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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 ,
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. 😂😂.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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!!!
@@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.
@@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
@@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. 👍
@@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)
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
@@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.
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
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"
@@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.
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.
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
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.
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.
... and as soon as 'the best transportation system in the world' was built..... we beat our chests for the next 50 years yelling 'WORLD CLASS CITY' while occasionally yelling 'NOT IN MY BACKYARD' when the government of the day wanted to build more onto it to handle the ever increasing strain and demand.
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.
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?
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!
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. ✌️
@@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!
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
Toronto is the cesspool of Canada in every which way. Canada itself is becoming a cesspool due to the housing crisis, food prices, unavailability of primary care physicians and I could go on ad infinitum. The new generation can't afford a house, they can barely afford an apartment. What a horrific place to live we have become. The music that went along with these clips and commercials are really interesting and nice. We could use a little more of that.
3:00 'congestion was becoming a dirty word in the language...' By now, it's safe to say we've pretty much run out of dictionary to describe GTA traffic
Was it just me or did the sound go off there for the last couple of minutes. Other than that, it was s great video, especially figure out where the locations shown exist today.
the reason its so nice is there are not a zillion people crammed into urban areas that have not been upgraded since the 1960s. Blame govt for not keeping up the expansion.
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)
See those nice big black marks going down the middle of every lane? Those are from the breather lines on engines, dripping oil on the roads. It's crazy to think about how much they just didn't care back then
![Toronto, Canada 1920s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](/img/n.gif)
What amazes me is that GO Transit still uses the same engine, train boxes and even the logo in 2022.
...and mentally Ontario still in 70s....
I just pointed that out lol. I'm a train conductor and notice that too
I noticed that myself. Too lazy to make a new logo? Lol
Those engines have long since been phased out. The last F40PH was retired in 1990.
@@BODUKE3201 To be fair that logo seems to be a simple and timeless design, there really isn't a need for a new one
High employment, affordable houses being built everywhere. Affordable cars. Calmer times. Peaceful times.
Except for it being known as the golden age for serial killers, it wasn't too bad
@@crinkly.love-stick The average person wouldn't have had an nasty encounter with a serial killer by a long shot
@@Ben-ek1fz I think you mean the 90s. The 80s were prosperous after the recession in 1981.
Are you saying diversity isn't our strength?
@@ALuimes tell that to the victims of serial killers
Take me back to those days....when anything north of Toronto was cottage country.
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.
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.
yes
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.
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
Mine was an iron worker. Worked on the cn tower, skydome,Gm plant in oashawa, exhibition stadium just to name a few
I wish I would have lived during these times. Toronto and everything surrounding it looked so much beautiful and peaceful
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.
It was
Oh it was! ❤
No kidding.
Audio cuts out at 3:07 but this was the video I’ve always wanted to watch!! Amazing.
I'm glad it was not my computer lol
Right? what a bummer.
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.
I was born in 66. Couldn't have wished for things to be any different.
Come to India
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 ,
Hitting a little kid with a shoe is not funny. Use your words, mom
@@hpholland Kijk naar de generatie om je heen. Dat is het resultaat van woorden.
@@hphollandIt’s actually quite funny
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. 😂😂.
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.
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.
There could have been a music copyright issue with YT. Or their audio just failed.
"Censored"...???
Sheesh!
You're looking at a video based on technology from six decades ago. The audio cut out.
Drama queen...
@@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.
@@sheltr9735 oh stfu, he would have stated that in the description. It's 100% censored.
I worked for DHO, now MTO, in the 60s. It was an exciting time as Ontario was a world leader in highway engineering.
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.
yeah, my grandfather too build Ontario infrastructures back in the 50 and 60's
@@seanrodgers1839 Drive on the 4-lane highways of New Brunswick to see how roads should be built everywhere.
@@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.
@@seanrodgers1839 It's 4 lanes and 110 km/h from one end of the province to the other. Not as scenic, but great roads.
When people could actually afford a home
You mean before the politicians and banks printed money endlessly and sold us out to china and multinationals.
Exactly 💯 Toronto looks like such a cool city to live in classy and modern only problem it's expensive
You mean before single family zoning and car dependent development ultimately led to the current problem?
I hear u
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.
When Brampton was just a village
Now it's a disaster of a village.
Mass immigration ruined the peace we see in these videos
I remember my dad telling me about this upbeat music constantly playing in the background back in those days
That would be nice for a short period...
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.
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.
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.
I remember the night time post cards of the DVP. Very cool.
My dad did too. I had forgotten about the yellow lights.
I think those were sodium lights, that's the reason they were yellow
proud men, strong men, patriotic men built our country
Men with freedom . Not far left lunatics changing everything to suit their Werido needs
@@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!!!
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@@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.
@@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
Yes! The suspense is killing me!! What were the car makers pushing for?
@@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. 👍
@@StephaneDeschenesCanada pushing to undercut the development of dependable public transit.
@@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)
I love that they gagged the narrator after saying “the carmakers were pushing forward two......”
Not the same engines, most are new MP40s. The Bi-level coaches are newer versions but similar design. Made in Ontario since then!
carmakers were pushing 2 cars for every home
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.
The skyway still blows my little toyota during high winds.. its always stress full but fun lmao
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.
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…
Someone should tell John Tory that’s what the roads are supposed to look like and how fast traffic is supposed to move
@@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.
In a way, things were more modern back then, because they were brand new.
Car models would often change significantly every few years. Yes.
Exactly so much of our infrastructure and housing in Toronto was built in that exact time.
And now Canada does not have money even to fix a sidewalk 😢 and will be 20 years “renovating” (just painting) Union station
The soundtrack crapped out about two thirds of the way through?
A common observation, unfortunately;
I don’t know how I got here, but I love this channel!!!
Wish the audio didn't cut out. This made me feel like I was back in school watching some old history video. lol
😆 😆
At 3:34 where you see the train, bus and streetcars, I live about a 10 minute walk from there, up Roncesvalles Avenue.
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.
@@Ben-ek1fz More people. More cars. More jobs. More taxes. Less roads. Makes sense
@@Ben-ek1fz Do you realize that so-called "induced demand" is simply demand?
@@Ben-ek1fz Roads are widened to accommodate increased traffic due to population, not to create traffic
Love the old cars. Especially the 4 door 59 Cadi at the beginning.
What a Land Yacht!!!!!!
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.
Got my license in 73..great time to drive them highways 🛣 🛣 🛣
Now you in an old folks home
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.
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!
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.
@@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.
Thanx for posting,love this stuff,🇨🇦
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Yes, this was great
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
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.
A golden age for Canada. Sadly, today that is gone.
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"
When Canada was the country that everybody wanted to come to. Now, look at what it has become. Now people want to leave.
that must be why its so cheap and easy to rent an apartment in Toronto eh?
@@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.
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.
@@Dale1C people are still coming, but unlike in the past, people are now leaving.
@@brandonnykyforak the housing market perhaps, but that’s my point. The rental market is still crazy. No one is leaving you scared, sad fools
Still the real Canada, and still in the long period of potential. That ship has long sailed.
there's potential for winners.
What blows me away is the queensway without the sound barriers and the 401 is half the size and still not jammed with cars!
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
Sound cuts out around the 3:08 mark until the end. Disappointing. But it's nice to look back at a simpler time.
Cool to see KVN , where I worked in the 70s , in this video !
It was a better time because the population was better and smaller
And homogenous.
Look how clean and crisp it was as well
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
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.
What an interesting film! Very cool to see the work that shaped our great province
Love the green space around the highways
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.
4:02 Nice to see the stylized TRANSIT letters and the "arrow" after the GO.
Back when people knew which restroom to use.
Colored or non colored
You could have just admired the scenery of the video but you had bring that up out of nowhere...
Canada never had segregated bathrooms.
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.
they're tied up in red tape of too many kinds
@@seanrodgers1839 Tied up with the kick-backs!
India and China took over.
Mafia
I think the GO is still using the exact same trains today.
Nah, they retired the F40PH.
This just makes me wish time machines existed. I hate what Canada has become.
Yup. Toronto has turned into a cesspool with Liberal immigration and spending
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.
You said it pal. Endless liberal nonsense destroyed our nation.
Same thing here in the USA, definitely a better time back then.
Canada was so much better back then.
Around this time I was urban geography class reading several authors on how catering to cars was killing urban centres.
“Best system of its kind” haha don’t kill me 😭🤣🤣
'in the day'. We're too busy arguing to have innovated after it was built.
I remember going though those tunnels a lot as a kid. And my grandparents lives just down the street from the Allenburg bridge!
I am from Toronto, I can remember they building the roads. The traffic was lot easier then.
The sound cuts at the part I wanted to hear the most.
All we are missing in new canada is we are missing those greenery and those trees.
No trees allowed near highways now. Dangerous when cars go off road.
Imagine they put this much time and energy into public transit...
They did. This was also the era of the subway construction boom.
Ahhh the good ole days...what the ---- happened...
Ah, back when canada was a nice place
Funny how the GO Train literally looks exactly the same 🤣
Super! Thanks for the post.
Thanks for your great informative video.
My dad and my uncle built that they were part of that crew
... and as soon as 'the best transportation system in the world' was built..... we beat our chests for the next 50 years yelling 'WORLD CLASS CITY' while occasionally yelling 'NOT IN MY BACKYARD' when the government of the day wanted to build more onto it to handle the ever increasing strain and demand.
Love the nostalgia this brings back....
Last shot is of the don valley near Lawrence with the train bridge that spans from Railside to the Wynford areas.
I remember driving to Toronto from Ottawa as a kid and was just amazed with the 401.
Nice to see everything not plastered in graffiti
carmakers were pushing for two vehicles per household. AUDIO CUT OFF.
ya eh?
those bridge construction workers tossing molten metal across 20 foot gaps while 100 feet in the air is pretty crazy.
Oh the times when we use to borrow from ourselves at 0% interest through the bank of Canada.
That overpass at 0:20 is rather unique, what are the cul-de-sacs for?
Access to houses I assume
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.
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?
Back when people actually had to work to be in this city.
Ahhh no traffic on those highways , no distracted driving on cell phones .
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!
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. ✌️
@@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!
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
@@FrankBullitt390 What? Sorry, this comment is just plain stupid. You are in political hysteria like half the world right now
Back when men were men. Seeing those guys building the skyway tossing red hot rivets to each other.
Sad how there was already so much traffic in this footage. We should've invested more into trains.
Toronto is the cesspool of Canada in every which way. Canada itself is becoming a cesspool due to the housing crisis, food prices, unavailability of primary care physicians and I could go on ad infinitum.
The new generation can't afford a house, they can barely afford an apartment. What a horrific place to live we have become.
The music that went along with these clips and commercials are really interesting and nice. We could use a little more of that.
Record tourism to Toronto this past year. :)
Legend says they're still using those freeways designed for 1950s traffic to this day
3:00 'congestion was becoming a dirty word in the language...'
By now, it's safe to say we've pretty much run out of dictionary to describe GTA traffic
Was it just me or did the sound go off there for the last couple of minutes.
Other than that, it was s great video, especially figure out where the locations shown exist today.
The sound does end early.
the reason its so nice is there are not a zillion people crammed into urban areas that have not been upgraded since the 1960s. Blame govt for not keeping up the expansion.
Bless these hard working Men and Women who who, frankly risked their life, to improve our lives in the 22nd century
In the 22nd century? I think you posted this about 80 years too early! ;)
So pristine wow
Back in the day...
I know whenever I'm driving on the 401 all I can think is "This is the greatest highway ever!"
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)
See those nice big black marks going down the middle of every lane? Those are from the breather lines on engines, dripping oil on the roads.
It's crazy to think about how much they just didn't care back then
That was the available tech of the day, it's not because they "didn't care". What a naïve statement with no imagination.
I lived on Greenmount rd in Brampton near hwy 7 in the late-70s it brings back many memories.
Damn - any way of fixing the dropped out silent audio?
The 401 is the worst thing to ever happen to Toronto
Even progression back then just seemed so innocent.
These old video clips are a good snap shot in past time.
This video today would just be some poor soul locked down in 401 traffic or sitting 45 minutes where the 404 hits the DVP
So cool!!
time of progress and positivity.