Bus service between Williamsport and Montoursville will be operated by the Williamsport Bus Company, beginning Wednesday. The sale of the Lycoming Auto Transit Company, present operator, was approved last week by the Public Utility Commission.

The fare for travel between the borough and the city will be 15 cents. Transfers will cost two cents.

Montoursville-bound buses will leave the city every hour, at 15 and 45 minutes past the hour. Williamsport-bound buses also leave the borough each half hour, and 5 and 35 minutes past the hour.

The daily schedule will be Williamsport to Montoursville — first bus at 5:45 a.m. and the last at 11:15 p.m.
The Sunday and holiday schedule: city to borough — first at 8:15 a.m. and last at 5:45 p.m. borough to city — first at 8:35 a.m. and last at 6:05 p.m.

William H. Edwards, president of the city bus line, said the changes will be made without the loss of a single trip, however, he said, the route would be changed, since the borough route is being absorbed in the Newberry “run.” Passengers going to the borough will board along Third Street. In the borough the bus will go east on Broad Street to Fairview Drive, north to Mulberry Street, west to Walnut Street, north again to Fairview Drive, west to Loyalsock Avenue, south to Montour Street, and south to Broad, then back to Williamsport.

Compiled by Lou Hunsinger Jr.