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Transit Windsor
Transit Windsor provides public transportation in the city of Windsor, Ontario, Canada as well as LaSalle, Essex, Kingsville, Amherstburg and Leamington and serves more than 6 million passengers each year (6.72 million in 2017), covering an area of 310 km2 (120 sq mi) and a population of 235,000. The Windsor International Transit Terminal neighbours with the Windsor International Aquatic and Training Centre.
The predecessor of Transit Windsor was the Sandwich, Windsor and Amherstburg Railway (SW&A) which operated streetcars and interurbans until 1939, when it fully converted to bus operation. The company was renamed to Transit Windsor in 1977.
Until 2025, the agency also operated an international route serving Detroit in the United States via the Detroit–Windsor Tunnel.
Transit Windsor was started on November 1, 1977 with 90 transit buses, one double-decker bus from England, three highway coaches, and two suburban buses. Before 1977, the company was called the Sandwich, Windsor & Amherstburg Railway Company or the "SW&A".
The earliest ancestor of the SW&A (and thus, Transit Windsor) is the Sandwich and Windsor Passenger Railway Company, which was officially incorporated on March 2, 1872 and operated from July 20, 1874 onwards. On March 3, 1880, it was operated under foreclosure by Mr. A. J. Kennedy, who re-incorporated it as the SW&A on June 25, 1887. During this period, the SW&A was using horse-drawn streetcars. In Autumn of 1877 to May 1878, the SW&A experimented with using steam dummy railway propulsion for its streetcar and interurban services, before switching to electric power on a full-time basis, from August 15, 1891, until May 6, 1939.
From August 31, 1901 to March 31, 1920, the SW&A was under ownership of the Detroit United Railway, when the local municipalities (the cities of Windsor and East Windsor, the towns of La Salle, Riverside, Tecumseh, Amherstburg, Ojibway, Sandwich, and Walkerville, and the townships Sandwich East and Sandwich West) purchased it back from them to retain it as a municipal operation. A result of this sale was the SW&A switching to electric streetcars, though the company began phasing out streetcars (electric and steam) during the 1930s and began using motorbuses. While under municipal ownership, it was operated by the Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario from April 1, 1920 until September 22, 1934 under their "Hydro-Electric Railways: Essex District" division.
At its apex, the SW&A rail operations had a grid of streetcar lines within Windsor along east-west streets: University Avenue, Wyandotte Street, College Avenue, Erie Street, Seminole Street, Tecumseh Road, and north-south streets: Ouellette Avenue, Parent Avenue, Lincoln Road. Interurban streetcars ran from Windsor to Tecumseh, Amherstburg, Essex, Kingsville and Leamington.
Electric trolleybuses were introduced on May 4, 1922, but were withdrawn on January 10, 1926, with the arrival of their replacements, the motorbuses. During the Great Depression, the SW&A withdrew its buses from regular service to save on operations costs, becoming purely trolley and interurban in service from 1931 until March 21, 1938, when buses returned and the interurban and trolley lines started being decommissioned.
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Transit Windsor
Transit Windsor provides public transportation in the city of Windsor, Ontario, Canada as well as LaSalle, Essex, Kingsville, Amherstburg and Leamington and serves more than 6 million passengers each year (6.72 million in 2017), covering an area of 310 km2 (120 sq mi) and a population of 235,000. The Windsor International Transit Terminal neighbours with the Windsor International Aquatic and Training Centre.
The predecessor of Transit Windsor was the Sandwich, Windsor and Amherstburg Railway (SW&A) which operated streetcars and interurbans until 1939, when it fully converted to bus operation. The company was renamed to Transit Windsor in 1977.
Until 2025, the agency also operated an international route serving Detroit in the United States via the Detroit–Windsor Tunnel.
Transit Windsor was started on November 1, 1977 with 90 transit buses, one double-decker bus from England, three highway coaches, and two suburban buses. Before 1977, the company was called the Sandwich, Windsor & Amherstburg Railway Company or the "SW&A".
The earliest ancestor of the SW&A (and thus, Transit Windsor) is the Sandwich and Windsor Passenger Railway Company, which was officially incorporated on March 2, 1872 and operated from July 20, 1874 onwards. On March 3, 1880, it was operated under foreclosure by Mr. A. J. Kennedy, who re-incorporated it as the SW&A on June 25, 1887. During this period, the SW&A was using horse-drawn streetcars. In Autumn of 1877 to May 1878, the SW&A experimented with using steam dummy railway propulsion for its streetcar and interurban services, before switching to electric power on a full-time basis, from August 15, 1891, until May 6, 1939.
From August 31, 1901 to March 31, 1920, the SW&A was under ownership of the Detroit United Railway, when the local municipalities (the cities of Windsor and East Windsor, the towns of La Salle, Riverside, Tecumseh, Amherstburg, Ojibway, Sandwich, and Walkerville, and the townships Sandwich East and Sandwich West) purchased it back from them to retain it as a municipal operation. A result of this sale was the SW&A switching to electric streetcars, though the company began phasing out streetcars (electric and steam) during the 1930s and began using motorbuses. While under municipal ownership, it was operated by the Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario from April 1, 1920 until September 22, 1934 under their "Hydro-Electric Railways: Essex District" division.
At its apex, the SW&A rail operations had a grid of streetcar lines within Windsor along east-west streets: University Avenue, Wyandotte Street, College Avenue, Erie Street, Seminole Street, Tecumseh Road, and north-south streets: Ouellette Avenue, Parent Avenue, Lincoln Road. Interurban streetcars ran from Windsor to Tecumseh, Amherstburg, Essex, Kingsville and Leamington.
Electric trolleybuses were introduced on May 4, 1922, but were withdrawn on January 10, 1926, with the arrival of their replacements, the motorbuses. During the Great Depression, the SW&A withdrew its buses from regular service to save on operations costs, becoming purely trolley and interurban in service from 1931 until March 21, 1938, when buses returned and the interurban and trolley lines started being decommissioned.
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