LEDUC TRANSIT
Leduc Transit serves the City of Leduc and Nisku, located just South of Edmonton next to the International Airport. An earlier attempt at starting up a transit service in the area involved a private operation run by Pacific Western Transportation. This service ran from the University of Alberta to Leduc, only lasting a few months (September 1999 to early 2000) before being discontinued. Just over ten years later, in August 2010, A new service branded "C-Line" (ETS route 590) began operating commuter buses between Century Park in South Edmonton and Leduc / Edmonton International Airport. The service was contracted out to ETS, with ETS providing drivers and setting aside four buses specifically for use with the service (2009 D40LFRs #4866-4869; see here). The peak-hours-only route was altered slightly upon the creation of ETS' own airport bus service (route 747) in mid-2012, with commuter service running directly to and from Leduc without stopping at the airport. Following a couple years' worth of discussions, the decision was made to bring the entire service in-house as of September 2014.
The current incarnation of Leduc Transit features five local routes and one commuter route. All routes are peak-hours-only, with the exception of the route 10 that runs between Leduc, the
Edmonton International Airport, and the airport outlet mall. The local routes are operated by a fleet of five Arboc Spirit of Mobility cutaways (#s 11-200 to 11-204), while the commuter
service is operated by a fleet of four New Flyer XD40s in a single-door suburban configuration (#s 11-100 to 11-103). Further service expansion is under consideration for the upcoming years.
UPDATE: as of September 2021, routes 2-5 have been replaced with an on-demand transit service. Routes 1 & 10 continue to operate as fixed routes.
This page last updated on September 24, 2021.