Timmins Transit
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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.
Several of the buses have been personalized by naming them, just like ship names.
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.
Timmins
Timmins is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada on the Mattagami River. At the time of the Canada 2006 Census, Timmins' population was 42,997...
in north eastern Ontario
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. 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.
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
- 37/38 Riverside-Melrose: service to The Home Depot via Riverside;return via Park Ave & Melrose
Evening & Sunday service
- 6 Riverside
- 7 Park Avenue
- 901 Porcupine East-West
- 902 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, 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"W
Timmins Transit Terminal
- Address: 23 Cedar Street South, Timmins
- Facilities: waiting area, drivers' area, dispatching
- Coordinates: 48°28′32.3"N 81°19′47"W
Schumacher
- Address: 41 Father Costello Drive, Schumacher
- Facilities: 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 Porcupine
- Facilities: small waiting area, at the Maurice Londry Community Centre
- Coordinates: 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
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- Schumacher Bus Lines Ltd.
- Tisdale School Bus Lines Ltd.