Another company may soon be putting together bus routes servicing Flin Flon.
Maple Bus Lines, a Winnipeg-based company currently offering some bus transport routes in northern Manitoba, has reached a deal with Pimicikamak Cree Nation for the band to provide investment to the company.
According to Maple, the investment from the Pimicikamak band will allow the company to expand its existing northern services, increasing direct and charter bus services to Cross Lake and extending bus use to the west and to the north.
“The investment will allow Maple Bus Lines to add new direct bus and charter bus services to serve Cross Lake and other communities including The Pas, Flin Flon, Leaf Rapids, Lynn Lake, Brandon and Westman,” reads a statement attributed to Maple Bus Lines.
“We’re also proud to play a part to deliver better transportation services across Manitoba’s north,” added Pimicikamak Chief David Monias in the statement.
The company currently operates passenger services six days a week between Winnipeg and Thompson, as well as four trips a week between Cross Lake and Thompson and three trips a week between Winnipeg and Swan River. Maple also provides freight services to Brandon and through southwestern Manitoba.
Currently, only one company - Mahihkan Bus Lines, formerly known as Kelsey Bus Lines - offers regular passenger bus transport service from Flin Flon. After Greyhound Canada shut down almost all of its western Canada operations in 2018, smaller companies have popped up around the west to serve areas in need of bus service.
