AUBURN — A plan for longer Saturday hours on the Twin Cities’ Citylink bus system will get two public hearings Wednesday.

Members of the Lewiston Auburn Transit Committee are proposing adding four hours of Saturday service in Lewiston and three hours in Auburn, in addition to making the Auburn Mall shuttle more frequent.

The committee has scheduled public hearings to discuss the changes Wednesday. The first is scheduled at 1 p.m. in the City Council Chamber of Auburn Hall. The second is scheduled at 6 p.m. in Lewiston City Hall.

Citylink, the bus service operated by the Lewiston-Auburn Transit Committee, began offering limited Saturday service in 2010. That included service to four routes — up College Street in Lewiston to the Auburn Mall, a route from downtown Auburn to the mall, a New Auburn route and a shuttle along Auburn’s Center Street shopping areas.

Plans call for increasing service on the Sabattus Street, Main Street and Lisbon Street routes in Lewiston by four hours.

Service on the Mall route, which runs from downtown Auburn to the Auburn Mall, would increase by three hours.

Shuttle service, which runs between Walmart, Shaw’s, Kmart and the Auburn Mall, would increase to 30 minutes between routes. The bus system’s Saturday schedule in New Auburn would change as well.

The entire schedule is on the transit committee’s website, www.purplebus.org.

Comments and opinions can be submitted to the transit committee in writing, as well.  They can sent via the postal service to: Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments, 125 Manley Road, Auburn, ME 04210 and they can be emailed to mbennett@ avcog.org. Comments should be submitted by 4 p.m., Sept. 21.

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