Jennifer, who attended Scarborough College in the 1970s, talks about the transportation options to and from the College in its early years, including the university-operated shuttle bus that transported students to the different campuses from the 1970s to the 90s.
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There was a shuttle bus for those who wanted to pay as part of their tuition.
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For me, I moved into Scarborough to come here, but I lived at Yonge-Eglinton, that was where I was, prior to coming to school here. So I moved into Scarborough when I came, so I didn’t need that shuttle bus.
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But that shuttle bus, a lot of people used it to go downtown but really it was a bus that took you from campus to campus. It was not the equivalent of a TTC city bus.
0:33
It was a bus took you from this campus to St. George. So it really was a bus for people who were taking, might be taking an extra course down there, whatever. Or if they live close enough to St. George that they could hop on the bus and subway and get to where they live in that area, then they would take that bus.
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But it wasn’t the regular bus equivalent to TTC, which would stop you off at Victoria Park or stop you off at Bayview or whatever that was not the way it ran. It was from campus to campus.