Greyhound Lines Co. will resume limited passenger bus service to Bangor on Sunday, April 1, according to a local agent for the company.
One bus daily will leave Bangor at 5:35 a.m., according to Arthur Brountas of Brountas Travel Bureau. The bus will follow Greyhound’s inland route through Waterville, Augusta, Lewiston, Portland and Portsmouth, N.H. It will arrive in Boston at 11:45 a.m.
The return bus will leave Boston at 2:45 p.m. and arrive in Bangor at 9:10 p.m., again following the inland route, according to Brountas.
“They’re trying to offer limited service now and increase it as they hire drivers,” said Brountas.
Greyhound once offered four arrivals and four departures each day from Bangor. Service came to a halt March 2, when 6,300 bus drivers and 3,075 office and maintenance workers walked off their jobs in a dispute over wages, work schedules, grievance procedures and job security. The workers are represented by the Amalgamated Council of Greyhound Local Unions.
Greyhound operates the only nationwide bus service, and the strike has stranded commuters in many smaller communities where buses are the only public transportation.
On March 7, Greyhound began partial service from Boston to Portland. Picketers cheered as the first bus to leave the Portland terminal with a replacement driver sideswiped a parked Jeep Cherokee.
Since the strike began, there have been at least 14 shooting attacks on Greyhound buses, 46 bomb threats and numerous other incidents of vandalism or threats, according to a company spokesman.
Talks between Greyhound and the union broke down March 18, when the company accused union leaders of failing to negotiate and of committing new violence.
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