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RSS FeedsTTC bus driver retires after 42 years on the road
(The Star Food)

 
 

23 march 2017 00:08:50

 
TTC bus driver retires after 42 years on the road
(The Star Food)
 


After 42 years working evenings, TTC bus driver Al Nywening is calling it a night. “I’m ready for retirement,” Nywening said shortly before heading out for his last shift Tuesday, a 5:55 p.m. to 1:45 a.m. on North York’s 125 Drewry route. “I’m not really going to miss the job at all, (but) I think I’ll miss a few of the people.” Nywening started with the TTC in February 1975 — when Pierre Trudeau was prime minister and David Crombie was mayor of Toronto — less than a week after applying to a driver’s ad he saw in the newspaper. The hiring manager told Nywening to get a haircut — he had shoulder-length hair back then — and to come back Monday morning. “So I came back, I had a haircut, and the guy says, ‘I thought I told you to get a haircut,’ ” Nywening recalled. “He sent me back (to get it cut shorter). That’s what it was like then.”Nywening got his start on the 7 Bathurst route — evening shift, because he’s a night owl — and stuck with it for the better part of the next three decades, trying out about 10 other routes in between before settling on Drewry as his next steady ride about nine years ago. His last official day was Wednesday with his colleagues throwing him a goodbye ceremony.“I’ve seen children born and I’ve seen those same children have children over the years because I spent over 30 years on Bathurst St.,” he said. “That’s kind of unique.”In that time, he got married to Joyce and had three children of his own. Along with a handful of other family members, including two grandchildren, they hopped on Nywening’s bus for several loops Tuesday night to commemorate the end of his career.“We thought it was the last chance (to ride) after 42 years of driving, so it’s a big, big moment to celebrate,” said Nywening’s d ...


 
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