# Timmins Transit

Timmins Transit provides public transportation services to the City of Timmins in north eastern Ontario, Canada. 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.

## Services
### Scheduled routes

Most of the regularly scheduled routes, like many small cities, connect at the centrally located transit terminal transfer point.

#### 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
    Coordinates: 48°27′32″N 81°19′44″W﻿ / ﻿48.45889°N 81.32889°W﻿ / 48.45889; -81.32889

### Timmins Transit Terminal

This building, originally the T&NO Railway Station, also serves as Ontario Northland's intercity bus terminal.
    Address: 54 Spruce Street South, Timmins
    Facilities: waiting area, wicket, drivers' area, dispatching
    Coordinates: 48°28′30″N 81°19′37″W﻿ / ﻿48.47500°N 81.32694°W﻿ / 48.47500; -81.32694

### Schumacher

    Address: 41 Father Costello Drive, Schumacher
    Facilities: waiting area leased from Schumacher Bus Lines Ltd.
    Coordinates: 48°28′35.5″N 81°18′00″W﻿ / ﻿48.476528°N 81.30000°W﻿ / 48.476528; -81.30000

### South Porcupine

    Address: 73 Main Street, South Porcupine
    Facilities: small waiting area, at the Maurice Londry Community Centre
    Coordinates: 48°28′42.5″N 81°12′36.3″W﻿ / ﻿48.478472°N 81.210083°W﻿ / 48.478472; -81.210083

## 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.
Several of the buses have been personalized by naming them, just like ship names.
* 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.
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.