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Halifax Transit is a Canadian public transport agency operating buses and ferries in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM). Formerly known as Metro Transit, the agency announced on July 15, 2014, that it was changing its name to "Halifax Transit" in reflection of the city's new brand.〔(Halifax Transit brand unveiled ) The Chronicle Herald〕 Owned by the municipality, Halifax Transit's operations area is the urban core in the western part of the municipality, namely the Halifax and Dartmouth Metropolitan Areas, and the adjacent outlying neighbourhoods and communities. It is the largest transit agency in Atlantic Canada, carrying 27 million passengers in fiscal year 2012/13.〔Metro Transit – (Proposed 2014/2015 Metro Transit Budget and Business Plan )〕 ==History== Halifax was among first cities in Canada to be served by an integrated public transportation system, predated only by Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City.〔Wyatt, D.A. (2015). All-time list of Canadian transit systems: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wyatt/alltime/〕 While private omnibus services are known to have begun in the city at least as early as 1854, the roots of Halifax Transit date back to June 11, 1866 and the start-up of the Halifax City Railroad Company (HCR). HCR began operations with five horse-drawn trams on rails that stretched from the corner of Barrington Street and Inglis Street in the south end, to the city’s first railway station, near the corner of Duffus Street and Campbell Road (now Barrington Street) in the north end.〔Canadian Railroad Historical Association Bulletin 17 (1954) http://www.exporail.org/can_rail/Canadian%20Rail_CRHA_Bulletin_no17_April_1954.pdf〕 Notwithstanding a ten-year hiatus, horse-drawn street railway services continued in Halifax until April 1896 when the system, now operated by the Halifax Electric Tramway Company, completed the conversion to electric-powered operation. The street railway served Halifax until March 1949, when the war-worn trams were replaced by "trackless" electric trolley coaches.〔Cunningham, D. and Artz, D. (2009). The Halifax Street Railway: 1866-1949. Halifax: Nimbus〕 The bright yellow trolleys, operated by utility Nova Scotia Light and Power, plied city streets exclusively until 1963, when they were supplemented by diesel buses for the first time. The system became all-diesel on January 1, 1970, the same day the City of Halifax took over the operation.〔Leger, P.A. and Lawrence, L.M. (1994), Halifax – City of Trolleycoaches. Windsor ON: Bus History Association〕 A single transit agency serving all of the greater metropolitan area of Halifax began operations in 1981. The system was created by the Metropolitan Authority, a common-services agency representing the cities of Halifax and Dartmouth and suburban Halifax County,〔An Act Respecting the Metropolitan Authority of Halifax, Dartmouth and the Municipality of the County of Halifax. Statutes of Nova Scotia. 1978. c. 9.〕 to consolidate the transit operations inherited from four immediate predecessors: Nova Scotia Light and Power Company, Limited (March 1895-December 1969) and Halifax Transit Corporation (January 1970-February 1979) in Halifax, and Dartmouth Transit Service Buses Ltd. (April 1957-February 1978) and Dartmouth Transit (February 1978-February 1979) in Dartmouth. Halifax and Dartmouth transit agencies merged their services to become Metro Transit in March 1981. The system expanded in 1994 to take over the Halifax Harbour ferry services formerly operated by the City of Dartmouth. On July 15, 2014, the agency announced it was changing its name to Halifax Transit in reflection of the city's new brand.〔 Halifax Transit Centre, the agency's headquarters and bus maintenance facility, is located on Ilsley Avenue in Burnside Park, with a satellite garage known as the Rapid Transit Garage also in Burnside Park on Thornhill Drive. In January 2014, Halifax regional council approved a study to look at a major re-design of the city's transit system. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Halifax Transit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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