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Locale
  
Founded
  
1976

Service types
  
Transit bus, Paratransit

Website
  
Timmins Transit Online

Operator
  
Timmins

Timmins Transit wwwtimminstransitcaimagesTimminstransitAcces

Headquarters
  
220 Algonquin Blvd. East

Service area
  
Timmins, South Porcupine, Porcupine, Schumacher

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Timmins Transit provides public transportation services to the City of Timmins in north eastern Ontario, Canada. The system is operated as a department of the City of Timmins, which also owns and operates the Timmins/Victor M. Power Airport. Over the past few years, after a decade of decline, Timmins Transit has experienced some of the fastest ridership growth in the country.

Contents

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Scheduled routes

Most of the regularly scheduled routes, like many small cities, connect at the centrally located transit terminal transfer point.

Daytime & Saturday service

5 Westmount9 Schumacher16 South Porcupine/Porcupine31 Howard/Brousseau32 Lee/Rea South36 Porcupine Community37 Riverside-Melrose: service to The Home Depot via Riverside;return via Park Ave & Melrose38 Melrose-Riverside: service to the Home Depot via Melrose and Park ave; return via Riverside

Evening & Sunday service

6 Riverside7 Park Avenue901 Porcupine East-West902 Timmins North-South

Handy-Transit

Service is provided by fully accessible minibus for those with disabilities who cannot use the regular bus transit service. As a prerequisite clients must register and be approved to use this service.

Office and Garage

Address: 171 Iroquois Road, TimminsFacilities: Administration offices, bus maintenance, body and paint shop and storage for the entire bus fleetCoordinates: 48°27′32″N 81°19′44″W

Timmins Transit Terminal

Address: 23 Cedar Street South, TimminsFacilities: waiting area, drivers' area, dispatchingCoordinates: 48°28′32.3″N 81°19′47″W

Schumacher

Address: 41 Father Costello Drive, SchumacherFacilities: waiting area leased from Schumacher Bus Lines Ltd.Coordinates: 48°28′35.5″N 81°18′00″W

South Porcupine

Address: 73 Main Street, South PorcupineFacilities: small waiting area, at the Maurice Londry Community CentreCoordinates: 48°28′42.5″N 81°12′36.3″W

Fleet

More than half of the full sized buses and all of the minibuses are fully accessible vehicles. Over the next few years plans call for older vehicles to be replaced with accessible, low floor transit buses.

Several of the buses have been personalized by naming them, just like ship names.

  • 34 - Spirit of Schumacher
  • 74 - Spirit of South Porcupine
  • 75 - Spirit of Victoria
  • 79 - Spirit of Porcupine
  • 80 - Spirit of Northern Ontario
  • 82 - Spirit of St. Eustache
  • 83 - Spirit of Guildford
  • 84 - Spirit of North Bay
  • 85 - Spirit of Timmins
  • History

    Commuter bus services in the Timmins area were operated by John Dalton from about 1926. Another early company, Hamilton and Dwyer, operated an hourly service from Timmins to Schumacher with a fleet of two buses.

    The ancestry of those enterprises is carried on today under the banner of Schumacher Bus Lines Ltd, operating out of the Dwyer building on First Avenue, with school bus and bus charter services, and Dalton's Bus Line Ltd, on Dalton Road, providing similar services. Timmins, in 1975, was the last of Northern Ontario's five major cities to get public transit, which previously had been a privately run service subsidized by the city.

    Other bus lines

    The city is also served by several private companies, providing school, charter and intercity bus services.

  • Dalton's Bus Line Ltd.
  • Kamiskotia Bus Lines
  • Ontario Northland Motor Coach Services
  • Schumacher Bus Lines Ltd.
  • Tisdale School Bus Lines Ltd.
  • References

    Timmins Transit Wikipedia


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