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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark
Thanks for your post! I'm curious about the NSLP/Halifax relationship worked. Growing up in Dartmouth, I remember riding on the electric trolleycoaches in Halifax but standard buses in Dartmouth. Do you know how all that worked, given that Dartmouth was its own city at the time?
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I don't know all the details, but both the Halifax and Dartmouth bus services back then were privately owned and operated. NSL&P ran the trolley system, while a company known as Bell Buses ran the Dartmouth system. The Halifax trolleys served only the peninsula while the Dartmouth system was small and had very limited routes, using old (even for the time) GM diesel coaches.
Where it gets murky for me is what happened in 1970 when the systems were taken over by govt. I know Metro Transit was established and used a fleet of new-look GM buses, but I read in the HRM archives some Dartmouth city council minutes from the late 1970s where they approved purchase of a fleet of used buses from Victoria BC, which I could not understand. Maybe MT just ran the service and the city govts were responsible for buying the hardware. I just don't know.
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