Richmond Hill Transit was created in 1960 to provide public transit service in Richmond Hill,

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, Canada. It was initially operated by Trailways of Canada Limited, then Travelways starting in 1976 and

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in the 1980s. Services merged with the Markham, Newmarket and

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transit systems to form

York Region Transit York Region Transit (YRT) is the public transit operator in York Region, Ontario, Canada. Its headquarters are in Richmond Hill, at 50 High Tech Road. YRT operates 65 full-time, rush hour and limited routes, 35 school services, and six Viva bu ...

in 2001. Richmond Hill Transit services were limited due to the size and geography of the town when compared to transit operations in adjacent Markham and Vaughan.

Routes

Richmond Hill's routes were similar to Vaughan Transit as they did not run in a grid like direction: * 1A Mill Pond * 1C Beverly Acres * 2 Newkirk * 3 Trench * 4A/C Oak Ridges * 5 16th Avenue * 6 Weldrick * 7 Major Mackenzie * 8 Bathurst When Richmond Hill Transit merged with other transit systems to form York Region Transit, an "8" was added to all of then-Richmond Hill's route numbers to avoid having duplicate bus route number with other transit systems (e.g. 1A Mill Street becomes 81A Mill Street). This numbering system stands after the merge.

Fleet

* Total buses: 26 * 1978–1981

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2.502 (#525-#527) * 1989

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D40 (#511-#524) – renumbered to #8911-#8924 retired 2009 * 1998

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Solo (#528-#530) – renumbered to #9828-#9830, retired * 1999 Orion Bus Industries

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06.501 (#531-#533) – renumbered to #9931-#9933, retired in 2013 *

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Coaches H3-41 * Prevost Car Coaches H3-45 *

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MC-9 denotes wheelchair access

Facilities

Richmond Hill Transit buses were maintained by private contractors: * Pacific Western Toronto Bus Lines – Division 1 (Richmond Hill based buses) – since replaced by Miller Transit Limited * Laidlaw Transit Limited – Division 2 (Newmarket, Aurora, East Gwillimbury and Georgina based buses)

References

Notes

Transit History...Richmond Hill

York Region Transit
{{s-end Transport in Richmond Hill, Ontario Transit agencies in Ontario York Region Transit

Routes

Fleet

Facilities

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References

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