Traffic and transportation around Toronto and Ontario in the 1960s-70s(HD)

What a better and simpler time

When Canada was still white flour. Now it’s all Asians, Hindus and other brown shit. Arriving illegally of course

Sound off.

I know whenever I'm driving on the 401 all I can think is "This is the greatest highway ever!"

How come governments had money for massive infrastructure projects like that? Along with building most of the schools in use today, subways, libraries, pools, ice Rinks, etc, without running up massive financial debt? Today, government can't even afford to maintain that infrastructure, and are all financially wiped out.

A lot has changed , but the Go train stays the same

Thank goodness the forefathers had the intestinal fortitude to build the Subway, and the Highways, not tollways. Toronto could not have grown without them, particularly the 401. Had they waited until the 1990s they couldn’t have afforded all the infrastructure. Many Cities around the world are finding out the hard way like Melbourne. The Subway in Toronto has been running to and from the Airport for many years, and is covering the whole city today, as 5he built it, section by section non stop. While Victoria is being strangled by the cost to run the rail a few miles to Tullamarine. Too little to late, thanks to Desperate Dan and 5he Labor Party both State and Federal. Great example that it doesn’t get cheaper by delaying what is necessary today. .

When Toronto didn't suck the way it does now.

And then for the next 50 years after 1975 we did nothing

This is when living in Ontario was great. Now we have no housing,and people can't afford to eat, but we have a government that sends money to third world countries. Today Ontario has an immigration problem, a drug problem, useless protests, people with pronouns and more than one gender, people thinking they're animals, all history trying to be erased and a government that is wiping out some of the greatest farmland to line their pockets. It would be nice to go back in time to when it was a simpler life, yes we had problems back then but nothing like we have today.

You could walk anywhere and not a thought of being accosted or assaulted in any way. Life was good.

Wow traffic on the 401 actually moving 🤯😂

This was a glorious time before the Trudeau @ssholes destroyed our country with unlimited coloured immigration.

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.

Immigration has a wild effect on infrastructure.

Around this time I was urban geography class reading several authors on how catering to cars was killing urban centres.

RIP

that's why economic growth and population growth are scams.

pretty funny how GO has the exact same logo and passenger carts on trains to this day in 2024

Nice to see everything not plastered in graffiti

I was born in the early 1970’s. And right up until the end of the 1980’s, Toronto WAS a very special place to be in the world! 😀

I would not trade my childhood for ANYTHING … of course, and this does need to be said, if only once. Canada as a whole, which was less than 20 million people, was about 90%-95% White European Caucasian back then.

Canada was not perfect, we had crime, including horrifying depravity, seldom. But Canada did not experience the complete and utter social and political CHAOS that is infecting and affecting the very moral fabric of my country right now. For a myriad of reasons too numerous to explain here.

All that I can do is pray to The Lord God for guidance. And to have faith in Him that there IS a reason that all of these changes have occurred. And to depend on God to take care of and protect us from Satan and the evils of this world.

Plus, this life is temporary. Our eternal home is with God and Jesus in Heaven! 🙌

I’m watching this in mid 2024 and wondering where we lost the plot….

is this tunnel still operational? where is it?

And no protests to block traffic

Amazing how much Toronto has been allowed to rot.

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.

This is when Canada was at its richest and most prosperous. People could afford homes, and jobs paid well. Taxes were reasonable, and social services were delivered efficiently. Canada was cohesive and had a purpose in the world. How we have fallen since.

While I'm grateful for the personal freedoms that exist in the 21st century it must have been so optimistic living at a time that was constantly building forward.

So much better now!

Wow, what a place to be. Sure looked beautiful. Check out hamilton, unbelievable. I need a time machine. Not even to the 70s, the 90s would be fine too.

Back when canada was white

The 50s, 60s and 70s was peak Canadian infrastructure boom time, projects were starting and finishing left and right. Highways were built without red tape, corruption or liberalism that literally cancels any big project we undertake now. Sadly since the 80s Canada has been falling behind to pretty much most other developed nations who kept the race for better infrastructure going. It's still a good country mind you, just no longer at its peak.

All these people are no more, since its 60+ years ago.

Sad how there was already so much traffic in this footage. We should've invested more into trains.

Oh god, so the 401 was always a disaster, why did they keep expanding it? Investing more in transit and trains would have made it obselete

And now Canada does not have money even to fix a sidewalk 😢 and will be 20 years “renovating” (just painting) Union station

Yes lot 400 series highways since then be built on Trans Canada highway and live close to even famous Highway 2 of Emergency Detour Route!

When White was not a slur

No Palestinian protests. Life was good.

Back when Canada was Canada, not Punjabistan

When Brampton was just a village

World Class... LMAO, how times have degenerated

And no migrants

How come this country sucks now?

🌞Thanks for this 🌞

Just one more lane bro. We're going to fix traffic, I swear.

The 401 is the worst thing to ever happen to Toronto

2024 and Vancouver still hasn’t caught up to 1950s Toronto infrastructure levels