Brantford Transit


Brantford Transit is a public transit service serving Brantford, Ontario, Canada. It operates bus service for over 2.5Million passengers per year.
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Services

Regular Conventional Transit Services
operate on a Variety of routes & schedules from the downtown terminal and other transit hubs within the city
  • Regular routes;
  • * A Telephone Line
  • * 1 Eagle Place
  • * 3 Banbury & Brier Park Loop
  • * 4A/4C Mall Loops
  • * 5 West Brant - Oakhill
  • * 7 East Ward - Braneida
  • * 8 Holmedale - Mayfair
  • * 9 Echo Place/ Lynden Rd
  • * 20 Grand river line
  • * 21 Tollgate Line
  • Late night specials Mon-sat
  • * 14 East Brantford evening loop
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.
Brantford Lift
is a Door to Door Para-Transit service for registered people who cannot access the planned route transit service due to an accessibility issue.

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.
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.