Brampton Transit

Brampton Transit

Brampton Transit #0601 at Bramalea City Centre on the 1A, in March 2006.
Parent	City of Brampton
Founded	1974
Headquarters	185 Clark Blvd., Brampton, Ontario
Locale	Brampton, Ontario, parts of York Region into Toronto
Service area	Brampton, Ontario
Service type	Public Transit
Daily ridership	70,800
Annual ridership	20,411,022(5.2%)(2014) (approx. 30 million boardings)
Executive Director	Sue Connor
Website	Official Site

Brampton Transit (BT) is public transport bus operator for the City of Brampton in the Regional Municipality of Peel, and within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in Ontario, Canada. Brampton Transit began operations in 1974.

In May 2005, a major upgrade occurred that put more routes into a grid pattern. In 2006 Brampton Transit became Canada's fastest-growing transit system in terms of ridership. Over 10 million riders used Brampton Transit in 2006, marking a 12.4 percent increase over 2005 levels and shattering all previous ridership records for the city. The transit system is headed by Transit Executive Director Sue Connor. In 2010, Brampton Transit introduced Züm, a bus rapid transit route running along Queen Street and Highway 7 from downtown Brampton to York University, along Main Street from Sandalwood to Square One in Mississauga and along Steeles from Brampton Gateway Terminal to Humber College.

Brampton Transit is connected with Mississauga Transit to the south, and routes along main corridors serve features in both cities, such as Sheridan College (Brampton Campus), and industrial, commercial, and retail centres. It connects to York Region Transit to the east via the Queen Street-Highway 7 corridor and Toronto Transit Commission to the southeast. When the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre and York University subway stations open in late 2016, Brampton Transit will have a direct connection with the Toronto rapid transit system.

Steeles Avenue, once the boundary between the former Toronto and Chingacousy townships, is a major Brampton thoroughfare. Route 11 runs west of Brampton Gateway at Hurontario Street, and eastward into Toronto to Humber College's Main Campus. There is a transfer at the college with Route 50, that serves developments in the Gore Road area near the former Highway 50, or Albion Road. In September 2007, the section west of Brampton Gateway became Route 51. It connects with Mississauga Transit at Mississauga Road and Meadowvale Blvd.