Category: Metro News

  • Service Changes Effective June 22, 2025

    (Updated June 18, 2026, 11:10am) Greater Portland Metro will be making the following changes to service beginning June 22. Route 1 service restored to Atlantic Street and Eastern Promenade: Metro will restore service to the southern section of Munjoy Hill, on Eastern Promenade and Atlantic Street, on a trial basis. This segment of service was initially…

  • 2025 Title VI Program

    2025 Title VI Program

    We are asking for feedback about Metro’s Title VI Program.

  • Metro Connect

    Metro Connect

    Now servicing most of Falmouth with Metro Connect. Maps and More info HERE

  • South Portland News Release: South Portland Bus to Merge with GP Metro (10.9.24)

    Media Contact Shara Dee, Communications Officer, sdee@southportland.org, (207) 347-4143Glenn Fenton, Executive Director, Greater Portland Metro, gfenton@gpmetro.org, (207) 517-3025 SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine – On October 8, 2024 South Portland City Council voted unanimously to merge South Portland’s city-run bus system into Greater Portland Transit District (Metro), effective on or around December 29, 2024. Metro will operate…

  • GP Metro Names New Executive Director – Board of Directors Selects Glenn Fenton

    GP Metro Names New Executive Director – Board of Directors Selects Glenn Fenton

    Board of Directors selects Glenn Fenton, who has held a leadership role at Metro since 2014. (Portland, Maine) – Greater Portland Metro’s Board of Directors has selected Glenn Fenton as Metro’s new Executive Director, following a nationwide search. Mr. Fenton has held a leadership role at Metro since 2014, previously serving as Metro’s Chief Transportation…

  • Metro Executive Director Greg Jordan Departing Agency (2.14.24)

    [Portland, Maine] – Greater Portland Metro’s Executive Director, Greg Jordan will depart the agency in March to join the City of Portland as one of its Assistant City Managers. Mr. Jordan has led GP Metro, Maine’s largest public transit agency, since 2013. Prior to that role he served the City of Tempe, Arizona from 1999…

  • Transit Together Meetings (5.3.23)

    Proposed Route and Schedule Changes Could Start this Fall. (Portland, Maine) – Greater Portland METRO’s staff will be hosting public meetings this month to present information and gather feedback from riders, stakeholders, and the general public on proposed bus route and schedule changes. These recommendations are part of the Transit Together Plan to improve the…

  • New BREEZ buses (4.12.23)

    New BREEZ buses (4.12.23)

    Celebrate Earth Day Weekend with FREE RIDES on the BREEZ (Portland, Maine) – METRO’s four newest vehicles will soon be rolling down I-295 on the METRO BREEZ express route, which provides transportation between Portland, Yarmouth, Freeport, and Brunswick. The new buses, featuring updated BREEZ branding, are scheduled to launch on Earth Day weekend. To celebrate…

  • Fare Deal – Discounted Fares (2.14.23)

    (PORTLAND, Maine) Greater Portland METRO, Biddeford Saco Old Orchard Beach Transit (BSOOBTransit), and South Portland Bus Service are discounting bus fares on their transit system for their “Fare Deal” campaign that runs from March 1 – September 30, 2023. All bus fares will be half of their regular price during this promotion, including local and…

  • New Battery Electric Buses (6.6.22)

    New Battery Electric Buses (6.6.22)

    (Portland, ME) – On Monday, May 16, 2022, Biddeford Saco Old Orchard Beach Transit (BSOOB Transit) and Greater Portland METRO announced the addition of four battery-electric Proterra ZX5 buses to their fleets. The first electric buses to provide fixed-route public transit in Maine in over twenty years will begin service this week. Maine Governor Janet…