Brockville For the Day - Planning

I could catch a 6:40 from Toronto (quite late for me!) and be in Brockville in under three hours.

Brockville has a public transit system. The early start is 6:40 and gives me almost ten hours in town. That’s certainly enough time for a light brunch, stroll around town, supper and home shortly after eleven.

The VIA train station is about half a kilometre from the downtown core, but the bus system has three cross-town routes, and RED and BLUE are within walking distance of the train station, but you must choose to walk to one or the other.

Transit runs Monday to Friday –6:45 to 18:15, so if I elect to get the later (21:52) train I can spend a couple of hours over supper and wander the downtown core, ending up with a leisurely stroll back to the station.

As far as I can make out, BLUE and GREEN loop northwards from Bus Terminal in the downtown core, RED covers an Eastern and Western route.

All routes travel through the downtown core, and all routes travel through the BOX Stores, so topologically speaking the three routes form not a two-lobed figure-8, but a three-lobed version!

$2.25 per trip, so a pocketful of coin is advisable. Tickets are available.

Each of the nine routes appears to be a half-hour round trip. In theory I could ride every route completely in 4½ hours, so if I took 8:30 as the start of my rides I’d be done by 1pm!

Leisurely would be to take the first bus to downtown, have breakfast, and then ride until 1pm, light lunch, ride some more and end up strolling the downtown core in the afternoon and early evening.

“Maps are available right from the bus drivers. Or City Hall- Revenue office” Paul McMunn Supervisor Transportation Services

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