Community Transportation - Perth County and Stratford

The County of Perth and the City of Stratford have each received a commitment of $1,449,345 in provincial funding through the Ministry of Transportation’s "Community Transportation Grant Program - Municipal Stream" to establish new public transit for a pilot period from commencement to March 31, 2023.

Perth County, its member municipalities of North Perth, West Perth, Perth East and Perth South, along with the City of Stratford and the Town of St. Marys, worked in partnership to submit the synergistic proposals that will benefit all of Perth County’s residents as one joint project.

The joint project will involve the creation of an inter-regional transit service connecting London, St. Mary's, Stratford and Kitchener. Service between Listowel and Kitchener is also planned. A separate but related commitment will create a transit system to link the communities of Stratford, St. Marys, Mitchell, Sebringville, Monkton, Atwood, Milverton, Listowel and Millbank.

Please note that all routes, fares, schedules and costings related to both commitments remain to be finalized. Co-ordination with other transit systems (e.g. GO Transit, VIA) is a priority consideration.

A bus carrier will be selected through a competitive process, and the new transportation services are expected to launch in the spring of 2020.

For more information, please contact:

Renato Pullia, Chief Administrative Officer

T: 519-271-0531 x110 

The applications and related documentation are available below as a reference: