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 operated by the transportation services department 2 of the city of brantford ontario to provide bus service for almost 1.3 million passengers per year . contents 1 services 2 history 3 fleet 4 references 5 external links services edit regular routes operate on a half hour schedule from the downtown terminal . monday saturday 6am 6 30pm 1 eagle place 2 west street brier park 4a 4c mall link 5 west brant oakhill 6 west brant shellard lane 7 east ward braneida 8 holmedale mayfair with peak hour extension to northwest industrial 9 echo place lynden rd evening 6 30pm 1am and sunday 8 30am 6 30pm 11 west brant oakhill nwia holmedale 12 eagle place west brant shellard lane 13 king george rd brantwood park 14 echo place east ward 15 west street mayfair additional school service is provided to assumption college brantford collegiate institute north park pauline johnson st. john s tollgate technological skills centre mohawk college wilfrid laurier university . greyhound canada operates intercity services from the downtown brantford transit terminal to destinations throughout southern ontario . history edit 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 whirpool 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 . fleet edit the bus fleet once consisted of a mix of gm new looks and classics orion v and orion vii eldorado national nova bus lfs and blue bird ultra lf.the fleet is now mostly nova buses . references edit bus history association 2007 convention report transportation service department city of brantford canadian transit systems brantford ontario external links edit brantford transit official website drawings and photos of brantford transit buses v t e public transit systems in canada alberta airdrie banff calgary edmonton fort mcmurray grande prairie hinton leduc lethbridge medicine hat red deer st. albert strathcona county british columbia 100 mile house agassiz harrison ashcroft clinton bella coola valley boundary campbell river central fraser valley chilliwack clearwater columbia valley comox valley cowichan 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