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I was downtown Windsor on the evening of Father's Day, June 19th, 2016. I stood waiting in the heat for a bus in front of the RBC Financial Group at the corner of Ouellette and Chatham Street for over an hour. I observed that there were no buses coming south to the terminal, therefore, I assumed that there were no buses going north. I started to walk towards the next bus stop to the north and noticed 2 police officers going into the Starbucks Coffee Shop. I went in and asked about the buses and they indicated that as far as they knew, the buses were still operating for the evening. I continued on my way to the next bus stop and joined 3 other senior women who had been waiting at the bus stop for over 2 hours. One elderly woman was in a wheelchair, another elderly woman had bad knees and was in a great deal of pain from sitting on the steel bench since just past 6:00 p.m. and it was now after 8:30 p.m. I chatted with all 3 women and they indicated that they hadn't heard anything about the buses stopping early for the night. I tried contacting the Windsor Transit Terminal but kept getting recordings that the offices were closed for the day, therefore, at 9:00 p.m., we all decided that there were no more buses coming. I also checked the Holiday Service and Father's Day is not listed as a holiday. The woman in the wheelchair quietly motored away, I'm not sure what happened to her. The elderly woman with the bad knees left and made her way slowly up the street. I hope she made it home ok. I was the lucky one, the 3rd woman called her son-in-law and he came from Forest Glade to pick both of us up. They were gracious enough to give me a ride home to the Walkerville area because, otherwise, I would have been stranded with no way home and no money for a cab. This kind of service by the Windsor Transit is not acceptable when dealing with senior citizens. We were hot, thirsty and without any kind of public transportation. This is thoroughly unacceptable service.