Timmins Transit provides public transportation services to the City of Timmins in north eastern Ontario, Canada.[1] 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.[2][needs update]
Services
Scheduled routes
Most of the regularly scheduled routes, like many small cities, connect at the centrally located transit terminal transfer point.[3]
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
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. [needs update]
Several of the buses have been personalized by naming them, just like ship names.[5]
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. [6]
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.[2]
