Bust outta campus and bus into the city

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4A AND 4B OXFORD EAST

The Oxford East bus is one of the busiest buses you’ll encounter in the school year. It travels down Oxford Street, takes a left down Richmond and continues well into the south end of London before ending up at White Oaks Mall. It is split into the A and B routes during the day to accommodate for travellers who are going through the south end of London. Unless you live in that area, this shouldn’t concern you. When the bus is travelling northbound, it is heading towards Fanshawe from its initial destination at White Oaks and vice versa, so don’t let the name of the bus confuse you by any means.

17 OXFORD WEST

This large route begins in the far southeast end past Argyle Mall and Trafalgar Street continuing north past those two major stops until it gets to Oxford Street. At Oxford, the bus travels west, going to Fanshawe’s stop on the street where you need to be to catch this specific direction. This means that when you see the bus listed as westbound on the bus info sign, you need to be at the bus stop that is by the road across from the Mac’s convenience store and not at the main location where the 4 Oxford East, 20 Cherryhill and 36 Industrial pass by. The bus continues going west past major stops like Highbury, Adelaide, Richmond, Wharrencliffe, Wonderland, until eventually reaching Byron baseline on London’s far west end. The eastbound bus goes the opposite direction of this and only diverts when it swings into Fanshawe’s main bus stop outside of B Building where the aforementioned 4, 20 and 32 go.

20 CHERRYHILL

Another diverse bus route is the 20 Cherryhill. It begins going westbound from Fanshawe’s main bus stop and drives down Oxford until Mornington Avenue where it heads southwards to Dundas Street. It passes through the downtown core and then makes its way to Cherryhill Mall and eventually turns around at Sarnia Road in the west end of the city. Students living along Dundas between Richmond and Quebec or near there can take this bus going eastbound towards the school as can others near Mornington.

36 INDUSTRIAL

An infrequent bus, the 36 continues eastbound from Fanshawe down Oxford and is the only bus that travels to and from the airport. It is a weekday-only bus, however, and it pauses at certain segments of the day leaving Fanshawe roughly from 6 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.

91 EXPRESS

Part of the new Express buses! As the Oxford lines can get very cramped, students now have the option to take the 91 Express from any major stop between Wonderland and Fanshawe College. It runs at peak hours leaving from Fanshawe at 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. to 6:50 p.m. to accommodate for the large influx of students that have long made this major route an uncomfortable ride. This bus, like the 90 that runs from Dundas and Richmond to Masonville Mall, only runs on weekdays and again is limited to only major stops that have the orange sign.

27 FANSHAWE COLLEGE

Students living behind the College on Huron Street up to Adelaide and Kipps Lane will most likely be taking this bus frequently. It starts at Fanshawe’s other bus stop on the east side of the school (along Second Street and facing the Fleming and Thurman neighbourhoods) and heads westbound up to Huron. From there it passes by the major intersection of Highbury- Huron and shuffles people to Adelaide before making a turn in the Kipps land area heading eastbound back towards the school.

25 KILALY

The 25 also stops at the east entrance (in front of F Building where the information booth is) and follows the same path as the 27 except that it diverges and heads north on Highbury towards some of the subdivisions off Fanshawe Park Road. Students taking this bus should note that it does not have evening or weekend service.

OTHER BUSES

Some major bus lines such as the Richmond 6 travel from Victoria Hospital to Western University but those are not directly accessible from Fanshawe so one would have to bus to Richmond street either via the 4, 17 or 20. Dundas and Richmond is the intersection where most buses will converge upon and leave from so it is a common place for people to a pick up a bus to go just about anywhere in the city. On your free time, try finding a bus route that goes somewhere new and explore London’s vast surroundings.