Commuter bus line now connects Lewiston-Auburn area with Portland
A new commuter bus service hit the road on Monday, running between Lewiston-Auburn and Portland and replacing a previous bus connection that ended last month.
The new service, called LAP and overseen by the Maine Department of Transportation, includes several daily trips from 4:30 a.m. to midnight, Monday through Friday, and from 6 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. on weekends, the department said in a news release.
The service is a pilot program that will operate for at least two years and help gauge the demand for more public transportation between the Portland and Lewiston-Auburn regions.
LAP will make six stops: Bates College, 56 Campus Ave., and the Oak Street Bus Station, 11 Bates St., in Lewiston; the Auburn Transportation Center, 24 Great Falls Plaza, and the park-and-ride lot at Maine Turnpike Exit 75 in Auburn; Monument Square, 480-486 Congress St., and the Portland Transportation Center, 100 Thompson’s Point, in Portland.
Riders will need to download the Token Transit app to buy tickets in advance and view a detailed bus schedule. The drivers will also accept cash payments in exact amounts. The one-way fare is $8.
The contractor selected for the $2.8 million project is RTW Management Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Concord Coach Lines, whose Maine route had made stops in Lewiston and Auburn since 2017, stopped serving those cities in June.
MDOT said at the time that they sought bidders for the project in January after spending much of 2023 gathering input from residents, businesses and other stakeholders about where and when the buses would travel.
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