T3 Transit is a Canadian

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company operating

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es throughout the Greater

Charlottetown Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, Charlottetown was an unincorporated town until it was incorporated as a city in ...

area of

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, including the towns of

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and Stratford.

History

Founded in 2005 as Charlottetown Transit, the 150th anniversary year of the city's incorporation. It is funded by the municipal and federal levels of government and provides service throughout the city's neighbourhoods. The province of Prince Edward Island does not provide transit funding toward the service. The last attempt at public transit was in the form of ''Charlottetown Urban Transit Systems Limited'' from late 1979 to 1981. The name "Charlottetown Transit" was merely a marketing name and not a legally incorporated company. All buses are owned by the City of Charlottetown but are operated under contract by privately owned Coach Atlantic Group. In February, 2012, Charlottetown Transit changed its name to T3 Transit. The new brand offers services to Charlottetown, Cornwall, and Stratford, as well as in Summerside. Most buses are designed to have the appearance of a

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and were constructed by Dupont Industries (Thomas MVP EF Champlain 1608 LF and HF), as well as MCI Classic buses). The trolley buses are smaller than conventional transit bus designs and must be able to navigate the narrower streets and intersections in the city's downtown core. In 2018, T3 Transit ran a demonstration with an electric bus, an American made New Flyer Xcelsior CHARGE. The company is considering upgrading its fleet in the future to electric buses. If government funding goes through, the buses will be delivered 2020 or 2021.

Routes

Current operations have 13 bus routes running from Monday to Friday, with reduced routes on weekends and some holidays.

Greater Charlottetown

Charlottetown

* 1: Downtown – University Avenue * 2: West Royalty –

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* 2A: West Royalty – Hillsborough – Sherwood * 3A: Sherwood – West Royalty * 4: Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) * 5: Spring Park – Belvedere – QEH * 10: East Royalty * 11: Sleepy Hollow – Winsloe –

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* 23: Kensington – Hillsborough – Upper Sherwood

Stratford

* 7B: Stratford Bunbury * 7K: Stratford Kinlock

Cornwall

* 9:

Summerside

* County Line (''via Transit P.E.I.'') – serving points between Summerside and Charlottetown

References

External links

Official website
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