Eastern) and 72C (Commissioners) services will remain, but the 72B (Union Station) service will be dropped. The 72A will only operate during peak periods to provide extra service north from Eastern Avenue. The 72C service will run at all times
- A new 114 Queens Quay East bus will operate from Union Station to the Port Lands, but its exact route at the eastern end has not been announced. This replaces the 72B service, and eliminates the transfer-free link to the eastern waterfront from Pape Station, such as it was with infrequent service.
- The 25 Don Mills and 925 Don Mills Express buses will be rerouted to Broadview Station from Pape via O’Connor and Broadview. They will use Bays 4 and 3 respectively.
- The 8 Broadview and 62 Mortimer buses which now loop in Broadview Station will be extended south to loop at Bridgepoint Hospital. This is similar to a service diversion used during construction on Broadview in 2023.
- 87 Cosburn will continue to loop at Broadview Station, but will shift to Bay 5 now used by 8 Broadview and Wheel-Trans which will remain at that bay.
- 100 Flemingdon Park will also continue to loop at Broadview Station, and it will use Bay 2.
- Bay 1 at Broadview Station, now used by 62 Mortimer, will be a spare.
Shutdowns of Pape Station for subway service are also planned due to construction work within the station. Dates have not been confirmed, but an earlier report listed two weekends in April, one in June and one in July.
When schedule details are available, I will post them here in the usual omnibus service change articles.
Steve Munro 
The extension of the 8 and 62 surprised me, but I guess they reduce bus bay traffic and in-station pedestrian/mobility-device traffic too. Interesting.
I remember a previous plan that included Donlands for some buses – I guess the delayed construction there may have prevented that.
Steve: I am no sure that having to transfer on the street exactly endears the TTC to riders who have mobility challenges. At least this arrangement is only supposed to last until October.
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Hi Steve, is the 72-81 amalgamation permanent or merely until October? Or is that TBD?
Steve: I have not heard anything definite, but suspect that as the availability of loops, notably at Donlands, changes, there may be a reshuffling of routes. Construction at Donlands is projected to end in Q2 2024, but the 72-81 amalgamation is described on the TTC’s site as lasting until October. What could also affect overall plans will be the changing state of Pape for OL construction, and how much bus service the street can reasonably support.
Of course, by October we might even have an announced opening date for the Crosstown complete with a finalized surface route map. Maybe.
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Interesting times ahead soon. It makes me wonder if there will be any route relocations between divisions as well in regards to the service changes, as recently, Birchmount Division has an increased workload with the relocation of 100 Flemingdon Park from Eglinton Division.
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dowlingm wrote:
Some months ago they put up the route signs over the bus bays at the new (as yet unopened) Science Centre Centre station. I noticed then that there was no 81 Thorncliffe Park sign, but there was one for 72 Pape. I mused at the time about whether that was a(nother) Metrolinx mistake or whether the 81 and 72 would be interlined. It would seem it’s the latter and is expected to last through the opening of Line 5, at least for a while.
Steve: And yet the map in the 2022 Service Plan shows route 81 running to Thorncliffe Park. I suspect that the plans have changed more than once over past years.
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Will the 925 have a stop at Broadview and Cosburn? If not, that’s a problem.
Steve: Details of the revised route have not yet been published.
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Pape Station needs to be corrected … Again?
This is a renovated station.
Steve: Renovated, yes, but not by Metrolinx. The TTC work at Pape predates the Ontario Line design, and it is likely that the Relief Line interchange would have been different because of its planned alignment.
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Steve, in your reply to Richard above, you provided a link to the map 2022 Service Plan (“Proposed TTC Routes Connecting to Line 5 Eglinton”, I notice that bus route 34 EGLINTON which provides surface service between LRT stops, runs between Keelesdale in the west through to Science Centre in the east. Was it the TTC’s intention to remove bus service altogether between Science Centre and Kennedy?
Steve: Originally yes. This has been changed, and there will be a bus paralleling the surface LRT to Kennedy. Someday, they will produce an updated map.
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