Timmins Transit provides public transportation services to the City of Timmins in north eastern

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. The system is operated as a department of the City of Timmins, which also owns and operates the Timmins/Victor M. Power Airport. Over the past few years, after a decade of decline, Timmins Transit has experienced some of the fastest ridership growth in the country.Timmins Daily Press article by Don McHoull on Monday, January 22, 2007
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Services

Scheduled routes

Most of the regularly scheduled routes, like many small cities, connect at the centrally located transit terminal transfer point.

Daytime & Saturday service

: 5 Westmount : 9 Schumacher : 16 South Porcupine/Porcupine : 31 Howard/Brousseau : 32 Lee/Rea South : 36 Porcupine Community : 37 Riverside-Melrose: service to The Home Depot via Riverside;return via Park Ave & Melrose : 38 Melrose-Riverside: service to the Home Depot via Melrose and Park ave; return via Riverside

Evening & Sunday service

: 6 Riverside : 7 Park Avenue : 901 Porcupine East-West : 902 Timmins North-South

Handy-Transit

Service is provided by fully accessible minibus for those with disabilities who cannot use the regular bus transit service. As a prerequisite clients must register and be approved to use this service.

Facilities

Office and Garage

: Address: 171 Iroquois Road, Timmins : Facilities: Administration offices, bus maintenance, body and paint shop and storage for the entire bus fleet : Coordinates:

Timmins Transit Terminal

This building, originally the T&NO Railway Station, also serves as

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's intercity bus terminal. : Address: 54 Spruce Street South, Timmins : Facilities: waiting area, wicket, drivers' area, dispatching : Coordinates:

Schumacher

: Address: 41 Father Costello Drive, Schumacher : Facilities: waiting area leased from Schumacher Bus Lines Ltd. : Coordinates:

South Porcupine

: Address: 73 Main Street, South Porcupine : Facilities: small waiting area, at the Maurice Londry Community Centre : Coordinates:

Fleet

More than half of the full sized buses and all of the minibuses are fully accessible vehicles. Over the next few years plans call for older vehicles to be replaced with accessible, low floor transit buses. Several of the buses have been personalized by naming them, just like

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. *34 - ''Spirit of Schumacher'' *74 - ''Spirit of South Porcupine'' *75 - ''Spirit of Victoria'' *79 - ''Spirit of Porcupine'' *80 - ''Spirit of Northern Ontario'' *82 - ''Spirit of St. Eustache'' *83 - ''Spirit of Guildford'' *84 - ''Spirit of North Bay'' *85 - ''Spirit of Timmins''

History

Commuter bus services in the Timmins area were operated by John Dalton from about 1926. Another early company, Hamilton and Dwyer, operated an hourly service from Timmins to Schumacher with a fleet of two buses. Canadian Transit Systems: Timmins, Ontario
/ref> The ancestry of those enterprises is carried on today under the banner of ''Schumacher Bus Lines Ltd'', operating out of the Dwyer building on First Avenue, with school bus and bus charter services, and ''Dalton's Bus Line Ltd'', on Dalton Road, providing similar services. Timmins, in 1975, was the last of Northern Ontario's five major cities to get public transit, which previously had been a privately run service partially funded by the city.Timmins Daily Press article by Don McHoull on Monday, January 22, 2007
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References

External links

Timmins Transit official website

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