York Region Transit route 45 'Mingay'

45 Mingay is a local route operated by YRT in Markham, ON.

Basic
Route 45 serves Mingay Ave., Roy Rainey Ave., and Raymerville Dr.

This route has 1 branch:
 * 45 Markville Mall - Major Mackenzie (Weekday rush hours only)

This route serves the Markham and Mount Joy communities. It also serves Centennial Community Centre, Centennial GO Station, Markville Secondary School, and Bur Oak Secondary School.

Route 45 connects to Viva Green and Viva Purple at McCowan/Highway 7.

History
The earliest precursor to this route was the former 203 Centennial GO Shuttle, which operated along a similar routing. It was not successful and was discontinued.

Plans for route 45 have existed for many years, always appearing on maps for proposed service changes, but never being implemented. Mingay was approved to be implemented in 2008, but due to limited vehicle resources implementation of this initiative was deferred pending vehicle availability. It was implemented on September 6, 2009, with the first run on September 8.

Route 45 was declared fully accessible in December 2012.

Vehicles
Route 45 is primarily a 30ft route, and uses E-Z Rider II/BRT/MAX. Rarely 40ft New Flyer D40LF/D40LFR or New Flyer XD40 may provide service.

Major Stops

 * Markville Mall: Southern terminus. Connections to routes 1, 40, 41, 304, 522.
 * Stone Mason/16th: Connections to routes 16, 41.
 * Major Mackenzie Dr.: Northern terminus. Connection to route 25.