Locale Timmins, Ontario Founded 1976 Service types Transit bus, Paratransit | Website Timmins Transit Online Operator Timmins | |
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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.
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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 Westmount 9 Schumacher 16 South Porcupine/Porcupine 31 Howard/Brousseau 32 Lee/Rea South 36 Porcupine Community 37 Riverside-Melrose: service to The Home Depot via Riverside;return via Park Ave & Melrose 38 Melrose-Riverside: service to the Home Depot via Melrose and Park ave; return via RiversideEvening & Sunday service
6 Riverside 7 Park Avenue 901 Porcupine East-West 902 Timmins North-SouthHandy-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, Timmins Facilities: Administration offices, bus maintenance, body and paint shop and storage for the entire bus fleet Coordinates: 48°27′32″N 81°19′44″WTimmins Transit Terminal
Address: 23 Cedar Street South, Timmins Facilities: waiting area, drivers' area, dispatching Coordinates: 48°28′32.3″N 81°19′47″WSchumacher
Address: 41 Father Costello Drive, Schumacher Facilities: waiting area leased from Schumacher Bus Lines Ltd. Coordinates: 48°28′35.5″N 81°18′00″WSouth Porcupine
Address: 73 Main Street, South Porcupine Facilities: small waiting area, at the Maurice Londry Community Centre Coordinates: 48°28′42.5″N 81°12′36.3″WFleet
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.
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.