In the past few years, a new transit centre has been opened, new bus terminals are under construction/in planning, and MetroX routes to Halifax Stanfield Airport and Porters Lake were introduced in 2012-13. Part of a pilot project from Transport Canada, the $20-million system was a success, and more MetroLink routes are in the planning stages. Since the beginning of the new millennium, funding for transit has more than doubled, and the system has been able to introduce new routes and services, such as a MetroLink, a bus rapid transit system started in 2005.
Most of these buses were replacements for retired buses, however, and the system is currently trying to cope with rapidly increasing demand. As a result, the 1999 units no longer carry the International Symbol of Accessibility, while technically the 4 ordered in 2000 still do.įinal Metro Transit logo used until 2014 when the service was renamed Halifax TransitĪfter this, Metro Transit began to prefer New Flyer Industries's D40LF model, ordering 32 in 2002 and an additional 127 in the years afterward. Ironically, the wheelchair ramps on most of LFS's, which were of the telescopic variety, eventually stopped working. Routes 3 and 7 were made low-floor only routes, and route 54 was made low-floor only the next year.
1999 saw the delivery of 10 Nova LFS buses, the first low-floor buses in the fleet, with an additional 4 units in 2000. In addition, no new buses were ordered during this period, which left the system unable to cope with demand.
As a result, Metro Transit is one of only two agencies who own articulated Classics.įrom 1996 to 1999, Metro Transit faced several major budget cuts that left service at a very low level, with many customer complaints. Midway through the second order, MCI's transit bus division was acquired by NovaBus, who immediately discontinued the model after completing the order for Halifax. In 1992, Metro Transit took delivery of seven buses that were an articulated version of the Classic, made by MCI. Except for a brief order of Saab Scanias as a result of a provincial government attempt to create a bus building industry in Nova Scotia, Metro Transit continued to order the Classic until 1996, a year before Nova Bus discontinued the model.
The system was particular to GMDD's buses, and was one of the first agencies to order the Classic in 1983. Although Metro Transit was formed sometime in early 1979, it did not takeover transit operations until early 1980, and continued to operate out of its predecessors garages in Halifax and Dartmouth until the new garage in Burnside was opened in March 1981. The transit system was then run by both cities cooperatively by the Metropolitan Authority under the legal name Metropolitan Transit Commission. Metro Transit was created by the merging of two separate transit systems serving opposite sides of Halifax Harbour, the Halifax Transit Corporation (and Nova Scotia Light & Power Company before that) and Dartmouth Transit Service. The corporate colours then consisted of green and blue. The first Metro Transit logo, used from 1981 until the late 90's featured a green stylized M, as shown on the side of this bus.
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