Richmond Hill Transit

Richmond Hill Transit

Richmond Hill Transit was created in 1960 to provide public transit service in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. It was initially operated by Trailways of Canada Limited, then Travelways starting in 1976 and Laidlaw in the 1980s. Services merged with the Markham, Newmarket and Vaughan transit systems to form York Region Transit in 2001.

RT services were limited due to the size of the town compared to Markham, Ontario and Vaughan, Ontario.

Routes

Richmond Hill's routes are similar to Vaughan Transit as they did not run in a grid like direction:

* 1A Mill Street
* 1C Yonge-Bayview-Elgin Mills
* 2 Leslie-Spadina-Valleymede-Major Mackenzie
* 3 Bayview-Carville-Pearson-Spring Garden-Mill-Yonge
* 4 Newkirk-Yonge
* 5 16th Avenue-Carville-Rodick
* 6 Weldrick-Palmer
* 7 Major Mackenzie
* 8 Bathurst

Fleet

* Total buses: 26

* 1978-1981 Ontario Bus Industries Orion I 1.501 (#504-507) - retired
* 1985, 1987 Ontario Bus Industries Orion I 1.502 (#508-509) - retired
* 1981 Ontario Bus Industries Orion I 1.503 (#510) - Ex-GO Transit #1508, retired
* 1988, 1991 Ontario Bus Industries Orion II 2.502 (#525-#527) access icon|15px
* 1989 New Flyer Industries D40 (#511-#524) - renumbered to #8911-#8924 all in service
* 1998 Champion Bus Incorporated Solo (#528-#530) - renumbered to #9828-#9830, retired
* 1999 Orion Bus Industries Orion VI 06.501 (#531-#533) - renumbered to #9931-#9933, all in service access icon|15px
* Prevost Car Coaches H3-41
* Prevost Car Coaches H3-45
* Motor Coach Industries MC-9

access icon|15px denotes wheelchair access

Facilities

Richmond Hill Transit buses were maintained by private contractors:

* Pacific Western Toronto Bus Lines - Division 1 (Richmond Hill based buses) - since replaced by Miller Transit Limited
* Laidlaw Transit Limited - Division 2 (Newmarket, Aurora, East Gwillimbury and Georgina based buses)

ee also

* Markham Transit
* Vaughan Transit
* York Region Transit
* Toronto Transit Commission
* GO Transit
* Viva (bus rapid transit)
* Aurora Transit
* Newmarket Transit

References

* [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wyatt/alltime/s2z-on.html#richmondhill Transit History...Richmond Hill]
* [http://www.yorkregiontransit.com York Region Transit]


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