Timmins Transit

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founded = 1976
headquarters = 220 Algonquin Blvd. East
locale = Timmins, Ontario
service_area = Timmins,South Porcupine, Porcupine,Schumacher
service_type = Bus service, Paratransit
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operator = City of Timmins
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website = [http://timminstransit.ca/ Timmins Transit Online]

Timmins Transit provides public transportation services to the City of Timmins in north eastern Ontario, Canada. [ [http://www.timminstransit.ca/new/modules/content/index.php?id=13 About Timmins Transit] ] The system is operated as a department of the City of Timmins, which also owns and operates the Timmins Airport. Over the past few years, after a decade of decline, Timmins Transit has experienced some of the fastest ridership growth in the country. [http://www.timminstransit.ca/new/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7%20Media%20Release:%20Ridership%20Increases%20for%20Timmins%20Transit,%202007/1/23 Timmins Daily Press article by Don McHoull on Monday, January 22, 2007] ]

Services

Scheduled routes

Most of the regularly scheduled routes, like many small cities, connect at the centrally located transit terminal transfer point. [ [http://timminstransit.ca/new/modules/smartsection/category.php?categoryid=1 Schedules & Route Maps] ] : 5 Westmount: to Kaleidoscope: 6 Riverside: to Wal-Mart via Riverside: 6A Riverside: to Home Depot via Riverside: 7 Park Avenue: to Timmins Square: 7A Park Avenue to The Home Depot : 9 Schumacher: to Gold Centre (additional service by route 16): 10 Melrose: to Lonergan/Denise: 10A Melrose: to Timmins Square & Wal-Mart via Melrose: 16 S. Porcupine/Porcupine: to Porcupine via South Porcupine : 31 Howard/Brousseau: to the Hospital & Brousseau Avenue: 32 Lee/Rea South: to Pine South & Rea South: 36 Porcupine Community: localized, Monday to Friday midday service: 37 Riverside-Melrose: service to The Home Depot (see routes 10 & 6): 38 Melrose-Riverside: Saturday service to The Home Depot (see route 10): 901 Evening/Sunday Route: serves Wal-Mart, Timmins Square, Melrose, Downtown, Schumacher, South Porcupine and Porcupine: 902 Evening/Sunday Route: serves the north and south sides of Timmins, the Hospital and Kaleidoscope

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.

Facilities

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: coord|48|27|32|N|81|19|44|W

Timmins Transit Terminal

: Address: 23 Cedar Street South, Timmins: Facilities: waiting area, drivers' area, dispatching : Coordinates: coord|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: coord|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: coord|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. [ [http://www.timminstransit.ca/new/modules/xoopsgallery/albums.php Timmins Transit Fleet Gallery] ]
*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. [ [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wyatt/alltime/s2z-on.html#timmins Canadian Transit Systems: Timmins, Ontario] ]

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. [http://www.timminstransit.ca/new/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7%20Media%20Release:%20Ridership%20Increases%20for%20Timmins%20Transit,%202007/1/23 Timmins Daily Press article by Don McHoull on Monday, January 22, 2007] ]

Other bus lines

The city is also served by several private companies, providing school, charter and intercity bus services. [ [http://directory.timminsdirect.info/Tourism_Lodging/Automotive_Rentals_Charters/Bus_Lines/ Bus Lines in Timmins] ]
* Dalton's Bus Line Ltd.
* Kamiskotia Bus Lines
* Ontario Northland Motor Coach Services
* Schumacher Bus Lines Ltd.
* Tisdale School Bus Lines Ltd.

References

External links

* [http://www.timminstransit.ca Timmins Transit official website]
* [http://www.busdrawings.com/Transit/ontario/Timmins/index.htm Drawings and photos of Timmins Transit buses]