Brunswick Explorer

CTAA’s Rural Technical Assistance has launched another new public transit program. The nation’s newest transit system, the Brunswick Explorer, in Brunswick, Maine began operating its hybrid buses on September 1^st.

The Brunswick Explorer serves the residential and commercial areas of Brunswick, several hospitals, shopping centers and employers, and Bowdoin College. The City of Brunswick is implementing a plan for the creative reuse of the former Brunswick Naval Air Station, which closed in 2009, and the Explorer is a key element in that plan. The Explorer route begins at the new Brunswick Station development that also serves intercity buses and the Maine Eastern excursion. The station is the northern terminus of Amtrak’s Downeaster service from Portland that will begin in 2013.

The service grew out of a CTAA planning project conducted jointly with AECOM transit planning consultants and Selena Barlow transit marketing consultant in 2008. CTAA worked closely with the community to design a viable sustainable transit operation that meets the diverse needs of the community. The Brunswick Explorer continues the series of “Explorer” transit programs in Maine that began with the Island Explorer at Acadia National Park in 1999.

For more information http://www.timesrecord.com/articles/2010/09/02/news/doc4c7fd1f13d44c205101046.prt