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| Founded | 1940 |
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| Headquarters | 64 Darling St., Brantford, ON |
| Service area | Brantford, Ontario |
| Service type | bus service |
| Routes | 9 regular routes plus industrial and school services |
| Fleet | 29 [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.
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]
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.
Historically, the bus fleet of Brantford Transit consisted of a mix of GM New Looks, Classics, Orion V, Orion VII, ElDorado National, Nova Bus LFS and Blue Bird Ultra LF.
| Fleet number range | Thumbnail | Year | Manufacturer | Model | Engine | Transmission | Notes |
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| 10061-10064 | 2006 | Nova Bus | LFS | Cummins ISL | ZF 6HP552C |
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| 10071-10075 | 2007 |
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| 10081-10084 | 2008 |
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| 10101-10105 | 2010 | LFS HEV | Allison EP40 hybrid system | ||||
| 10121 | 2011 | LFS | Cummins ISL9 | ZF 6AP1400B | |||
| 10123-10125 | 2012 | ||||||
| 10131-10132 | 2013 | ||||||
| 10151-10153 | 2015 | ||||||
| 10161-10162 | 2016 | ||||||
| 101808-101810 | 2018 | Cummins L9 |
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