Maple Bus Lines recently extended their interim morning and afternoon bus service for School District of Mystery Lake (SDML) students that began Nov. 26 to include post-secondary students from the University College of the North (UCN).
A Dec. 7 post on the UCN Student Life at Thompson Campus Facebook page said Maple Bus Lines doesn’t require any passes or fees to access this service, which begins at the Eastwood route on Yale at 7:45 p.m.
This route is repeated until 8:45 a.m. and starts up again for a return trip at 3:30 p.m., with the last bus leaving R.D. Parker Collegiate at 4:30 p.m.
This service will be suspended for the upcoming school holidays, but Maple Bus Lines owner Lori Mann said it will return once school starts up again on Jan 7.
Mann also mentioned that Maple Bus Lines is gunning for a city contract to provide Thompson transit services in Thompson, which has not been running since Nov. 1.
“I really want to get that bid and grow our freight and charter services in Thompson and the surrounding area,” she said. “Every day people are finding out a little bit more about us. We’re not coming across as the big bad invaders.”
Following Greyhound’s departure from Thompson and all of Western Canada on Oct. 31, companies have popped up to fill the void, including Maple Bus Lines, Thompson Bus– which also submitted a proposal to provide city transit services–and Highway 6 Express.
