With the LIFT Public Transit System scheduled to launch LIFT 9 on Monday, August 28, 2006 there will be several modifications to existing routes.  LIFTs 2 and 3 will remain the same, but LIFTs 5, 6 and 7 will have changes.  Here is a brief description of the changes on each route:

 LIFT 5: LIFT5 will no longer service Framingham State College, and will become an hourly route that meets other LIFTs in Downtown Framingham every hour.  On the outbound route, LIFT 5 will make a right onto Homer St, a left on Main Street, and then a right back on Route 135.  In Hopkinton Center, the bus will still make a left onto Hayden Rowe, and will continue to the intersection with Grove Street. The bus will make a right onto Grove, a left onto Pleasant and a right back onto Main Street.  The bus will make the same detour in Ashland on the return trip.

LIFT 6: The LIFT 6 route will not change, but the schedule has been adjusted to make better connections in downtown.

LIFT 7: The LIFT 7 route will also be slightly altered in the Temple Street and Framingham State College areas.  The bus will now turn travel from downtown to the college via Franklin Street.  It will turn left onto Maple Street, then right on State St.  It will stop at May Hall and then turn onto Maynard road.  It will turn left on Salem End Road, right on Temple Street and left onto Route 9. The rest of the route will remain the same.  The bus will take the same route on the return trip to downtown.

Lift 9

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