The City of Charlottetown outsources its public transit to the private T3 Transit, which operates buses in Charlottetown, Cornwall and Stratford.
Because I refer to my adventures on the buses so often, I’ve created pages describing each of them, with notes and links. This isn’t a complete guide to the transit system; go to the source if you need the real scoop.
This Charlottetown Transit route is one you may never heard of unless you live on the edge of town, as it runs in a loop from Charlottetown Mall to Charlottetown Airport and Winsloe and back.
In the morning it goes counter-clockwise–Mall, Airport, WInsloe, Mall– and in the afternoon it goes clockwise–Mall, Winsloe, Airport, Mall.
Service is infrequent; I did experiment with it as car-free airport transportation, but its schedule isn’t aligned with airport arrivals and departures, so it’s not a true “airport bus.”
This Charlottetown Transit route runs, essentially, up and down University Avenue from Confederation Centre to the Charlottetown Mall.
Its frequency–every 15 minutes in the heart of the day–makes it the closest thing Charlottetown has to a super-convenient “I don’t even have to look at the schedule before I head out the door” public transit route. This, and that it has the University of Prince Edward Island as a stop, makes it the most popular route of the city’s transit system.
On both ends of the run–at Confederation Centre and at Charlottetown Mall–you can transfer to Route № 2 or Route № 3 for connections into the eastern or western parts of the city.
You can also transfer to Route № 11 to get to Charlottetown Airport, a trip I combined with a bicycle as an experiment in car-free airport transportation.
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This Charlottetown Transit route runs clockwise from Confederation Centre to the Charlottetown Mall and then back downtown; Route № 2 runs in the opposite direction on the same route.
It runs out Grafton Street to Cumberland Street, turns left by Holland College, and then out St. Peters Road and Kensington Road into Hillsborough Park, to the Charlottetown Mall, into West Royalty and down into the West Royalty Industrial Park, by Lewis Point Park on Maypoint Road and Beach Grove Road, and then back downtown on North River Road to Confederation Centre.
It’s the best and fastest way for me to get from from Stars for Life, where Oliver spends his weekdays, back downtown.
My only complaint about the route is that it is infrequent–once an hour.
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This Charlottetown Transit route runs counter-clockwise from Confederation Centre to the Charlottetown Mall and then back downtown; Route № 3 runs in the opposite direction on the same route.
It runs up North River Road through Brighton, by Lewis Point Park on Beach Grove Road, through the West Royalty Industrial Park, out into deepest West Royalty, and to the mall, and then out into Hillsborough Park and down St. Peters Road and Kensington Road, through Sherwood and Parkdale, back downtown.
It’s the best and fastest way for me to get from downtown Charlottetown out to Stars for Life, where Oliver spends his weekdays.
My only complaint about the route is that it is infrequent–once an hour.
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