Public Transit

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.