Brantford Transit is a
public transit 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 indep ...
,
Ontario
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, 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
** 9 Echo Place/ Lynden Rd
** 10 NWIA
*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,
North Park,
Pauline Johnson,
St. John's, Tollgate Technological Skills Centre, and
Wilfrid Laurier University.
Brantford Transit connects with regional transit and intercity services at the Brantford Transit Terminal, where
GO Transit bus route 15 connects the city to stops in
Hamilton
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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.
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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
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, Orion V, Orion VII, ElDorado National, Nova Bus LFS and Blue Bird Ultra LF.
See also
* Public transport in Canada
References
External links
*
Drawings and photos of Brantford Transit buses
{{Public transit systems in Canada
Transit agencies in Ontario
Transport in Brantford