Greater Portland Metro
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PublishedNovember 22, 2023
Maine Voices: Let there be bus passes!
After 7 years, Portland Adult Education students are riding the bus for free. The efforts of numerous good people brought this to fruition.
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PublishedAugust 7, 2023
Campaign spotlights oft-ignored yield-to-bus law
It's not optional – if a Metro bus is flashing its yield sign, let it in. That's the message of a new campaign designed to get people to comply with a 2019 law.
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PublishedAugust 2, 2023
New bus route linking Gorham, Westbrook, Portland under consideration
GPCOG is studying a new METRO line with more buses and more stops.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2023
Bus services halve fares to get riders back on board
Greater Portland Metro, South Portland Bus Service and Biddeford Saco Old Orchard Beach Transit will cut fares from March 1 through Sept. 30 in hopes of getting ridership back to pre-pandemic levels.
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PublishedDecember 15, 2022
Regional transit agencies get on board, OK $8 million spending plan
Some of the groups had held up the funding when they couldn't agree on how to divvy up the American Recovery Plan money to make public transit more frequent, reliable and convenient to use in hopes of boosting ridership.
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PublishedApril 28, 2022
Planned bus fare holiday stalls over dispute among Portland-area transit agencies
Bus, train and ferry operators opposed to a federal relief spending plan have withheld their signatures from a letter required to release the money.
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PublishedApril 15, 2022
Portland entry wins national best bus stop contest after invalid votes are rejected
An underdog contender, the brightly decorated Congress Street shelter appeared to lose to a Boston competitor Friday morning, but was later confirmed the winner after online votes generated by spam bots were thrown out.
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PublishedApril 5, 2022
Our View: Public transit a good place to spend Maine COVID relief funds
Investing in the system is the only way to make it work for more people, and thus build the ridership necessary to sustain it.
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PublishedMarch 23, 2022
Metro temporarily scales back Breez, Portland bus service
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PublishedMarch 22, 2022
Greater Portland Metro temporarily reduces service on 2 routes
Metro's Route 1 route and BREEZ service will be temporarily reduced because of staffing shortages unrelated to COVID-19.
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