BATA and TCAPS are partnering to provide transportation support. Please review the options below to determine which BATA service works best for your transportation needs.

 

Free Rides:TCAPS students can show their IDs and ride for free on any afternoon fixed route. NOTE: Free rides do not apply to BATA’s Link On-Demand service.  Free ride is good for one-way, and one destination outbound - students should ask for a transfer ticket on their firs bus if they plan to transfer to a second bus for their final destination.    

 

TC West High School Departures

  • 3:10 p.m. (1:10pm on early release day) - BATA Bus Departure (by gym door entrance). All riders are bused to BATA’s downtown Hall Street Transfer Station. At BATA’s Hall Street Transfer Station, riders can connect with other BATA routes for 3:30 p.m. departures to multiple locations (see options below). Students should arrive at least 5 minutes before departure.

 3:30 pm connections from Hall Street Transfer Station: (1:30pm on early relase day)

 

Village Loop Route 12: Interlochen, Chums Corners, Grawn, Blair Township, South Silver Lake

(NOTE: the next departure is not until 5:30pm, and this bus departs at 1:30pm and 11:30am as well for early release travel.)

3:30 p.m. - Depart BATA Hall Street Transfer Station

3:34 p.m. - Division @ 12th Street / Central Neighborhood

3:42 p.m. - TC West Middle School

3:47 p.m. - Grand Traverse Mall

3:51 p.m. - Meadowlanes (Please request this stop)

3:55 p.m. - Menards

4:00 p.m. - Battle Fitness (Please request this stop)

4:03 p.m. - Nimrod Rd (Please request a stop)

4:07 p.m. - Vance and Sawyer (Please request this stop)

4:10p.m. - Blair Township Hall

4:13 p.m. - Silver Shores

4:23 p.m. - Interlochen Corners – Blue Vase / U.S. 31 and M-137

4:25 p.m. - Interlochen Public Library (Please request this stop)

4:28 p.m. - Interlochen Arts Academy

 

Village Loop Route 10:  M-22, Elmwood Township, Cherry Bend, Suttons Bay

(NOTE: the next departure is not until 5:30pm, and this bus departs at 1:30pm and 11:30am as well for early release travel.)

3:30 p.m. - Departure from BATA Hall Street Transfer Station

3:35 p.m. - Children’s Museum / Discovery Pier

3:38 p.m. - Leelanau Studios / Cherry Bend Road

3:42 p.m. - Bay Shore Drive and E. Walters Driver (Please request this stop)

3:46 p.m. - Shady Lane Market

3:55 p.m. - Village of Suttons Bay (Suttons Bay Library)

 

Other connections from Hall Street Station include:

  •  Bayline Route: Meijer, Grand Traverse Commons, Elmwood, Slabtown, Central Neighborhood, Downtown TC, Central High School/NMC, Career Tech Center, Woodland Creek Park & Ride, and Holiday Hills. (NOTE: Departures every 20 minutes)
  • City Loop Route 1: Union Street Corridor, Veteran’s Drive, Bay Hill and Hillview Apartments, Vista Park and Grand Traverse Mall / Walmart (NOTE: Departures at 3:30, 4 p.m., and almost every half hour throughout the day.)
  • City Loop Route 2: LaFranier, Boardman, Barlow, 8th Street, and the Traverse Area District Library (NOTE: Departures at 3:30 and 4 p.m., and almost every half hour throughout the day.)
  • TCHS students who wish to travel to WSH can catch Link 15 from Hall Street.  Please ask BATA staff where this bus will dock.  It leaves the station prior to 3:30 - directly after it drops off WSH students inbound.  

 

Ask the BATA staff and drivers about your appropriate route.

 

 

Updated: 02.10/2023