B A T U S 2 0 1 0 Public Transport
The Suffield and Medicine Hat region of Alberta is not well served by public transport. Reliance on private vehicles is absolute, and without your own car life at BATUS will be difficult. Therefore if you are permanent BATUS staff with at least 1 year in Canada, it is essential to buy your own vehicle.
Below is an overview of the public transport systems that are available in Medicine Hat, Alberta and Canada that may be of use to BATUS personnel and their families.
Bus There is no public bus service between CFB Suffield, Ralston and Medicine Hat.
BATUS Transport and Movement offer a free ‘amenities run’ bus service for all BATUS personnel and their dependents throughout the year. Days and times change as required. Please contact the BATUS HIVE for more information on 4600.
Medicine Hat has a Greyhound Bus Depot and Greyhound Bus Lines operate regular daily scheduled services to all Canadian and US cities from Medicine Hat. Greyhound bus travel can be considerably cheaper than air travel. A service operates between Medicine Hat and Calgary as well as Suffield and Calgary and is approximately $100 return, journey times are approximately 4 hrs. For more information on Greyhound bus travel check out their website at http://www.
greyhound.ca/en/ or phone on 403 527 4418.
Medicine Hat has a local public bus system called Medicine Hat Transit. This service is limited to Medicine Hat, and the hours of operation are not extensive. Monday to Fridays the regularly scheduled service operates between 6.45am and 6.45pm. On Saturdays the service starts at 10.45am and ends at 6.45pm. After 6.45pm and until 10.30pm (Mon – Fri) and 10.45pm (Sat), the service can be requested by telephone. There is no service on Sundays or public holidays. For more information visit their website at:
www.city.medicine-hat.ab.ca/Visitors/About%20Medicine%20Hat/Transportation.asp or phone 529-8214
Rail
There is no passenger rail terminal in Medicine Hat, and there are no passenger rail services at all in Southern Alberta. Passenger rail services do run from Edmonton. There are a variety of tourist rail journeys through the Canadian Rockies, such as the Rocky Mountaineer which runs between Vancouver and Calgary.
Air Service
The City of Medicine Hat owns and operates its own municipal airport with up to 4 flights daily flying to Calgary from this airport. For more information visit their website at:
www.city.medicinehat.ab.ca/Visitors/About%20Medicine%20Hat/Transportation. asp
The closest international airport to BATUS is Calgary International Airport. Air Canada currently operates direct flights daily to the UK through Heathrow Airport and British Airways operate a scheduled direct flight to Heathrow on Mondays – Wednesdays, Friday and Saturday. There are various other airlines such as Zoom, Thomas Cook and MyTravel that offer low cost direct flights from the UK to Calgary airport on various days of the week.
For information on Calgary International Airport visit
www.calgaryairport.com/index. cfm.
For information on Air Canada visitFor information on British Airways visit
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