**** HRM Media Release
Halifax Transit to reduce service due to ongoing staffing issues
The municipality is advising residents that, due to current staffing issues, Halifax Transit is implementing further conventional bus service reductions.
Beginning Monday, February 27 Halifax Transit will be temporarily suspending service on three bus routes, making schedule adjustments to three routes, and removing trips from 30 routes. These service reductions are new and replace several of the trips impacted by the service reductions introduced in November 2022.
Summary of Service Reductions
The impacted routes and trips that will be removed starting February 27, 2023 as follows:
- Routes 41, 178 and 179 will have no service.
- Passengers on Route 41 may consider Route 10,
or Route 7B + 1, 5, 10, 158, 159, 161, 165, 168+ - Passengers on Route 178 may consider Route 67 + 58, 158
- Passengers on Route 179 may consider Route 67 + 59, 159
- Passengers on Route 41 may consider Route 10,
- Routes 6, 21 and 54 will have schedule adjustments.
- 105 trips will be removed from the following routes:
- One trip removed from Route 123
- Two trips removed from each of the following routes: 29, 93, 68, 83, 86, 93, 137, 158, 183, 186, 194
- Four trips removed from each of the following routes: 55, 57, 65, 84, 127, 135, 136, 138, 165, 168A, 168B, 370
- Six trips removed from each of the following routes: 59, 85, 159, 182, 185
- 10 trips removed from Route 330 (all remaining trips will be adjusted to service both Tantallon Park & Ride and Sheldrake Lake Park & Ride)
More details are available on halifax.ca/servicechanges.
The service reductions have been developed with consideration for passenger impact and no community will completely lose service during these changes. This service reduction will be in place until late summer 2023, and if recruitment continues at the current pace, Halifax Transit is planning to return to regular service levels by that time.
Halifax Transit has continued to work to improve staffing levels. From September to December 2022, 35 new Operators have been hired and trained, and hiring is ongoing this year with new training courses hosted every three weeks.
For more information, visit halifax.ca/transit.
