Timmins Transit

Timmins Transit provides public transportation services to the City of Timmins in north eastern Ontario, Canada.About Timmins Transit 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.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. Schedules & Route Maps

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 Riverside

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.

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:

Timmins Transit Terminal This building, originally the T&NO Railway Station, also serves as Ontario Northland's intercity bus terminal. Address: 54 Spruce Street South, Timmins Facilities: waiting area, wicket, drivers' area, dispatching Coordinates:

Schumacher Address: 41 Father Costello Drive, Schumacher Facilities: waiting area leased from Schumacher Bus Lines Ltd. Coordinates:

South Porcupine Address: 73 Main Street, South Porcupine Facilities: small waiting area, at the Maurice Londry Community Centre Coordinates:

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.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. 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 partially funded by the city.Timmins Daily Press article by Don McHoull on Monday, January 22, 2007

Timmins Transit

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