A total of 23 bus routes serve every area of the city, carrying approximately 11 million passengers in 2008.

[4]: 255  Following this, the city consulted the Boston, Massachusetts, transit planning firm of Stone and Webster, which advised in a report that the future street railway should be municipally operated.

[4]: 255  The city government began work and by the end of the year, 17 miles (27 km) of track had been laid.

It experienced one of its most notable accidents not long afterward, in 1922, when a streetcar derailed near the 19th Street Bridge, coming to rest at the waterfront.

[4]: 257  On July 21, 1933, streetcars shifted to the newly built Broadway Bridge,[4]: 257  another Great Depression-era make-work project.

[4]: 261 On December 12, 1946, a report was presented which proposed the total conversion of the system to exclusively use motorized buses and trolleybuses.

[4]: 260  Use of the city's coat of arms on transit vehicles ended on July 14, 1950, when it was replaced with the plain letters "STS".

[4]: 260  Three of the streetcars were preserved; one was returned to the United States, where it had originally operated, and two were retained for display at the Saskatchewan Railway Museum.

[5] This terminal area is perceived by many as unsafe, and most of the businesses along this block have relocated; however, Saskatoon Transit has made some recent improvements, including a constant security guard presence and a Customer Service Centre where tickets, passes and schedules may be obtained.

The 2005 Strategic Plan Study recommended that major improvements be carried out to the downtown terminal, but by 2020, no changes had been made.

[6] A comprehensive study[10] of Saskatoon Transit's service was undertaken in 2005, outlining many deficiencies and making many recommendations.

The main recommendations of the Short Term Plan were to re-orient the current regular service network to better serve the University of Saskatchewan and other key destinations, to introduce higher-order "DART" service on four corridors interlined into two routes, and to construct a new bus terminal at Market Mall, as well as to make major improvements to the terminals downtown and at the University.

The routes in place prior to 2006 had not been substantially modified since the 1970s, and some since the 1950s, with the result that many neighbourhoods, particularly the newer suburbs, had poor service.

Due to extreme congestion at the University of Saskatchewan, several routes bypassed the campus altogether, forcing students to cross College Drive on foot.

Issues include staffing, fleet replacement, refurbishing older buses, maintenance, new technologies such as emissions reduction and "smart" fare collection.

Critical items include: As of 2022, there are no priority signals, queue-jumps, nor transit-oriented-development of a notable scale to have materialized within the city.

Unveiled on July 2, 2006, the four DART routes used to interline in the central sections to form two corridors with extremely frequent service.

[13] After four years without a collective bargaining agreement, the Union (Amalgamated Transit Local 615) took action and drivers went on strike on November 12, 2016.

Saskatoon Transit Service has housed its operational headquarters around the 1913 original streetcar building at Avenue C and 24th Street.

The city transit service afterwards adopted this area for bus warehouse garages and offices between Avenue C and D at 24th Street.

In early 2017, transit storage and maintenance was moved to the newly built Civic Operations Centre.

The new terminal would have centred around a 600-square-meter (6,500 sq ft) LEED-certified building with a green roof, surrounded by a ring of raised-platform stops.

In addition to Saskatoon Transit, the building could also house a coffee shop and government offices such as social services or immigration.

The adult cash fare is currently $3.00 (as of Feb 2016), which includes unlimited transfers for 90 minutes from time of payment.

Smart cards have been adopted to limit fraud—such as forged monthly passes and short-changed fares—and to reduce the potential for conflict between driver and passenger.

After waiting for some time, the city of Saskatoon partnered with Google Transit in 2016 to provide an online mapping website.

It will include 48 stations (a total of 85 platforms will be built), with 3 planned for future infill: with amenities like heated shelters, real-time information displays, transit priority signals, and public art opportunities.

[25] Saskatoon Transit operates special morning and afternoon service to many of the city's schools, and also serves events at SaskTel Centre.

These buses were delivered in April 2010 and officially unveiled at a press conference in front of city hall in June 2010.

Saskatoon Transit also received 5 new diesel fleets from Nova Bus In mid October - early November 2024.