Caption: A sunny summer afternoon around 12:12pm (according to the terminal clock) finds TTC Peter Witt streetcar 2766 operating on a fantrip charter, waiting in traffic southbound on Bay Street at Dundas as pedestrians cross in the foreground (in front of a station wagon marked for "The Spectator" (Hamilton Spectator?)). The old Peter Witt is one of a handful retained, re-acquired or borrowed by the TTC for a downtown Tour Tram service that ran for a few years in the 1970's, after the last of the Witts had been retired in 1965. They were popular for transit enthusiast charters and fantrips during their reprieve, and the TTC still retains car 2766 today for rare trips out around town.

In the background is the the Toronto Coach Terminal, downtown Toronto's main intercity coach terminal located at the southwest corner of Bay and Edward. Operators running out of the terminal are displayed on the signage outside: GO Transit (note slightly different logo with stylish arrow), Voyageur Colonial (east coast coach operator later absorbed by Greyhound, note billboard in the background), Gray Line tours, Greyhound Canada, and Gray Coach Lines. It initially opened December 19th 1931 and served as the main Toronto hub for the TTC's interurban coach operator Gray Coach Lines (sold off to Greyhound in the 90's). As the years went by, the terminal proved to be a poor location due to its distance from major highways (QEW/Gardiner/Hwy 427/Hwy 401) and the need for buses to navigate busy downtown traffic.

GO Transit began its own bus operations here in 1970, but in the 90's moved to loading right outside of Union Station on Front Street, until a new bus terminal opened in 2001 (the site of the old CP Express Building). GO recently moved into yet another new bus terminal south of the rail corridor in December 2021, its bus services out of Union outgrowing the previous one!

For the longest time, Greyhound Canada had been the main tenant of the Toronto Coach Terminal. But that all changed when they suspended all Canadian operations due to the COVID pandemic in May 2020, and announced a year later in May 2021 that they would be ceasing all of their Canadian operations permanently. Ontario Northland's bus service was the final operator to use the terminal, but it wasn't long before they moved to the new GO bus terminal downtown, and the old Toronto Coach Terminal on Bay would close on July 4rd 2021. The main building and lobby area (that had underwent restoration) is on the city's heritage register, so it is expected it would be retained and incorporated in whatever redevelopment plans will follow.

Photographer unknown, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.