FREEPORT – Portland Metro bus officials hope to provide information by early next year about where people will get on board and get off the proposed express service, a company spokeswoman said Friday.

Denise Beck, director of marketing for Portland Metro, said the company gathered information from Freeport residents on Nov. 19, during a public informational meeting at the Freeport Community Center. She and Greg Jordan, the Portland Metro general manager, were at the meeting.

“We had good attendance and people were definitely enthusiastic about the service,” Beck said. “There were between 25 and 30 people.”

Metro is the Greater Portland Transit District.

In September, the Freeport Town Council approved spending up to $90,000 for a three-year trial of the Portland Metro service, from Freeport to Portland, with stops in Yarmouth and Falmouth. The company hopes to begin the routes in July or August.

Portland Metro set four large maps up around the community center meeting room, Beck said. Each map contained potential boarding locations and destinations. People at the meeting then stuck small dots at their preferred locations, she said.

“We need to finalize the bus stops,” Beck said. “We only want a couple in each town, because it’s an express service.”

People at the Nov. 19 meeting also were given sheets of paper, asking them to prioritize four amenities that could go on the buses. In past public meetings, several Freeport residents have indicated they would like to see WiFi service on the buses.

Beck said that people also can indicate their bus-stop preferences on the Metro website, www.gpmetrobus.net.

The Portland North Inter-City Express Service would include Freeport, Falmouth and Yarmouth, in addition to Portland.

Metro prepared an 11-page concept report in June.

“There is no public form of transportation in this part of the state,” Donna Larson, Freeport’s planner, said earlier this year.

Larson said that the state did an analysis of public transportation needs in the area three years ago, and used census data to help determine how people travel.

While the fare from Portland to Freeport would likely be $4, taxpayers would have to pick up some of the tab for the Metro pilot program. Town Manager Peter Joseph said in August that the first year would cost the town $20,000; the second year $30,000; and the third year $40,000. The pilot program would end following the third year. After that, the cost to Freeport would jump sharply to more than $77,000 the fourth year and more than $80,000 for the fifth.