Editing Isle of Lewis (section)

=== Transport ===
[[File:Stornoway Airport.jpg|thumb|right|[[Stornoway Airport]], a former [[NATO]] base]] [[File:MV Loch Seaforth Approaching Stornoway, 9 May 2016.jpg|thumb|right|MV ''Loch Seaforth'']]A daily [[Caledonian MacBrayne]] [[ferry]] ([[MV Loch Seaforth (2014)|MV ''Loch Seaforth'']]) sails from Stornoway to Ullapool on the Scottish mainland, taking 2 hours 30 minutes connecting Lewis with the mainland. There are two return crossings a day, with one on a Sunday in the winter. Other ferries sailing from Harris are easily accessible by road, enabling transport to [[Skye]] and [[Uist]].

Suggestions for the possibility of an undersea tunnel linking Lewis to the Scottish mainland were raised in early 2007. One of the possible routes, between Stornoway and Ullapool, would be over {{convert|50|mi|km}} long and hence the longest road tunnel in the world;<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stornowaytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=2629&ArticleID=2019367|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208011441/http://www.stornowaytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=2629&ArticleID=2019367  |title=Proposal for Island tunnel to mainland |date=2 February 2007|website=Stornoway Today|archive-date=8 February 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Kelbie | first=Paul | title=Storms inspire dream of Western Isles tunnel | website=news.independent.co.uk | date=2007-02-07 | url=http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article2245144.ece | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071220171435/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article2245144.ece | archive-date=2007-12-20 }}</ref> however, shorter routes would be possible.

Stornoway is the public transport hub of Lewis, with bus services to Point, Ness, Back and Tolsta, Uig, the West Side, Lochs and [[Tarbert, Harris]]. These services are provided by the local authority and several private operators as well as some community-run organisations.

[[Stornoway Airport]] is {{convert|2|mi|km|0}} away from the town itself and is located next to the village of [[Melbost]]. [[Loganair]] operate services to [[Edinburgh]], [[Inverness]] and [[Glasgow]]. [[Hebridean Air Services]] operate a service to [[Benbecula]]. [[Eastern Airways]] flights to Aberdeen ended in November 2018. The airport is the base of a [[HM Coastguard]] Search & Rescue [[Sikorsky S-92]] helicopter and was previously home to [[RAF Stornoway]].