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Drummondville Transit

Public transportation in Quebec, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ5309252 ↗
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The Drummondville Transit Commission (la Commission de transport de Drummondville (CTD)) is responsible for public transportation in the city of Drummondville in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, Canada.

The system consists of six regular bus routes (1-6) which operate every half-hour on weekdays and every half-hour on weekends, and two weekend-only bus routes that operate every half-hour.

Bus routes

All routes operate out of the main downtown bus terminal at Des Forges and Lindsay Streets.

1 - Downtown to Drummondville-Sud, along Boul. Mercure (provides service to Hôpital Sainte-Croix)

2 - Downtown to Drummondville-Nord, along Boul. St-Joseph (provides service to the CEGEP and several large shopping centres)

3 - Downtown to Drummondville-Nord, along Boul. Des Pins

4 - Downtown to Quartier St-Jean-Baptiste (provides service to the CEGEP)

5 - North–south route from Drummondville-Nord (Promenades Drummondville) to Saint-Nicéphore (Place Charpentier)

6 - Downtown to St-Charles-de-Drummond along Boul. de l'Université

7 - Super C strip mall on Boul.

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This entry incorporates text from “Drummondville Transit” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.