Brantford Transit is a
public transit
Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typic ...
service serving
Brantford
Brantford ( 2021 population: 104,688) is a city in Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. It is surrounded by Brant County, but is politically separate with a municipal government of its own that is fully independ ...
,
Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central C ...
, Canada. It operates bus service for almost 1.3 million passengers per year.
Services
Regular routes operate on a half-hour schedule from the downtown terminal.
*Monday to Saturday services (6:00am - 9:00pm)
** 1 Eagle Place
** 2 West Street - Brier Park
** 4A/4C Mall Link
** 5 West Brant - Oakhill
** 6 West Brant - Shellard Lane
** 7 East Ward - Braneida
** 8 Holmedale - Mayfair (with peak hour extension to Northwest Industrial)
** 9 Echo Place/ Lynden Rd
*Evening (9:00pm - 1:00am) and Sunday services (8:30am – 6:30pm)
** 11 West Brant - Oakhill/ NWIA Holmedale
** 12 Eagle Place/ West Brant - Shellard Lane
** 13 King George Rd/ Brantwood Park
** 14 Echo Place/ East Ward
** 15 West Street/ Mayfair
Additional school service is provided to
Assumption College,
Brantford Collegiate Institute
Brantford Collegiate Institute and Vocational School, also known as "Brantford Collegiate Institute" or "BCI", is a secondary school in the city of Brantford. It is a member of the Grand Erie District School Board, a medium-sized school board in ...
,
North Park,
Pauline Johnson
Emily Pauline Johnson (10 March 1861 – 7 March 1913), also known by her Mohawk stage name ''Tekahionwake'' (pronounced ''dageh-eeon-wageh'', ), was a Canadian poet, author, and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centu ...
,
St. John's, Tollgate Technological Skills Centre, and
Wilfrid Laurier University
Wilfrid Laurier University (commonly referred to as WLU or simply Laurier) is a public university in Ontario, Canada, with campuses in Waterloo, Brantford and Milton. The newer Brantford and Milton campuses are not considered satellite campuses ...
.
Brantford Transit connects with regional transit and intercity services at the Brantford Transit Terminal, where
GO Transit
GO Transit is a regional public transit system serving the Greater Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario, Canada. With its hub at Union Station in Toronto, GO Transit's green-and-white trains and buses serve a population of more than seven millio ...
bus route 15 connects the city to stops in
Hamilton before terminating at
Aldershot GO Station in
Burlington.
History
Public transit began in Brantford in 1886 with horse drawn cars which by 1893 had been converted to electric. The City of Brantford took over these operations in 1914. The Public Utilities Commission was formed in 1935 by amalgamating the Hydro Electric Commission, the Board of Water Commissioners and the Municipal Railway Commission. Around 1936 buses began to replace street cars and by the end of 1939 the change over was complete.
Canadian Transit Systems: Brantford, Ontario
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During the early 1980s Brantford Transit introduced painted buses other than the normal cream and maroon livery. You could find such things as the Minolta Bus, Parsons, Whirlpool, Zenith to name a few. These rolling advertisements were the forerunners of today's ad wrapped buses you see now in Brantford and other cities.
The fleet colours were also changed to white, black, blue and red.
Fleet
Historically, the bus fleet of Brantford Transit consisted of a mix of GM New Looks, Classics, Orion V
The Orion V was a line of rigid high-floor transit buses available in 32', 35', and 40' lengths manufactured by Ontario Bus Industries (renamed Orion Bus Industries in 1995) between 1989 and 2009. The conventionally powered buses, either with lon ...
, Orion VII
The Orion VII was a line of low-floor transit buses available in 30' rigid, 35' rigid, and 40' rigid lengths manufactured by Orion Bus Industries between 2001 and 2013 in three generations. The conventional powered buses, either with longitudinal ...
, ElDorado National, Nova Bus LFS
The Low Floor Series (LFS) is a series of transit buses manufactured by Nova Bus for North American customers from 1996 to the present. It is produced in 40' rigid and 62' articulated (nominal) lengths with a variety of powertrains, including conve ...
and Blue Bird Ultra LF.
See also
* Public transport in Canada In the month of November 2015 ridership of Canadian large urban transit was 142.7 million passenger trips.
The following is a list of public transit authorities in Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and thre ...
References
External links
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Drawings and photos of Brantford Transit buses
{{Public transit systems in Canada
Transit agencies in Ontario
Transport in Brantford