Pacific Western Transportation (also d/b/a P.W. Transportation) provides a variety of bus services in the

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and

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. Depending on the location, it offers scheduled and chartered school busing, municipal transit and handi-bus services, airport passenger services and local and long distance coach charters. Since 2022, it is a subsidiary of Student Transportation of America.

Lines of business

Pacific Western Transportation Group of Companies is separated into four operating divisions: The PWT Motor Coach division provides intercity scheduled (retail) as well as commercial charter transportation across Alberta, specialized health transfer service in British Columbia, and airport passenger and charter transfer services in Ontario. The PWT Employee division services Fort McMurray and the Athabasca oil sands in northern Alberta. The PWT Student Transportation division operates in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Nova Scotia and Ontario. The PWT Transit division operates in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario.

Motorcoach

Red Arrow Motorcoach

Red Arrow provides inter-city coach transportation between Fort McMurray,

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, with a connecting shuttle bus to

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. Red Arrow fleet consists of

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H3-45 coaches equipped as follows: wheelchair accessible, seat belts, Wifi, computer plug-ins and a snack galley on board.

Ebus

Ebus service started on October 11, 2011 and operates

H3-45 and X3-45 coaches. This subsidiary of Red Arrow travels between

, Fort McMurray and

as well as

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Kelowna Kelowna ( ) is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. It serves as the head office of the Regional District of Central Okanagan. The name Kelowna derives from the Okanagan word ''ki� ...

and

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. Service between Edmonton and Kamloops is provided through a partnership with Thompson Valley Charters.

BC Bus North

BC Bus North is an intercity bus service in northern British Columbia.

On-It Regional Transit

On-It Regional Transit is a commuter bus service from

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and

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to Calgary, and seasonal service to Banff and Canmore.

Northern Health Connections

Northern Health Connections joins remote communities in British Columbia to health facilities.

Employee transportation

Diversified Transportation

Diversified Transportation is a bus transportation company based in Fort McMurray that provides services to industry and private coach charters as well as operating some local city transit systems.

Student transportation

Southland Transportation

Southland Transportation is a

based bus company that mainly provides school bus service to local school boards, bus charter services and commuter service from

and

to Calgary and also servicing northern Alberta from Edmonton, Cold Lake, etc.

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is the location of the Southland operation in Saskatchewan providing school bus services to local school boards, and industrial and contract charters.

Prairie Bus Lines

Prairie Bus Lines is based in

and provides primarily school bus services as well as industrial and charter

Standard Bus

Standard Bus is based in British Columbia.

Transit

Alberta

St. Albert Transit St. Albert Transit (StAT) is the public transportation system in the city of St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, which is located about northwest of downtown Edmonton. Scheduled bus service consists of local circuits within the community and express c ...

Leduc Transit Leduc Transit is public bus system operated by the City of Leduc and Leduc County in the Edmonton Capital Region of Alberta, Canada. The service began on September 8, 2014. The capital investment was 5.16 million dollars CAD. GreenTRIP (Green T ...

Fort Sask Transit Fort Sask Transit (FST) is a public transit service in the city of Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. It operates two routes within the city, and a third route is contracted to Edmonton Transit Service (ETS) to connect with its service network. Histor ...

Airdrie Transit Airdrie Transit is a public transportation system which serves the city of Airdrie, Alberta, Canada, which is located just north of Calgary within the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. Service consists of the Intercity Express (ICE) regional transit se ...

Beaumont Transit Beaumont Transit is a transit agency providing public transport bus services primarily in the community of Beaumont, California, United States. The agency operates fixed-route local services, commuter express buses to nearby communities and curb- ...

British Columbia

Prince George Transit System Prince George Transit System, or PG Transit, is the main public transit provider in Prince George, British Columbia. PG Transit is funded in conjunction with the City of Prince George and BC Transit (The provincial Crown corporati ...

* Whistler Transit System

Former

Airport Express

PW Airport Express was purchased after the demise of Gray Coach, which had a franchise to operate a route to the Toronto Pearson International Airport. The service connects between selected downtown Toronto locations and Pearson Airport. The Toronto Airport Express was discontinued on October 31, 2014 due to falling ridership and the anticipated opening of the

Union Pearson Express The Union Pearson Express (UP Express or UPX) is an airport rail link connecting Union Station in Downtown Toronto to Toronto Pearson International Airport. The UP Express began operation on 6 June 2015, in time for the 2015 Pan American Games. ...

, a rail link connecting the airport to downtown Toronto.

Porter shuttle

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provides a shuttle bus service for its passengers between the Royal York Hotel in downtown Toronto and the ferry dock/passenger tunnel to the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (island airport). The service is operated by Pacific Western at 10-minute intervals using Thomas SLF buses. This service has stopped as of March 2020.

Highway 3 Connector

Highway 3 Connectorhighway3connector.ca/
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Medicine Hat Medicine Hat is a city in Southern Alberta, southeast Alberta, Canada. It is located along the South Saskatchewan River. It is approximately east of Lethbridge and southeast of Calgary. This city and the adjacent Town of Redcliff, Alberta, ...

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External links

Official site

Pacific Western Transit
Intercity bus companies of Canada Bus transport in Alberta Bus transport in Yukon Bus transport in Saskatchewan Bus transport in British Columbia Bus transport in Ontario Transport in Toronto Companies based in Calgary