Compiled by James Bow

February 14, 1999

Because construction on the Sheppard subway was tying up traffic around the Sheppard/Yonge intersection, the TTC decided to break up the 97 YONGE bus service into two separate routes, to improve reliability. Effective on this day, all 97 YONGE buses would operate from York Mills station south, via Wilson, Yonge Boulevard and Yonge Street. 197 NORTH YONGE buses operate north from Lawrence station, overlapping 97 YONGE service to Yonge Boulevard and continuing north on Yonge street to Steeles Avenue, looping via Steeles, Moore Park and Hilda.

Service operates roughly every thirty minutes (every 22 minutes during rush hours) from the opening of the subway until around 10 p.m.

October 14, 2001

With work in the Sheppard/Yonge intersection largely complete, the division of bus service on Yonge comes to an end, and 197 NORTH YONGE buses are reintegrated into 97 YONGE operations

197 North Yonge Image Archive

	An official TTC map of 197 NORTH YONGE operations, effective February 14, 1999.
	TTC New Flyer D40LF bus #7306 pauses on Yonge Street, south of Wilson, bearing a 197 NORTH YONGE rollsign exposure during the early evening of a November day in 2001. As the route had been re-aborbed into 97 YONGE a month before, this was likely a charter. Rob Hutchinson took this photograph.
	TTC New Flyer D40LF bus #7345 operates in service on 197 NORTH YONGE, southbound on Yonge, approaching McNairn and Yonge Boulevard on a bright late winter day in March 2001. Photo by Rob Hutchinson.
	A GM re-build on 162 LAWRENCE-DONWAY patiently waits a Flyer low-floor on 197 NORTH YONGE to allow it a place in its bay. This 2001 photograph is by David Cavlovic.