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Highway 16 Community Access – Transportation Services VILLAGE OF

37 97 Highway 16 from Prince Rupert to Prince George HAZELTON stretches nearly 800 kilometres in BC’s northern 39 region. Where transportation options are available, residents need to find that information quickly 16 SMITHERS and easily. FORT ST. JAMES PRINCE TERRACE This document includes information on medical RUPERT 37 transportation, inter-city bus, rail, and community- HOUSTON 27 35 PRINCE based services. It provides a single source of VANDERHOOF GEORGE information on these and other related services, such FRASER LAKE as driver training programs and business licensing information for starting up a new service.

TRANSPORTATION SERVICES Inter-City Bus A commercial driver’s licence requires a safe driving record. Transit • BC Bus North – to make reservations or for more information please visit www.bcbus.ca • Should you wish to apply for a licence to start • The BC Transit website provides everything or call toll free 1-844-564-7494. up your own driver training school, or to teach you need to know about using public transit a driver training course, see the Driver Training Rail services in Fraser Lake. Visit www.bctransit. Industry of BC website (www.dtcbc.com) or com/bulkley-nechako/home or call 855- • operates a regional service call 1-866-339-0363. 499-1119. BC Transit’s Bulkley-Nechako Route between Jasper, AB and Prince Rupert, BC. 161 service connects Fraser Lake to Burns Lake Business Licensing Visit www.viarail.ca or call 1-888-VIA-Rail and Prince George three days a week. (842-7245). • To operate a business in Fraser Lake, you need a • Refer to the “BE SAFE” guide (www2.qa.gov. business licence issued by the Village of Fraser Community-Based Services bc.ca/assets/gov/public-safety-and- Lake. See Fraser Lake Business Licensing (www. emergency-services/crime-prevention/ • The Village of Fraser Lake website (www. fraserlake.ca) or call 250-699-6257. community-crime-prevention/ fraserlake.ca) includes helpful transportation • Visit the Passenger Transportation Branch publications/safe-community-be-safe- and travel information. guide.pdf) for personal safety tips for when website (www.th.gov.bc.ca/rpt/licence_ you are walking or using public transportation. • Stellat’en and Nadleh provides a new.htm) or call 1-800-663-7867 to see if a connection to Fraser Lake (250-699-1495). Passenger Transportation Licence is needed. Medical Transportation • Speak to an Autoplan Broker about vehicle • In the event of an emergency, dial 9-1-1 LICENSING SERVICES and liability insurance needed to operate if you require an ambulance to transport you a passenger transportation service. For the to a hospital. Driver Licensing location nearest you, see the ICBC website (www.icbc.com/locators/Pages/default. • Information is available on all driver training • Connections is a travel service aspx) or call 1-800-663-3051. program for patients needing to travel for out- school locations licensed or registered by of-town medical appointments in Northern ICBC. See the Driver Training Industry of BC. Call 1-888-647-4997 or visit https:// website (www.dtcbc.com/ nhconnections.ca/. resources/ds-locations/all-schools.asp) or call 1-866-339-0363. • The First Nations Health Authority Health Benefits Program helps provide coverage for • If you are unsure of the type of driver’s licence health services to support BC First Nations, you need to operate a specific type of vehicle including access to medical transportation or passenger service, ICBC has information benefits through their home community’s on Driver’s Licence Classes and Types. health service office. For more information, Contact ICBC to determine qualifications to call 1-800-317-7878 or visit www.fnha.ca/ operate shuttle services (1-800-950-1498). benefits/medical-transportation.

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