Brantford Transit

Brantford Transit

Infobox Bus transit
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founded = 1940
headquarters = 64 Darling St., Brantford, ON
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service_area = Brantford, Ontario
service_type = bus service
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routes = 9 regular routes plus industrial and school services
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operator = City of Brantford
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website = [http://www.city.brantford.on.ca/transit/ Brantford Transit]

Brantford Transit is operated by the Transportation Services Department [ [http://www.city.brantford.on.ca/content/publishing.nsf/Content/Transportation+Services Transportation Service Department, City of Brantford] ] of the City of Brantford, Ontario, to provide bus service for almost 1.3 million passengers per year.

Services

Regular routes operate on a half-hour schedule from the downtown terminal.
* Northwest Industrial Area
* 1 Eagle Place
* 2 West Street - Brier Park
* 4a Mall Link Access icon|15px
* 4c Mall Link Access icon|15px
* 5 West Brant - Oakhill
* 6 West Brant - Shellard
* 7 East Ward - Braneida
* 8 Holmedale - Mayfair
* 9 Echo Place - Lynden Rd.
* Red, Blue & Green Access icon|15px - Evening & Sunday Service

Additional school service is provided to Assumption College, Brantford Collegiate Institute, North Park Collegiate & Vocational School, Pauline Johnson Collegiate, St. John's College, Tollgate Technological Skills Centre, Mohawk College, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Operation Lift provides door to door, low floor specialized transportation service for persons with disabilities. [ [http://comdir.bfree.on.ca/oplift/index.htm Operation Lift] ]

Greyhound Canada operates intercity services from the downtown terminal to destinations throughout southern Ontario.

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. [ [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wyatt/alltime/brantford-on.html Canadian Transit Systems: Brantford, Ontario] ]

During the early 1980's Brantford Transit introduced painted buses other than the normal cream and maroon livery. You could find such things as the Minolta Bus, Parsons, Whirpool, 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

The bus fleet once consisted of a mix of GM New Looks and Classics, Orion V and Orion VII, ElDorado National, Nova Bus LFS and Blue Bird Ultra LF. By 2008 most of the GM fishbowls on the fleet had been retired, with 9824, 9842 and 9725 being the only ones left. The fleet is now mostly Nova Buses.

References

External links

* [http://city.brantford.on.ca/transit Brantford Transit official website]
* [http://www.busdrawings.com/Transit/ontario/brantford/index.htm Drawings and photos of Brantford Transit buses]


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