page_title: Toronto Coach Terminal
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Toronto Coach Terminal / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Motor coach terminal, Bay and Edward streets, Toronto, North Mezzanine, looking west.
context_page_description: The Toronto Coach Terminal is the central bus station for inter-city services in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located at 610 Bay Street, in the city's downtown. Opened in 1931 as the Gray Coach Terminal, the Art Deco style terminal was home base for Gray Coach, an interurban bus service then owned by the Toronto Transit Commission. It replaced an earlier open air terminal, the Gray Line Terminal. The terminal is used today by Coach Canada, Greyhound Canada, and Ontario Northland bus lines.
context_section_description: The building was first opened as the Gray Coach Terminal in 1931, to serve as the terminal hub for the Toronto Transit Commission's (TTC) Gray Coach, replacing an open air terminal that had operated at the same location. The Art Deco building was a two-storey historic building with four platform bays, designed by architect Charles B. Dolphin. It was later expanded to seven bay platforms. The building has been listed in the City of Toronto's heritage buildings register since May 19, 1987. 
  In 1984, the building containing the east bus bays was renovated by demolishing the internal walls and keeping the external north and west walls intact, a process known as facadism. An annex, located to the west of the main terminal building on Elizabeth Street, houses buses using the terminal. A renovation of the main terminal building occurred in 1990 to create more seating for waiting passengers and an upstairs restaurant, which has since been closed  with railings overlooking main floor enclosed with glass.
  The newer west annex was originally built to handle GO Transit bus arrivals and departures but with the relocation of GO buses to the new Union Station Bus Terminal on Front Street in 2003, the annex now handles arrivals for the remaining bus lines, and departures leave from the main terminal, which is rather unusual for bus terminals or other passenger transportation infrastructure. 
  The terminal is owned by Toronto Coach Terminal Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). The TTC managed the station directly until July 8, 2012, when it was leased out in its entirety to bus lines Coach Canada and Greyhound Canada for CA$1.2 million annually.
caption: The north mezzanine of the terminal building shortly after opening in 1931.
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