Traffic and transportation around Toronto and Ontario in the 1960s-70s(HD) credit: Archives of Ontario
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@SuperCrappyNinja2 жыл бұрын
What amazes me is that GO Transit still uses the same engine, train boxes and even the logo in 2022.
@serzykzykoff15342 жыл бұрын
...and mentally Ontario still in 70s....
@jeremiahjeremiah13192 жыл бұрын
I just pointed that out lol. I'm a train conductor and notice that too
@BODUKE32012 жыл бұрын
I noticed that myself. Too lazy to make a new logo? Lol
@stephenp4482 жыл бұрын
Those engines have long since been phased out. The last F40PH was retired in 1990.
@marcoling21732 жыл бұрын
@@BODUKE3201 To be fair that logo seems to be a simple and timeless design, there really isn't a need for a new one
@robertb86292 жыл бұрын
High employment, affordable houses being built everywhere. Affordable cars. Calmer times. Peaceful times.
@crinkly.love-stick2 жыл бұрын
Except for it being known as the golden age for serial killers, it wasn't too bad
@ALuimes2 жыл бұрын
@@crinkly.love-stick The average person wouldn't have had an nasty encounter with a serial killer by a long shot
@ALuimes2 жыл бұрын
@@Ben-ek1fz I think you mean the 90s. The 80s were prosperous after the recession in 1981.
@vk68322 жыл бұрын
Are you saying diversity isn't our strength?
@year6million2 жыл бұрын
@@ALuimes tell that to the victims of serial killers
@richystar20012 жыл бұрын
Take me back to those days....when anything north of Toronto was cottage country.
@elliotsaunders7445 Жыл бұрын
And you drove North on two way Hwy 11, if you were going to Muskoka you stopped at Richmond Hill to buy gas and a snack. On weekends Richmond Hill south was bumper to bumper as husbands came to the cottage for the weekend. By the way, I never heard the term cottage country back then.
@3abbosi2 ай бұрын
Burlington (where I live since 1999) was a farming town, the last apple orchard was removed in 1968 replaced by Burlington mall... there are still some working farms on Burloak dr. & some houses south of QEW has more than a 100 years old trees in their backyards.
@CinHalCedHerChanceКүн бұрын
yes
@MmntechCa2 жыл бұрын
My granddad was a carpenter and concrete form builder. Worked on a lot of those infrastructure jobs in the 60s and 70s. Even on the CN tower. Was certainly a different time.
@simpson42372 жыл бұрын
My wife's grandfather also worked on the CN tower. She has a few pictures of one of the crews. One of them they are building the antenna one the ground before it was craned up
@mikesmith73262 ай бұрын
Mine was an iron worker. Worked on the cn tower, skydome,Gm plant in oashawa, exhibition stadium just to name a few
@FlacoEnrique72 жыл бұрын
I wish I would have lived during these times. Toronto and everything surrounding it looked so much beautiful and peaceful
@stevevasta9 ай бұрын
As recently as the 1990s, the city itself was calmer -- the Toronto I fell in love with. Dundas Square was a symptom of the "wrong" transformation.
@javierdenardo2607Ай бұрын
It was
@byngostar689526 күн бұрын
Oh it was! ❤
@CinHalCedHerChanceКүн бұрын
No kidding.
@jamesdillon92732 жыл бұрын
Audio cuts out at 3:07 but this was the video I’ve always wanted to watch!! Amazing.
@DokisKalin12 ай бұрын
I'm glad it was not my computer lol
@PLS.54Ай бұрын
Right? what a bummer.
@orangepants57492 жыл бұрын
I remember my dad telling me about this upbeat music constantly playing in the background back in those days
@DokisKalin12 ай бұрын
That would be nice for a short period...
@theninethrees80442 жыл бұрын
When people could actually afford a home
@rootbeer48882 жыл бұрын
You mean before the politicians and banks printed money endlessly and sold us out to china and multinationals.
@MuhammadAmin-ov4uv2 жыл бұрын
Exactly 💯 Toronto looks like such a cool city to live in classy and modern only problem it's expensive
@thegreypenguin50972 жыл бұрын
You mean before single family zoning and car dependent development ultimately led to the current problem?
@odogg69812 жыл бұрын
I hear u
@dougwebb7042 жыл бұрын
You've got it backwards. Toronto was built on single family homes. That's our history and what made this city great. Just look around. There was no "before single family home zoning". You could walk up Yonge Street, turn off onto a perpendicular street and you'd be into single family homes. It gave Toronto a living downtown core. You can thank Chinese development companies and globalization and international land speculators for the price of things. You wanted a world class city, well you got your wish. Now you're going to have to compete with the global wealthy.
@taveshdeonandan90792 ай бұрын
When Brampton was just a village
@CinHalCedHerChanceКүн бұрын
Now it's a disaster of a village.
@dangerouslystupid29122 жыл бұрын
This just makes me wish time machines existed. I hate what Canada has become.
@1decee2 ай бұрын
Yup. Toronto has turned into a cesspool with Liberal immigration and spending
@stephenjones53042 ай бұрын
We do have choices. As a senior, I have been mostly riding a mountain bike, rather than driving the car. It is up to you.
@JohnSmith-qx8ll2 ай бұрын
You said it pal. Endless liberal nonsense destroyed our nation.
@andrewohare85502 ай бұрын
Same thing here in the USA, definitely a better time back then.
@johnk71782 ай бұрын
Canada was so much better back then.
@fredbartlett43942 жыл бұрын
I remember as a kid in the early 60s going from Toronto to Brockville Ontario on the 401 , and fighting with my sister in the back seat ,mom would pull over and smack us with her shoe, The good old days ,
@hpholland2 ай бұрын
Hitting a little kid with a shoe is not funny. Use your words, mom
@RemiKJV16112 ай бұрын
@@hpholland Kijk naar de generatie om je heen. Dat is het resultaat van woorden.
@689mooseАй бұрын
@@hphollandIt’s actually quite funny
@buttnugget29002 жыл бұрын
Wish the audio didn't cut out. This made me feel like I was back in school watching some old history video. lol
@rayh4932 жыл бұрын
😆 😆
@johnmorrall27172 жыл бұрын
I worked for DHO, now MTO, in the 60s. It was an exciting time as Ontario was a world leader in highway engineering.
@seanrodgers18392 жыл бұрын
I miss the time when there was world leading things here. We still have well built freeways, you can tell as soon as you cross into Quebec on the 417. Sometimes I wonder if the quality is keeping more from being built.
@Tonyx.yt.2 жыл бұрын
yeah, my grandfather too build Ontario infrastructures back in the 50 and 60's
@DriversofOttawa2 жыл бұрын
@@seanrodgers1839 Drive on the 4-lane highways of New Brunswick to see how roads should be built everywhere.
@seanrodgers18392 жыл бұрын
@@DriversofOttawa The last time that I drove through New Brunswick there wasn't much in the way of 4 lane roads. They get all of that free money from west of Quebec.
@DriversofOttawa2 жыл бұрын
@@seanrodgers1839 It's 4 lanes and 110 km/h from one end of the province to the other. Not as scenic, but great roads.
@andyburch18192 жыл бұрын
Imagine how naive I was as a kid, to think that all the road construction, repairs and delays in Toronto would all be finished some day …and we could just peacefully pass through the city without even seeing a brake light. 😂😂.
@barrysims99062 ай бұрын
The day they opened the Don Vally PKW with the yellow street lights was like being in the future. Dad took us all for an inaugual trip.
@anthonymorris50842 ай бұрын
I remember the night time post cards of the DVP. Very cool.
@ECLynnАй бұрын
My dad did too. I had forgotten about the yellow lights.
@Sgt_Glory9 күн бұрын
I think those were sodium lights, that's the reason they were yellow
@colinjohnston57342 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1996 and honestly wish I was born in 1966. Life seems so much better back then. I make 70k an year and can’t even dream to buy in Ottawa or back home in Kingston now.
@seanrodgers18392 жыл бұрын
I was born in 66. Couldn't have wished for things to be any different.
@Daniel-ru3dq2 жыл бұрын
Come to India
@cluman12 жыл бұрын
I'm always fascinated when looking at these videos. I can watch these all day. I would love to take my son in a time machine and visit the 70's and 80's for about a year.
@boonehelm72712 жыл бұрын
I don’t know how I got here, but I love this channel!!!
@peterprincipe4932 жыл бұрын
Love the old cars. Especially the 4 door 59 Cadi at the beginning. What a Land Yacht!!!!!!
@TheEDFLegacy2 ай бұрын
The fact that many of the things shown in this videos are still around to this day, shows how good some of the engineering was back then. A lot of it has been changed or replaced due to age, but generally speaking a lot of it is still standing and is in good condition. The same is true for the GO train cars.
@agt322 жыл бұрын
proud men, strong men, patriotic men built our country
@Waltherppk782 жыл бұрын
Men with freedom . Not far left lunatics changing everything to suit their Werido needs
@paulburley79932 жыл бұрын
@@Waltherppk78 OH I know right!! Those terrible far left weirdos who fought for and finally got Universal Healthcare for all Canadians!! Now they want governments to ensure that all Canadians can have cheap, reliable childcare so their parents can work and earn a decent wage. What are they going to want next? Good care for senior citizens and a strong support system for disadvantaged people who have fallen on hard times? Perhaps a system to ensure children have enough to eat. Those horrible pinko commies and their weird ideas!!!
@MustangFucker19662 жыл бұрын
💪
@boratb2582 жыл бұрын
@@paulburley7993 Moderate Liberals in Canada and those weirdos are two different things. Oh and bro, every communist society on the planet had a slave class to do all the dirty and bullshit jobs.
@jakeistired2 жыл бұрын
@@boratb258 back in the 60s the “moderate liberals” of today WERE the far left weirdos of that time. You numbskulls can’t understand that history is just humanity becoming more left leaning. Conservatives cling to the past
@Supesfan882 жыл бұрын
@StephaneDeschenesCanada2 жыл бұрын
Yes! The suspense is killing me!! What were the car makers pushing for?
@bryankautz8262 жыл бұрын
@@StephaneDeschenesCanada I think I caught "two" just before the sound dropped, which would make sense as in... "car makers where pushing for two in every driveway..." one for mom & one for dad, better sales for them, but more cars on the road at the same time. So you need the infrastructure to start supporting all those extra vehicles. 👍
@matthewkoudys12692 жыл бұрын
@@StephaneDeschenesCanada pushing to undercut the development of dependable public transit.
@omargoalzz2 ай бұрын
@@bryankautz826 I heard "2 in every dir-" before the sound cuts out, so I think he was trying to say car manufacturers were supporting 2 lanes in every direction of traffic on roads (2 lanes north for example 2 lanes south for example)
@reallyrandomrides12962 жыл бұрын
OMG, this is awesome! Great to see how Ontario (and the roads) used to look, and the traffic was so light. I remember going on the Burlington Skyway Bridge MANY times with my mother in the 1970s and 1980s in her '69 Dodge Dart and later her '78 Ford Pinto, before the twin bridge was built next to it (and smelling the fumes from the factories nearby in Hamilton). My mother said the Burlington Skyway Bridge was such a welcome addition, as people no longer had to use the draw bridge, though (before I was born) she said she was afraid to drive it in her '63 VW Beetle after some strong winds on the bridge forced her car into the next lane, luckily there was no vehicle in that lane.
@jayparker962 жыл бұрын
The skyway still blows my little toyota during high winds.. its always stress full but fun lmao
@seanrodgers18392 жыл бұрын
I went over the Skyway in the 70s, but just occasionally. Don't remember the structure, was too young in the 70s, but I do remember the smell, you just made me remember it again. And having fresh cow's milk at a farm near Smithville. We had a 69 Chevy Impala. Sadly my Mum's friend just died a few years ago. I had been going out myself frequently in the last 15 years. Always love going over the Skyway. Amazing all of the stories you get about your own past. I also remember all of the land north of the QEW was still farmland.
@Armlesscrayon2 жыл бұрын
Do you remember her flipping tokens into the collectors , I remember my mom hardly had to slow down to flip the token into the collectors …lol…
@sofiathatcher31952 жыл бұрын
Someone should tell John Tory that’s what the roads are supposed to look like and how fast traffic is supposed to move
@lookingthroughice78432 жыл бұрын
@@sofiathatcher3195 traffic on the highways today have nothing to do with john tory, it has to do with the pathetic liberal government, they fucked up the transportation system.
@snaggletooth70312 жыл бұрын
Thanx for posting,love this stuff,🇨🇦
@OldTorontoSeries2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching! I'll be posting a lot more upcoming so make sure to subscribe!
@seanrodgers18392 жыл бұрын
Yes, this was great
@Baystreetboy19472 жыл бұрын
Super! Thanks for the post.
@exposingproxystalkingorgan41642 жыл бұрын
These old video clips are a good snap shot in past time.
@jimmyjames86112 жыл бұрын
I love that they gagged the narrator after saying “the carmakers were pushing forward two......”
@pierreroy81242 жыл бұрын
Not the same engines, most are new MP40s. The Bi-level coaches are newer versions but similar design. Made in Ontario since then!
@79tazman2 ай бұрын
carmakers were pushing 2 cars for every home
@karimsadredini88752 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your great informative video.
@moef.53262 жыл бұрын
In a way, things were more modern back then, because they were brand new.
@stephenjones53042 ай бұрын
Car models would often change significantly every few years. Yes.
@DokisKalin12 ай бұрын
Exactly so much of our infrastructure and housing in Toronto was built in that exact time.
@scharfvehiclemedia2 жыл бұрын
What an interesting film! Very cool to see the work that shaped our great province
@bradbates23392 жыл бұрын
We can't help but wonder why audio in the last portion was censored. It seems to suggest automakers were pushing car sales (but why wouldn't they?) and shots of GO transit should remind that's what is needed now more than expanding highways.
@philwoodward50692 жыл бұрын
Of course they push car sales. That's legitimate. What's more questionable is pushing: - road building at public expense (which directly subsidises their business model); - de-funding of mass transit; and - zoning laws that force construction of large numbers of homes where people have plenty of space to park their cars but no amenities within comfortable walking distance, in neighbourhoods where the roads are a deathtrap for cyclists and transit is poor or non-existent. That's why the GTA is choked up with cars. It doesn't have to be like that. Look at Amsterdam.
@writerpatrick2 жыл бұрын
There could have been a music copyright issue with YT. Or their audio just failed.
@sheltr97352 жыл бұрын
"Censored"...??? Sheesh! You're looking at a video based on technology from six decades ago. The audio cut out. Drama queen...
@FrankBullitt3902 жыл бұрын
@@ytatyo Thinking people want to walk and bike around in a city that is frozen most of the time is ignorant, cars aren't ever going anywhere up here.
@johnvanderv.42192 ай бұрын
@@sheltr9735 oh stfu, he would have stated that in the description. It's 100% censored.
@Beandiptheredneck2 жыл бұрын
This is so cool 😎 my grandpa ran a cement truck and hauled cement to the tunnel projects in these videos. I've been running the qew every day recently, its cool to see how it looked 50 plus years ago
@PLS.54Ай бұрын
Travelled the 401 many a time until I left Canada in 1968. It wasn’t until 1973 I drove there once again. Have lived in the southern U.S. since 1974.
@lawrencelewis25922 жыл бұрын
At 3:34 where you see the train, bus and streetcars, I live about a 10 minute walk from there, up Roncesvalles Avenue.
@funkfunkable2 жыл бұрын
Got my license in 73..great time to drive them highways 🛣 🛣 🛣
@stevenresendes22502 жыл бұрын
Now you in an old folks home
@MikeDS492 жыл бұрын
I agree, unless there was an accident. No Ontario Tall Walls then! Driving the 407 10 years ago, I imagined that's what driving the 401 looked like back in the day.
@reallyrandomrides12962 жыл бұрын
I was born the year you got your drivers' licence! I still remember driving around on some of those highways as a kid in the back seat of my parents' 1960s and 1970s cars. Some I recognize, others I don't, and wow, so much less traffic back then! If people thought there was congestion back then, I can't imagine what they'd think of it now!
@derekhilton88592 жыл бұрын
Canada was just a much better place to live back then. Look at those beautiful cars. They may have broken down or had a flat more frequently back then, but the cars were so much more beautiful and looked different from all the other cars instead of our five colour array of cars today that all look the same ...shitty box-like vehicles.
@lawrencelewis25922 жыл бұрын
@@derekhilton8859 that is so true! If you were in a head-on collision in that beautiful 55 Chevy, the steering column would be pushed into your chest and there you would die like a frog on a hook. If your head didn't go through the windshield, of course because there was no seatbelt to wear. That was common back then. I love old cars, I have three classics but I sure wouldn't want to drive them every day for these reasons.
@patrickninocn22052 жыл бұрын
I remember driving to Toronto from Ottawa as a kid and was just amazed with the 401.
@jamieforbes36612 жыл бұрын
What blows me away is the queensway without the sound barriers and the 401 is half the size and still not jammed with cars!
@DeeDee-hz6wf2 жыл бұрын
Look how clean and crisp it was as well
@DanoFSmith-yc9tg2 жыл бұрын
Funny how it’s all the same number of lanes everywhere, just literally a million times the cars today, it really shows how much of our money politicians have pocketed over the last 50 years.
@sammillis18842 жыл бұрын
@@Ben-ek1fz More people. More cars. More jobs. More taxes. Less roads. Makes sense
@ALuimes2 жыл бұрын
@@Ben-ek1fz Do you realize that so-called "induced demand" is simply demand?
@ALuimes2 жыл бұрын
@@Ben-ek1fz Roads are widened to accommodate increased traffic due to population, not to create traffic
@johnandrews35682 жыл бұрын
Last shot is of the don valley near Lawrence with the train bridge that spans from Railside to the Wynford areas.
@James_Knott4 ай бұрын
I remember when the Garden City Skyway was being built. I took a trip with my neighbours from Oakville to Niagara Falls, when I was around 9 or so and remember driving past the construction for it. I also recall seeing, a few years ago, of one end of the QEW bridge over 16 Mile Creek, in Oakville, from the late 40s. It was just a 2 lane road and someone's mail box was near the end of the bridge. When I was a kid, there were still several level intersections along the QEW, complete with traffic lights. My uncle recalled the "suicide lanes" on the QEW, where one could make a left turn onto a side street.
@drybeer2 жыл бұрын
4:02 Nice to see the stylized TRANSIT letters and the "arrow" after the GO.
@bpicard27862 жыл бұрын
Love the green space around the highways
@daydreamer86622 жыл бұрын
I remember watching the Uncle Bobby show. He always called it the MacDonald-Cartier Freeway. I doubt anyone under 40 even knows that name today. As kids, we often called it the "4-nothing-1"
@Optimistprime.2 ай бұрын
I remember going though those tunnels a lot as a kid. And my grandparents lives just down the street from the Allenburg bridge!
@hervavengill87342 жыл бұрын
Love to watch this there should be more of these types posted . Seems like a very simple time and slower paced. In my opinion much better
@stephenjones53042 ай бұрын
As a senior with a car, I chose to ride a mountain bike most of the time and generally drive less than 1000 km per year. We do have choices and the opportunity to go in that direction. Also no smartphone. It is up to you, and not everyone else.
@brianrussell94192 жыл бұрын
Cool to see KVN , where I worked in the 70s , in this video !
@alexsdb97122 жыл бұрын
Still the real Canada, and still in the long period of potential. That ship has long sailed.
@Zebra_32 ай бұрын
there's potential for winners.
@EmitRelevart2 ай бұрын
🌞Thanks for this 🌞
@christrudell79662 жыл бұрын
Great stuff. Thanks 👍🇨🇦
@OldTorontoSeries2 жыл бұрын
You bet
@andrewpersaud41442 жыл бұрын
Just sucks having to go anywhere today. Can't even visit a simple plaza without having to go through an adventure making a left turn either in or out of it and then parking in the cramped up parking lots
@stephenjones53042 ай бұрын
I am a senior and have been using a mountain bike, rather than the car, for most local trips. Still an adventure, but more control.
@junctiondog8602 жыл бұрын
The soundtrack crapped out about two thirds of the way through?
@stephenjones53042 ай бұрын
A common observation, unfortunately;
@hirakhan17582 жыл бұрын
So pristine wow
@heatherelliott61332 жыл бұрын
So cool!!
@Hot80s2 жыл бұрын
I lived on Greenmount rd in Brampton near hwy 7 in the late-70s it brings back many memories.
@donofon10142 ай бұрын
Around this time I was urban geography class reading several authors on how catering to cars was killing urban centres.
@1AtticusFinch2 жыл бұрын
Love the nostalgia this brings back....
@dudewhoisnotfunny2 жыл бұрын
The sound cuts at the part I wanted to hear the most.
@MisterMister58932 жыл бұрын
0:00 where is that loop complex located? I didn't we know had one of these or has it been demolished?
@josephjarosz90092 жыл бұрын
“Best system of its kind” haha don’t kill me 😭🤣🤣
@mobiledevto2 жыл бұрын
'in the day'. We're too busy arguing to have innovated after it was built.
@cinthia96022 жыл бұрын
Back in the day...
@louiserobinson67282 жыл бұрын
I am from Toronto, I can remember they building the roads. The traffic was lot easier then.
@marks66632 жыл бұрын
When Canada was the country that everybody wanted to come to. Now, look at what it has become. Now people want to leave.
@Dale1C2 жыл бұрын
that must be why its so cheap and easy to rent an apartment in Toronto eh?
@brandonnykyforak2 жыл бұрын
@@Dale1C that’s because of international investors. Not because of so many people wanting to live here. The market is up because selfishness. Literally 85% of landlord that are here are in Ottawa are Asian. (Not with racist intent) but they buy 3/4 houses and then rent them. Meanwhile they don’t even live here.
@saambailee-followtheyellow85142 жыл бұрын
Problem with that statement is there is nowhere to leave to. Like jumping from the frying pan into a fire. Canada was the last refuge in the world. People under distress could come here for a new start. Now, that is all gone. Bringing with them, the reasons they left their homes. Take a look around you. The large port cities. Flooding over into the rural areas. Overpopulation. each one fighting over a piece of processed food. That piece of scrap that once was the freedom to homestead. Now, sold off to the highest bidder. Canada is gone. For the record. Canada is not a place. It is a people. Today, a people that are unable and unwilling to give unless there is something in it for them. I know this out of experience. Life experience. Those which fight to keep what little they have. Against those who fight to keep everything they took.
@marks66632 жыл бұрын
@@Dale1C people are still coming, but unlike in the past, people are now leaving.
@Dale1C2 жыл бұрын
@@brandonnykyforak the housing market perhaps, but that’s my point. The rental market is still crazy. No one is leaving you scared, sad fools
@certainly25094 ай бұрын
A golden age for Canada. Sadly, today that is gone.
@highbrass75632 жыл бұрын
Bless these hard working Men and Women who who, frankly risked their life, to improve our lives in the 22nd century
@somethingelsehere80892 жыл бұрын
In the 22nd century? I think you posted this about 80 years too early! ;)
@ricktalbot86762 жыл бұрын
Damn - any way of fixing the dropped out silent audio?
@eksadiss2 жыл бұрын
Ah, back when canada was a nice place
@itsfissy2 жыл бұрын
Wow the roads were so nice and clean, no cracks/pot holes.
@laszlozoltan5021 Жыл бұрын
because the money that can fix that is wasted by ford on 413 and all the gifts to his pals going to hell
@quinvertolli45042 жыл бұрын
Imagine they put this much time and energy into public transit...
@ALuimes2 жыл бұрын
They did. This was also the era of the subway construction boom.
@michaelhatch19942 жыл бұрын
I can still remember being late for work and at a few minutes after 9:0am was exceeding the speed limit down the Don Valley Parkway. Try that today....:0)
@lvfreeAdventures2 ай бұрын
And now Canada does not have money even to fix a sidewalk 😢 and will be 20 years “renovating” (just painting) Union station
@BeamNGoose2 ай бұрын
just look how pristine it is the land the people the cars....
@North4412 жыл бұрын
Awesome memories
@scotttiger89052 жыл бұрын
time of progress and positivity.
@undeadpriest2 жыл бұрын
sound cuts out. keeep em coming tho lol 👍
@ianbradley22622 жыл бұрын
My dad and my uncle built that they were part of that crew
@steveb.62672 жыл бұрын
Ontario was booming in the 70’s. Can’t figure out what happened. Seems nowadays they can’t finish any road projects that have been started years ago.
@seanrodgers18392 жыл бұрын
they're tied up in red tape of too many kinds
@shahonchen66612 жыл бұрын
@@seanrodgers1839 Tied up with the kick-backs!
@terryhall31952 жыл бұрын
India and China took over.
@emjaydark28115 ай бұрын
Mafia
@EyesonEnforcement9112 жыл бұрын
Funny how the GO Train literally looks exactly the same 🤣
@imdjc42 жыл бұрын
0:20 And here we can clearly see the off ramp to "Inspiration Point."
@imdjc42 жыл бұрын
Even progression back then just seemed so innocent.
@tekkamanraiden60652 жыл бұрын
That overpass at 0:20 is rather unique, what are the cul-de-sacs for?
@ALuimes2 жыл бұрын
Access to houses I assume
@tedforsure8659Ай бұрын
It looks like the old service road interchange in west Oakville. You can see the Bronte Creek bridge in the upper portion of the shot. Back then, Burloak Drive didn't cross the QEW, so if you wanted to get on the QEW (if you lived in southeast Burlington like I did) you had to take the service road from Burloak, east about 2km to this interchange. When they finally built the Burloak interchange, this one was kind of redundant and was gone not long after.
@19hockeyjoey2 жыл бұрын
What happened to the sound 3/4 of the way in?
@timyumichuck92622 жыл бұрын
It was a better time because the population was better and smaller
@user-db6pt7vr3lАй бұрын
And homogenous.
@tek16452 ай бұрын
Sad how there was already so much traffic in this footage. We should've invested more into trains.
@KRColson2 ай бұрын
Sound cuts out around the 3:08 mark until the end. Disappointing. But it's nice to look back at a simpler time.
@steviet22702 жыл бұрын
Ahhh no traffic on those highways , no distracted driving on cell phones .
@cosmocalisse2 ай бұрын
So much better now!
@justinw.74072 жыл бұрын
I'm upset that the other section of the skyway had to have it's arch removed... I would love to see a new one in its place.
@ALuimes2 жыл бұрын
It was second span that was built later and never had one
@LeRoi7152 ай бұрын
Thumb down for no sound.Please fix it?
@JustAnAverageBrad2 жыл бұрын
i remember getting lost in toronto and my dads map was so weird it showed the 401 as macdonld cartier freeway and no one we asked knew what the heck we were asking lol
@mattjames112Ай бұрын
I know whenever I'm driving on the 401 all I can think is "This is the greatest highway ever!"
@RedDevilMoto2 жыл бұрын
Those roads were so barren of other cars!! Man, traveling back then would have been peaceful, even on the major roads compared to days traffic. Taking a long drive would have taken a lot less time!
@andyburch18192 жыл бұрын
I frequently travelled through Toronto with my family in the 80’s…I can assure you it was not smooth sailing. Construction, repairs, road/traffic flow design and clearing of accidents was less efficient and there were more vehicle breakdowns. I would say it was better….but not much. ✌️
@RedDevilMoto2 жыл бұрын
@@andyburch1819 I grew up in a small town in the 70's and 80's. Life was VERY different there than in the city. The only thing i saw or heard of the city was what i heard from others, or saw on tv, until i was an adult and visited Toronto for the first time in 1986, but only for a month. I headed back to the country!
@FrankBullitt3902 жыл бұрын
Thats the way its supposed to be, what happened was they stopped building roads and stuffed millions more people in. Now look at the disaster we have and Toronto is broke as ever, and people think this is good leadership LMFAO
@andyburch18192 жыл бұрын
@@FrankBullitt390 What? Sorry, this comment is just plain stupid. You are in political hysteria like half the world right now
@SWATT1012 жыл бұрын
Ahhh the good ole days...what the ---- happened...
@PhamVans2 жыл бұрын
Back when people actually had to work to be in this city.
@rferguson37192 ай бұрын
Nice to see everything not plastered in graffiti
@penguinpie50562 жыл бұрын
Legend says they're still using those freeways designed for 1950s traffic to this day
@railfandepotproductions2 ай бұрын
Whats up with audio issues
@ECLynnАй бұрын
I remember driving from Toronto to places like Niagara Falls and Fantasy Island, NY. Getting stuck at the lift bridge meant a long wait. Does anyone remember a popup snack stand at the roadside by those bridges, or am I dreaming?
@shem47532 жыл бұрын
All we are missing in new canada is we are missing those greenery and those trees.
@seanrodgers18392 жыл бұрын
No trees allowed near highways now. Dangerous when cars go off road.