AUBURN — Ridership on the Twin Cities’ bus system has continued to rise, with the system posting its best-ever monthly numbers in June.

Citylink had 25,055 riders in June. That’s 4,829 more riders than in June 2010, said Harold Allen, transportation supervisor for Western Maine Transportation Services. Allen presented the statistics to the Lewiston-Auburn Transit Committee on Thursday.

Since October, the beginning of the fiscal year for the transit committee, the service has logged 206,074 rider trips, an increase of 29,153 for the same period, October through June, of the previous fiscal year.

“The good news continues, and we continue to see ridership up 16 percent,” Phil Nadeau, chairman of the committee, said.

The committee tweaked services last summer by beginning two Saturday routes between 9 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. The first runs through Lewiston, up College Street and across the Androscoggin River to the Auburn Mall. The second  runs to New Auburn, then back through downtown Auburn to the mall.

Bus service was expanded to Little Canada, the B Street Community Center, Geiger, Montello schools and to Lewiston Middle School, Auburn Middle School, Edward Little High School, the Auburn Plaza and Auburn Mall Apartments.

The committee also moved the bus system’s Auburn hub from Great Falls Plaza to the Hannaford supermarket on Spring Street.

Nadeau said the system could also be proud of its small number of missed runs. Equipment failures account for two missed routes, on May 12 and May 31. The first was due to a failed water pump and the second to malfunctioning doors.

The system reported no missed runs in June, Allen said.

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