Roseland Bus Lines        Routes and Service
Roselands  suburban service between the Roselands area of York Township, Mount Dennis and the Junction business district of West Toronto. 
Buses "wyed" at Keele Street and Vine Avenue in the Junction and operated north on Keele and then Weston Road to Lambton Avenue in Mt.Dennis, then west along Lambton to Jane Street and Bexley Crescent to East Drive, the Roselands area.

SERVICE was daily from 6.15 a.m. (10.45 a.m. Sundays) until 12.15 a.m. Trip time for the 5.38 mile round trip was 30 minutes, headway (frequency) was 15 minutes in rush hours and 30 minutes at all other times and on Sundays. This required 1 bus in Base service, 2 in A.M. rush and 3 in P.M. rush.

RESTRICTION: Prohibited from handling local passengers in competition with the T.T.C.
This would be within the City of Toronto along Keele and Weston Road between the Junction and Northland Avenue which was the City Limit.

FARES: Roselands; Prior March 9,1951  Adults:    5 cents (11 tickets for 50c)
                                                          Children: 3 cents
                            After March 9,1951  Adults:  10 cents (3 tickets for 25c)
                                                          Children:  5 cents

Woodbridge interurban service between Weston, Thistletown, Woodbridge and Pine Grove.
Operated from Elmsmere Avenue (between John and King Sts. north of Lawrence Ave.), north on Main Street (now Weston Road), and along Albion Road through Thistletown, then Wodbridge Road (now Islington Avenue) to Highway 7 in Woodbridge with certain trips extended north to Gamble Street in Pine Grove.  On return buses ran down Main Street, east on Lawrence to South Station Street, north to John Street, west to Main and north to Elmsmere.

SERVICE  was operated daily from 6.30 a.m. (8.30 Sundays) until 11.00 p.m. Trip time for the 15.75 mile round trip was 60 minutes, headway was 30 minutes in rush hours, 60 minutes at other times, except after 9.30 p.m. it was 90 minutes. This required 1 bus in base service and 2 in rush hours.

RESTRICTION: Prohibited the handling of local passengers within the Town of Weston in competition with the Town's own service operated for them by the T.T.C.
  

FARES:      Weston to Thistletown;      Adults 15 cents  Children 10 cents
                 Weston to Woodbridge;      Adults 25 cents  Children 15 cents


OPERATING STATISTICS 1951

Route           Annual miles      Passengers               Revenue     Expenses      Profit

Roselands       96,000             506,000                     $38,000    $34,000        $4,000
Woodbridge  102,000             312,000                       65,000      37,000        28,000
Charters and 200,000                                              120,000      74,000        46,000
Special services (school)
Total            398,000                                              223,000     145,000       78,000
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