A daily transit service with trips between Montrose and Ouray won’t start until later this month, due to delays in a state contract.

The Ouray County Workforce Transportation Project, which was set to launch May 26 in time for Memorial Day weekend, now has a tentative launch date of June 15.

That’s because the Colorado Department of Transportation hasn’t signed the contract for the project, which is being largely funded by a $533,091 grant from the Multimodal Transportation and Mitigation Op...