Contracts awarded for ICC bus routes
The Maryland Transit Administration has selected operators for two commuter bus lines that will run on the Inter-county Connector after the first phase of the toll road is opened.
S & L Enterprises of Hagerstown, which does business as Atlantic Coast Charters, has been awarded a three-year contract to operate a route between Gaithersburg and BWI Marshall Airport with a bid of $4.39 million. Eyre Bus Service of Waldorf submitted a winning $1.28 million bid for a three-year contract to provide service on a route between Gaithersburg and Fort Meade.
Both contracts are scheduled for a Board of Public Works vote Dec. 15. The first phase of the ICC, between Interstate 370 and Georgia Avenue, is expected to open early next year, and the bus service is scheduled to begin then. The second phase, between Georgia Avenue and Interstate 95, is scheduled to open about a year later.
The Gaithersburg-BWI route, Line 201, will provide 28 trips a day -- 14 in each direction. There will be eight in the morning, one at midday and five in the afternoon. The buses will stop at the park-and-rides in Gaithersburg, Norbeck and Burtonsville and at the Shady Grove Metro Station. On the BWI end it will stop at the terminal and the Amtrak/MARC station.
Line 202, between Gaithersburg and Fort Meade, will offer three morning rides, one at midday and three in the evening. It will make stops at the Gaithersburg and Norbeck park-and-rides, the Shady Grove Metro, the Odenton MARC station and the National Security Agency.
As parts of the contracts, the MTA will lease six buses to Atlantic Coast and four to Eyre.
