Free weekend buses will run to Marshall Mountain from downtown Missoula and the University of Montana for the next two months, under a pilot project announced Thursday by Mountain Line.

The temporary bus route will run hourly from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 13 through Oct. 26. The bus, outfitted with a special bike trailer, can take up to 16 passengers and up to 16 bicycles to the former ski hill, and also includes stops at the Sha-Ron fishing access site in East Missoula.

“One of the challenges for a lot of people is access to recreation,” Mountain Line CEO Jordan Hess said in an interview Thursday. “So we’ve got this robust transit system in the valley that will get people to appointments and to work and to school, but it’s different for youth and for people without vehicles, and it’s dif

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