Peterborough Transit Makes Temporary Seasonal Changes To Route Schedules

Peterborough Transit is making a temporary seasonal adjustment to some route schedules starting Sunday to reflect reduced ridership during the summer.

Photo by Luke Best.

The adjustments mostly affect some early morning and evening service along with reduced frequency on some mid-day trips on some routes. Times for certain trips on Route 2 Chemong and Route 7 Lansdowne will be adjusted to improve connections with other service.

Route 2 Chemong

Times on Route 2 Chemong trips have been adjusted to improve connections with Route 6 Sherbrooke at the Peterborough Terminal.

  • Southbound trips departing from the Terminal before noon and after 6:30 p.m. will operate two minutes later between the Terminal and Lansdowne Place.

  • Southbound mid-day trips to the Terminal from Rowberry to Broadway between 12:35 p.m. and 5:55 p.m. will depart three minutes earlier.

  • Northbound trips from Lansdowne Place to the Terminal will operate two minutes later.

Route 3 Park

Weekday morning service will operate on an hourly frequency.

Route 4 Weller

Weekday  service will operate on an hourly frequency:

  • Westbound from the Museum to Parkhill at Chandler between 8:23 a.m. and 1:23 p.m.

  • Eastbound from Parkhill at Chandler to the Museum between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m

Route 5 The Parkway

Weekday service will operate on hourly frequency:

  • Southbound from the Terminal to Fleming College between 8:45 a.m. and 1:45 p.m.

  • Northbound from Fleming College to the Terminal between 9:10 a.m. and 2:10 p.m.

Route 7 Lansdowne

Weekday morning and evening service will operate on an hourly frequency between Willowcreek Plaza and Trent University at Gzowski College. Service along Lansdowne Street between Fleming College and Willowcreek Plaza will continue on a 30-minute frequency.

The weekday trip from Trent Gzowski at 5:05 p.m. will operate up to five minutes earlier through some intermediate locations to Fleming College.

The weekday trip from Willowcreek Plaza to Fleming College at 5:40 p.m. will depart five minutes earlier at 5:35 p.m.

Route 9 Parkhill

Weekday morning and evening service will operate on an hourly frequency.

Route schedules will be updated in September when ridership is expected to increase.

There will be no changes to the Community Bus schedules. On-demand service continues to be available throughout the summer.

Customers with questions on the route schedules can contact Peterborough Transit directly by phone at 705-745-0525 or by email at transitoperations@peterborough.ca.

Service Updates

Customers are encouraged to check their schedules and stay up-to-date with adjustments to Transit routes, including weather delays, service interruptions and cancellations:

  • Follow Peterborough Transit on Twitter: @ptbo_transit

  • Subscribe to text/SMS or email updates through MyBEAT

  • Visit the service alerts webpage for real-time Twitter Timeline updates on peterborough.ca/TransitServiceAlerts

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