New Owner for San Juan Transit

Kraig Hansen, new owner of San Juan Transit – Tim Dustrude photo

By now you’ve probably heard there’s a new owner down at SJ Transit. Kraig Hansen bought the company from long time previous owner Dan Ward back in October and he has begun operations for the new season this month. He comes here from the City of Everett where has been a Park Ranger and Chief Naturalist for 21 years. However, he is no stranger to the island. He and his wife Cindy have been going back and forth an awful lot, as Cindy is the Curator of Education at the Whale Museum and has been there for the past 6 years.

“The time was right and this was the perfect opportunity for me to finally make the jump and move over here” he says.

For the most part, transit things are not going to change too much, but he will be running 2 Transit routes, 7 days a week on San Juan from May 17th through Sept. 28th, and 1 route each on Orcas and Lopez on weekends, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from June 21st through Sept. 1st including Memorial Day.  He adds, “In order to include and promote San Juan’s Scenic Byway we will continue to make American Camp a destination.”

With 6 busses total, and 1 more on the way, this will leave 3 busses available for daytime charters (and all of them available for evenings).

The website will remain at www.sanjuantransit.com and updated route maps and schedules will be available soon.

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