Niagara Transit Plus
Microtransit
A shared ride service that connects rural communities across Niagara to the wider transit network.
What is Microtransit?
Microtransit is a shared ride service for areas that conventional bus routes don’t reach. Instead of catching a scheduled bus, you request a ride through the NT+ app and get picked up at a nearby location.
There’s no fixed route or schedule. Your trip may include other riders and extra stops along the way, and the vehicle’s path can adjust as people are picked up and dropped off.
Some trips take you straight to your destination. Others connect you to a bus hub, where you transfer to a conventional route. The NT+ app figures out which kind of trip you need and plans the whole thing.
How Trips Work
Two ways Microtransit gets you there
Depending on where you’re going, your trip is either a direct ride or a connection to a bus. You don’t have to work out which, the app does that for you.
Straight to your destination
Microtransit picks you up and takes you where you’re going, sometimes across zones, without stopping at a hub.
Pickup –> Microtransit –> Destination
Example: A rider in Pelham books a trip to a medical appointment in Grimsby. Microtransit takes them directly across zones to their destination.
Connect to a bus at a hub
In some areas, Microtransit brings you to a bus hub where you transfer to a conventional route to finish your trip.
Pickup –> Microtransit –> Hub –> Bus –> Destination
Example: A rider in Wainfleet takes Microtransit to the Welland Terminal, then transfers to a bus to continue their trip.
Microtransit Zones
Get to know the zones
Different areas have different service types. Select your zone on the map to see how Microtransit works where you are. Areas you can travel to light up, areas outside your reach are greyed out.
How to use
Click on any zone to see where you can travel and connect to transit.Zone Legend
One Fare
$3.50/per trip
The same rate as the rest of the network.
Travel in any direction for two hours, transferring as many times as you need, including onto conventional buses.
Pay with cash (ask for a transfer), the Transit app, a fare card, or your Brock/Niagara College U-Pass. No transfer needed with a 31-day pass.
Children 12 and under ride free.
Get Started
Book with the NT+ app
The Niagara Transit Plus app is where you book and track every NT+ ride, both Microtransit and Specialized. Download it, create your account, and you’re ready to go.
No smartphone? You can book on your computer or call us instead 1-833-678-5463, ext. 1.
Learn More
Before your first ride
The Microtransit & Specialized Rider Guide covers transfers, storage, accessibility and service policies for both services in one place.