Greater Sudbury Transit

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Greater Sudbury Transit is a public transport authority that operates buses in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

1 Overview
2 History
- 2.1 Past names
3 External links

[edit] Overview

Greater Sudbury Transit features over 33 buses covering 23 routes around the city. The average yearly ridership is approximately 3.7 million passengers (City of Greater Sudbury, 2006). The Greater Sudbury Transit also provides door-to-door services for persons with physical disabilities known as Handi-Transit.

There are 42 buses in the fleet, which consists of MCI Classic, Orion I and V, NovaBus LFS, and New Flyer D40LF buses. Most routes except the trans-cabs meet at the Transit Centre in downtown Sudbury (the 303-Garson Falconbridge leaves from the New Sudbury Centre), and service is provided seven days a week from 6:30 am to 12:15 am on most routes, with a drastically reduced schedule for late evenings, Sundays and Holidays. Private charters can also be arranged.

[edit] History

Transit services in Sudbury began with the Sudbury & Copper Cliff Suburban Electric Railway (11 November 1915 - Fall 1951). The SCCSER acquired a secondary system, City Bus Lines (1947-1950), in 1950. In the fall of 1951, the company reorganized as Sudbury Bus Lines Limited (1951-1966). This later became an umbrella corporation, Laurentian Transit (Sudbury) Limited (1966-1972), for the joint operation of transit in Sudbury by Nickel Belt Coach Lines, Local Lines Limited, and DeLongchamp Cartage Company. In 1972 the system was operated by the City of Sudbury Community Services Department under the name of Sudbury Transit (1972-2000). Sudbury Transit served an area population of 90,000 (1991) with a vehicle fleet of 42 buses (2000) and employed 103 workers (1991).

The transit system in and around Greater Sudbury today was formed in 2000 during the amalgamation of the cities and towns of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury by combining the existing Sudbury bus service with the surrounding commuter bus lines of Rayside-Balfour, Valley East, and Walden. Thus, Greater Sudbury Transit has an enormous service area for its fleet, connecting Sudbury with the outlying communities of Capreol, Chelmsford, Copper Cliff and Falconbridge, while providing trans-cab service to Long Lake, Richard Lake, Skead, Wahnapitae, and Whitefish.