Brantford Transit

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Brantford Transit
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Founded1940
Headquarters64 Darling St., Brantford, ON
Service area Brantford, Ontario
Service type bus service
Routes9 regular routes plus industrial and school services
Fleet29 [1]
Operator City of Brantford
Website Brantford Transit

Brantford Transit is a public transit service serving Brantford, Ontario, Canada. It operates bus service for almost 1.3 million passengers per year.

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Services

Regular routes operate on a half-hour schedule from the downtown terminal.

Additional school service is provided to Assumption College, Brantford Collegiate Institute, North Park, Pauline Johnson, St. John's, Tollgate Technological Skills Centre, and Wilfrid Laurier University.

Brantford Transit connects with regional transit and intercity services at the Brantford Transit Terminal, where GO Transit bus route 15 connects the city to stops in Hamilton before terminating at Aldershot GO Station in Burlington. [2]

History

Public transit began in Brantford in 1886 with horse drawn cars which by 1893 had been converted to electric. The City of Brantford took over these operations in 1914. The Public Utilities Commission was formed in 1935 by amalgamating the Hydro Electric Commission, the Board of Water Commissioners and the Municipal Railway Commission. Around 1936 buses began to replace street cars and by the end of 1939 the change over was complete. [3]

During the early 1980s Brantford Transit introduced painted buses other than the normal cream and maroon livery. You could find such things as the Minolta Bus, Parsons, Whirlpool, Zenith to name a few. These rolling advertisements were the forerunners of today's ad wrapped buses you see now in Brantford and other cities.

The fleet colours were also changed to white, black, blue and red.

Fleet

Fleet number rangeYearManufacturerModelEngineTransmission
10081-100842008 Nova Bus LFS Cummins ISL ZF 6HP554C
10101-101052010 LFS HEV Cummins ISL9 Allison EP40
hybrid system
101212011 LFS ZF 6AP1400B
10123-101252012
10131-101322013
10151-101532015
10161-101622016
101808-1018102017 Cummins L9
102105-1021092021ZF 6AP1420B
102201-1022052022
102301-1023012023

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