Transit Facts
Interesting Transit Facts
- Winnipeg Transit has a fleet of 640 low floor easy access buses, making public transportation more accessible for all Winnipeg citizens.
- Winnipeg Transit travels more than 30 million kilometres per year.
- Winnipeg Transit buses operated over 1,553,590 total hours in 2018.
- The average bus travels about 50,000 kms each year.
- A bus fuel tank holds about 420 litres of fuel.
- A bus can operate for approximately 35 hours on one tank of fuel.
- Winnipeg Transit consumes approximately 18 million litres of ultra-low-sulphur diesel/2% biodiesel fuel each year.
- Winnipeg Transit spends about $18 million dollars on fuel each year.
- Winnipeg Transit carried 48,770,208 passengers in 2019.
- On an average weekday, Winnipeg Transit carries over 171,290 passengers.
- Winnipeg Transit employs 1,560 people, including approximately 1,100 bus operators.
- About 245 people maintain, repair, and rebuild buses in the shops at Winnipeg Transit.
- Engines are completely overhauled after 400,000 to 800,000 kilometres.
- The average lifespan of a Winnipeg Transit bus is about 18 years.
- There are 87 bus routes in Winnipeg.
- There are approximately 5,170 bus stops in Winnipeg.
- There are about 870 bus shelters, 121 are heated shelters.
- There are approximately 2,005 transit benches in Winnipeg.
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About Winnipeg’s Transit Base – 421 Osborne St.
Winnipeg’s current transit facility has served Winnipeg Transit for more than three decades. Interesting details about this facility include:
- Sits on more than 25 acres of land
- Contains more than 20,000 cubic yards of poured concrete.
- Officially opened on November 20, 1969,
- In 1979, storage for an additional 165 buses was added, extending the garage to its current location next to Osborne Street.
- Can Service a fleet of up to 650 buses
- Can service, vacuum, and wash 40 buses per hour
- Has storage room for 429 buses (after the 1979 expansion)
- It has been the home base of Winnipeg’s transit system for over 75 years.