West End Transit Terminal To Move

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The current west Windsor bus depot as seen on Google Streetview.

The west end terminal for Transit Windsor will be moving to Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare.

The terminal has been located at the corner of College Avenue and Brock Street since it moved off of Mill Street in 1998.

The 12,500 square foot site accommodates a six bus bay platform, bus shelters and parking, and is a west end transfer point for the Crosstown 2, Transway 1C, Central 3 and South Windsor 7.

Also included was space at the former College Avenue Community center that served as a break room for bus operators. In late 2014, Transit Windsor was advised that Transit Windsor would be required to vacate that space as Windsor-Essex Community Health Centre’s Sandwich Community Health Centre.

As an interim measure, Transit Windsor set up a trailer for its operators as it searched for a new location to enhance service.

Discussions then took place with Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare Hospital regarding the possibility of locating the west end transit terminal there.

This would see the construction of bus bays, pedestrian platform with shelters, and provisions for a room located inside the hospital to accommodate transit operators for their breaks and lunches.

Administration says that there are many benefits to this location which include better route connectivity, continued revitalization of the area and providing direct access to healthcare to patients, visitors and staff. The facility would also allow for passengers with longer layover times to use the hospital facility as an indoor waiting area, complete with cafe.

The location would cost the city $1 a year.

Site plans were drawn up and the plan was presented to City Council Monday evening, where several west end residents spoke out against the proposed move.

Some hoped to fix up the current location, and other feared the loss of service to the current neighborhood the terminal is in.

Transit Windsor officials said that the new location would actually enhance service, and that a bus stop would still remain at Collage Avenue and Brock and that the move would actually see some wait times reduces on cretin routes.

Ward two Councillor Fabio Costante looked to defer a decision until the transit service delivery review was completed this fall, but that motion did not pass, so council then voted to proceed with the planned new location.

Work should start this spring.