BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 4, 2020
The seasonal, fare-free bus service on Mount Desert Island is suspending the start of its 2020 operations indefinitely because of COVID-19 concerns. The bus service, operated by Downeast Transportation, typically carries hundreds of thousands of passengers each year who are a mix of tourists, local residents and seasonal workers to multiple locations in Acadia National Park and elsewhere on Mount Desert Island. Over the past 21 years, the bus system has carried more than 8 million passengers and is estimated to have reduced private automobile traffic on the island by roughly 3 million vehicles.