Banff & Canmore & Lake Louise Transit (Roam Transit)

The Bow Valley Regional Transit Commission is the transit system serving the towns of Banff, Canmore and the village of Lake Louise in Alberta. The branding name for the transit service is called Roam Transit. As of July 2019, service consists of 6 base routes with 4 additional routes opearting during the summer season. Routes 1, 2 and 7 provide year round service in Banff. Route 3 provides year round service to connect the towns of Canmore and Banff. Route 5 provies local service in Canmore year round. Route 8X provides year round service between Banff and Lake Louise via Highway 1. Routes 4, 6, 8S and 9 are additional services for the busy summer season in Banff, Johnston Canyon, Bow Valley Parkway, Castle Junction & Lake Minnewanka.

All buses feature unique liveries featuring wildlife photography from Banff National Park. Operation of Banff Transit (Roam) was contracted to Brewster Transportation. Eventually, operations were turned over entirely to the Town of Banff and Canmore. Roam Transit began service on June 2, 2008 with local Routes 1 and 2, later adding the seasonal Route 4. The Canmore connector service (Route 3) began operating on December 3rd, 2012. Canmore local serivce (Route 5) began in early 2017. Service on Route 6 to Lake Minnewanka began in summer 2017. At the start of the winter of 2018 service to Lake Louise from Banff on Route 8X began. Additionally in the summer of 2019, service to Johnstone Canyon and Banff Centre began on Routes 7 and 9 began respectively.

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Prior to Brewster opearting the service, Banff Transportation and Tours was the operator. For a short time period at the end of 2007 and earlier part of 2008, Pinnacle (now Canada Coach Lines) operated service as well. These buses are all noted under Former Operations below.


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Grande West Vicinity
Chevrolet C4500-Arboc Sprit of Freedom
Motrocoach Industries (MCI) D45 CRT LE
Nova Bus LFS
Diesel
Nova Bus LFS
Diesel-Electric Hybrid
Proterra ZX5 Electric Bus
Former Operations
New Flyer D40
Orion 01.507
Other

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