Ontario Northland Motor Coach Services

Ontario Northland
Motor Coach Services

Ontario Northland bus departing from the Toronto Coach Terminal
Parent	Ontario Northland Transportation Commission
Headquarters	555 Oak Street East, North Bay
Service area	Hearst to Toronto, via Sudbury and North Bay
Service type	scheduled coach service, bus charter and bus parcel express
Routes	2 regular 3 shuttle
Fleet	23 (2003)
Website	ontarionorthland.ca

Ontario Northland Motor Coach Services is an intercity bus service operated by the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission, a Crown agency of the government of Ontario, Canada.

Ontario Northland Motor Coach Services operates passenger and parcel transportation service between Toronto (from the Toronto Coach Terminal and Yorkdale Bus Terminal) and locations in Central and Northern Ontario.

There are two scheduled routes running north and south between Toronto and Hearst; the Highway 11 corridor, through North Bay and Cochrane, and the Highway 400/69/144 corridor, through Parry Sound, Sudbury and Timmins. All buses have complementary WiFi for passengers which is available wherever a cellphone signal exists. There are scheduled rest stops for passengers every hour and a half or so.

The bus service was suspended when a drivers' strike began on September 29, 2007. The strike left the train as the only public transportation available for many communities; bus service did not resume until December 11, 2007.

In 2012 the provincial government announced the divestment of the crown corporation citing it could no longer subsidize the money losing operation. The government then cancelled the Northlander passenger train service from Toronto to Cochrane. Then premier Dalton McGuinty vowed to keep the coaches running after the Crown agency is sold off (the number of coaches in service has increased to compensate for the lack of the passenger train service) to continue to provide transit to rural Northern Ontario.