Stratford & Perth County Community Transportation

Backgrounder to Provincial Community Transportation Grant Commitments
to City of Stratford and County of Perth

The City of Stratford and the County of Perth have each received a commitment of $1,449,345 in provincial funding through the Ministry of Transportation’s Community Transportation Grant Program to establish new public transit for a pilot period of five years.

With its commitment, the City of Stratford, together with Perth County and its member municipalities, and the Town of St. Marys, will create an inter-regional transit service connecting London, St. Mary's, Stratford and Kitchener. Service between Listowel and Kitchener is also planned.

A separate but related Perth County commitment will create a transit system to link the communities of Stratford, St. Marys, Mitchell, Sebringville, Monkton, Atwood, Milverton, Listowel and Millbank.

Please note that all routes, fares, schedules and costings related to both commitments remain to be finalized. Co-ordination with other transit systems (e.g. GO Transit, VIA) is a priority consideration.

A bus carrier will be selected through a competitive process, and the new transportation services are expected to launch in the spring of 2019.

The applications are available below as a reference.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

The City of Stratford, the Town of St. Marys, the County of Perth and its member municipalities of North Perth, West Perth, Perth East, and Perth South, are seeking proposals from qualified individuals or firms to provide contracted services as our Community Transportation Coordinator.

Please see Request For Proposal 2018-011-04 – Coordinator, Community Transportation, available on the County of Perth website at: https://perthcounty.bidsandtenders.ca/Module/Tenders/en.

Question Deadline: Friday July 27, 2018 11:00am (EDT)

Bid Closing Date: Friday August 17, 2018 11:00am (EDT)