BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 5, 2022
To help boost service for the seasonal Island Explorer bus system, the Bar Harbor Town Council has endorsed a plan to increase the town’s annual funding for the system by more than 700 percent. Officials with the bus system told the council Tuesday that the passenger-carrying capacity needs to be increased along Eden Street, where many hotels and campgrounds are located, and on its Sand Beach run, which operates between downtown Bar Harbor and a popular beach in Acadia National Park. It’s not clear if that will result in more buses, more runs or some combination of those solutions or others.