Société de transport de Sherbrooke (STS) provides public transit services to

Sherbrooke Sherbrooke ( , ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François River, Saint-François and Magog River, Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territ ...

, the only major city in the

Eastern Townships The Eastern Townships (, ) is a historical administrative region in southeastern Quebec, Canada. It lies between the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands, St. Lawrence Lowlands and the American border, and extends from Granby, Quebec, Granby in ...

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Estrie Estrie () is an List of Quebec regions, administrative region of Quebec that comprises the Eastern Townships. ''Estrie'', a French neologism, was coined as a derivative of ''est'', "east". Originally settled by anglophones, today it is about 90 pe ...

) region of

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, Canada. After the amalgamation of what are now neighbouring boroughs into a regional municipality in 2002, service was expanded to cover the entire city with 41 routes and a fleet of more than 80 buses. STS is owned and operated by the city.

Bus services

Regular routes

Minibus routes

Microbus routes

Express routes

On-demand service (TAD)

Specials routes

Specials Routes are in service 7 days a week, in the early morning or late evening, as a way to serve all the lines with fewer buses. Specials routes' frequency may vary from once a day to once per hour.

Transfer Points

Three points in the city are used for transfers between buses. At the corner of King and Sauvé streets in the Rock Forest sector, routes 17 and 18 are waiting for each other, every time. *

Cégep A CEGEP ( or ; , ; also written CÉGEP and cegep) is a publicly funded college providing general, professional, academic or a mix of programs; they are exclusive to the province of Quebec's education system. A loanword from French, it ori ...

: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 17, 19, 20, 51, 55, 405 *

Université de Sherbrooke The Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS; Quebec English, English: ''University of Sherbrooke'') is a French-language Public university, public research university in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, with a second campus in Longueuil, a suburb on the Mont ...

: 6, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 16, 18, 24, 27, 29, 453 * Carrefour de l'Estrie: 1, 3, 4, 11, 12, 17, 26, 36, 50, 55, 57, 411, 453

History

Chronology:Transit History of Sherbrooke, Quebec
/ref> :1897: Sherbrooke Street Railway Company :1910: Sherbrooke Railway and Power Company :1914: Sherbrooke City Transit Company Limited - began first bus service in 1928. :1952: Voyageur and Service Laramée Inc. :1962: Sherbrooke Transit Inc. - acquired by CMTS :1978: Corporation municipale de transport de Sherbrooke :1985: Corporation métropolitaine de transport de Sherbrooke (CMTS) - extended service to neighbouring towns :2002: Société de transport de Sherbrooke - changed name with the amalgamation into a regional municipality.

References

External links

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STS Route Map

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