Compiled by Peter Coulman
Additional information by Jeffrey Kay.

In 1974, the Borough of York asked that the TTC extend service west from Bicknell loop into the Humber Boulevard area between Weston Road and Jane. This request, among other reasons, made the TTC abandon the ROGERS ROAD streetcar, since the line could be extended west more easily without streetcar tracks than with it.

The TTC initially promised that the extension would be served by trolley buses on the new 63F OSSINGTON service that replaced the streetcars, but the extension of overhead wires never occurred. In the meantime, the TTC established a shuttle service in the form of 48 HUMBER BLVD. It wouldn't be until trolley bus service was abandoned that the route was incorporated into service along Rogers Road.

February 3, 1974

Service begins on the 48 HUMBER BLVD. Bus, operating from the end of the ROGERS ROAD streetcar at Bicknell Loop via west on Rogers, northwest on Weston Road, southwest on Humber Boulevard, west on Alliance to Jane. There, buses loop via north on Jane, and east and south on Dalrymple, returning via east on Alliance, north on Cliff, northeast on Cordella, southeast on Lovain, northeast on Humber Blvd, southeast on Weston and east on Rogers to Bicknell Loop

Service operates at ten minute intervals during rush hours and twenty minute intervals at other times, seven days a week, eighteen hours a day, out of Lansdowne Garage.

May 22, 1974

The west end loop is expanded so that buses run north on Jane, east on Outlook, and south on Rockcliffe to Alliance. Buses no longer serve stops on Dalrymple.

July 14, 1983

Due to bridge construction on Scarlett Road at Black Creek requiring that the 79 SCARLETT ROAD route be diverted, the 48 HUMBER BLVD route is temporarily extended west to fill the gap. From Jane and Alliance, buses run south on Jane, west on Foxwell, north on Scarlett, east on Ellins, north on Jane and east on Outlook, resuming the regular route.

This diversion operated until an unknown date after September 1983. The regular route was back in operation by February 1984, and the September 1983 service summary shows service operating between Jane and Bicknell only.

February 12, 1994

Last day of operation. Service replaced by a portion of the 161 ROGERS ROAD bus route offering direct service to Ossington station.

48 Humber Blvd Image Archive

	Bill Robb caught this picture of Bicknell Loop in July 1974, as passengers disembark from TTC GM New Look 2784 in service on 48 HUMBER BLVD onto a ROGERS ROAD streetcar. This transfer was one reason why trolley bus wires were strung up Rogers Road, as the Borough of York asked the TTC to extend service west of Bicknell Loop to Jane Street. Ironically, the change-over to trolley bus operation did not eliminate the transfer. That would come in 1994, two years after trolley buses stopped operating on 63 OSSINGTON.
	The front of the TTC's timetable of 48 HUMBER BLVD operations, effective September 3, 1985.
	The back side of the TTC's official timetable of 48 HUMBER BLVD operations, effective September 3, 1985.
	Page one of a 48 HUMBER BLVD timetable, effective September 5, 1989
	Page 2 of the timetable described above.
	TTC GM New Look 2986 waits at Bicknell Loop on August 30, 1976. Photo donated by Pete Coulman.