A draft of the feasibility study will be presented Tuesday in Farmington.

Students in Jay and Livermore Falls might be the best customers for a proposed Farmington to Auburn fixed bus route, according to transportation officials.

“Central Maine Community College is really looking for ways to bring students to Auburn from that area, and frankly, so is (the University of Maine at) Farmington,” said Glenn Gordon of Western Maine Transportation Services. “Whichever way they go, we think student commuters could be really significant users of a fixed route like this.”

WMTS and the Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments are wrapping up a feasibility study of a Farmington to Auburn route. While the final draft isn’t expected until June, the group will present a draft at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Farmington Town Office.

An Auburn to Farmington fixed bus route was one of the top 10 priorities called out in a state transit study in 2001. WMTS received a $30,000 Maine Department of Transportation grant to study the route.

Other parts of the study look at regular local service in the Farmington-Wilton area and a wintertime route between the Carrabassett Valley and Sugarloaf Ski Area and Auburn.

“That would be designed to help get some tourists out to Sugarloaf,” Gordon said. It would be similar to the Mountain Explorer service WMTS runs in Bethel and the Island Explorer in Bar Harbor.

“And students in Farmington really want a local service to help get around town, for shopping and entertainment and that kind of stuff,” Gordon said.

But Gordon said the Auburn to Farmington route has the best chance of really being useful. It would run regularly stopping at the smaller towns along the way.

“It seems to have the highest interest in those communities along the way,” he said.

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