Anchor Trailways & Tours officials say they plan to have bus service from Tuscumbia to Nashville including stops in St. Joseph, Loretto and Lawrenceburg by June.
“We have a timetable, one that we believe is a workable timetable,” said Mark Szyperski, a business development official with Anchor Trailways & Tours, of Nashville. “We would love to be operating sooner, but there is a lot of paperwork we’re having to go through to make this happen.”
The company has been awarded a five-year federal grant to re-establish the Shoals-to-Nashville route. Greyhound operated a local route for years, but left in June 2005.
Ray Basden, manager of the Anchor Trailways & Tours office in Tuscumbia, said many people have asked when the service could begin.
“People are excited about having this service once again,” Basden said.
Basden said the service will link the Shoals to the Nashville airport as well as to the Nashville Metro bus and Greyhound bus terminals.
“Which should provide convenience for people trying to catch a flight out of Nashville or having business in Nashville,” he said.
He said details are still being worked out, but company officials have a tentative route in place.
From Lawrenceburg, Basden said the bus will go into Columbia, follow U.S. 31 to Franklin, Tenn., and into Nashville, where it will go to the airport and the two bus terminals.
“We’re looking at a very early run, leaving around 2 a.m. and then returning around 9 a.m.,” Basden said. “The second bus would leave around 5 or 6 a.m., follow the same route, but it wouldn’t return until 9-9:30 p.m.”

Szyperski said new buses, each equipped with a wheelchair lift, electrical hookups, wireless Internet and satellite television, have been ordered. He said he anticipates delivery of the new buses soon.

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