Kingston Bus Terminal

Kingston Bus Terminal
Kingston Bus Terminal
General information
Location	1175 John Counter Blvd.; Kingston, Ontario ; Canada
Coordinates	44°15′36″N76°30′22″W / 44.26000°N 76.50611°W
Owned by	Coach Canada
Platforms	4 bays
Bus operators	Megabus (Coach Canada)
Connections	Kingston Transit
Construction
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	1992;31 years ago
Location

Last updated September 07, 2023

Kingston Bus Terminal is the inter-city bus station in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.^[1] It is at 1175 John Counter Boulevard, adjoining the Kingston Transit head office and bus garage. This location is in the northern portion of Kingston near Highway 401, the main highway across Southern Ontario. The terminal has 4 bays to handle 4 buses at a time. At present, Megabus/Coach Canada is the only bus line that regularly uses the terminal.

Other carriers

Other bus lines such as Rider Express and Red Arrow Motorcoach use the nearby Kingslake Plaza on Division Street south of the 401 (but north of the old bus terminal) as their Kingston stop instead of the Kingston Bus Terminal.

Flixbus uses a curbside stop on Wellington Street between Barrack Street and Place d'Arms.

Bus services

Bus Company	Destinations^[5]
Coach Canada ^[2] (Megabus)	Brockville, Cornwall, Kirkland, Quebec, Mississauga, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Pearson Airport, Toronto-Yorkdale, Whitby

Previous terminals

Colonial Coach Lines initially operated from a garage at Queen and Bagot streets in 1926. In 1931, a new terminal was built behind the Windsor Hotel at Princess and Montreal Streets. In 1947, the terminal moved to a new building off the traffic circle at Bath Road and Princess, which included a restaurant and waiting room. In 1972, what was by then Voyageur Colonial Bus Lines relocated to a terminal at Division Street just south of Counter, close to Highway 401. That building is now the Portuguese Cultural Centre.

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References

1 2 City of Kingston, Getting Around
1 2 "Agents / Stop Locations". Coach Canada. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2015. Daily 08:30-20:00
↑ "Healthy Beat Café". Archived from the original on 13 December 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2015. The Healthy Beat Café is located in Kingston, Ontario in the Coach Canada Bus Terminal.
↑ https://www.cityofkingston.ca/documents/10180/8664501/MAP_AllRoutes-Sep15.pdf/119aa4ec-a273-4da0-a031-51d19a7e6952 ^{[ bare URL PDF ]}
↑ "Safe, convenient, low cost, daily express bus services in Canada and the US". ca.megabus.com. Retrieved 2023-04-05.

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[getting-around-1] 1 2 City of Kingston, Getting Around

[Coach_Canada_Agents-2] 1 2 "Agents / Stop Locations". Coach Canada. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2015. Daily 08:30-20:00

[3] "Healthy Beat Café". Archived from the original on 13 December 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2015. The Healthy Beat Café is located in Kingston, Ontario in the Coach Canada Bus Terminal.

[map-4] ttps://www.cityofkingston.ca/documents/10180/8664501/MAP_AllRoutes-Sep15.pdf/119aa4ec-a273-4da0-a031-51d19a7e6952 ^{[ bare URL PDF ]}

[5] "Safe, convenient, low cost, daily express bus services in Canada and the US". ca.megabus.com. Retrieved 2023-04-05.

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