diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b2fea7e5..915f5021 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ r2d2 = "0.8.10"
 r2d2_postgres = "0.18.1"
 bb8-postgres = "0.8.1"
 bb8 = "0.8.1"
-threadpool = {version = "1.8.1"}
+threadpool = "1.8.1"
 tokio-threadpool = "0.1.18"
 qstring = "0.7.2"
 rand = "0.8.5"
diff --git a/src/maple/gtfs_process.rs b/src/maple/gtfs_process.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9b81205e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/maple/gtfs_process.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+use std::sync::Arc;
+use std::error::Error;
+
+// Initial version 3 of ingest written by Kyler Chin
+// Removal of the attribution is not allowed, as covered under the AGPL license
+
+// take a feed id and throw it into postgres
+pub async fn gtfs_process_feed(feed_id: &str, pool: Arc<sqlx::Pool<sqlx::Postgres>>) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
+    let path = format!("gtfs_uncompressed/{}", feed_id);
+    
+    let gtfs = gtfs_structures::Gtfs::new(path.as_str())?;
+
+    
+    
+    Ok(())
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/maple/main.rs b/src/maple/main.rs
index 966cf102..1b731194 100644
--- a/src/maple/main.rs
+++ b/src/maple/main.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 use service::quicli::prelude::info;
 use sqlx::migrate::MigrateDatabase;
+use std::sync::atomic::AtomicUsize;
+use std::sync::atomic::Ordering;
 use sqlx::postgres::PgPoolOptions;
 use sqlx::query;
 use sqlx::{Connection, PgConnection, PgPool, Postgres};
@@ -12,12 +14,17 @@ use std::time::Duration;
 mod database;
 use std::collections::HashSet;
 use std::sync::Arc;
+use threadpool::ThreadPool;
+use tokio::runtime;
 
 mod gtfs_handlers;
 
 mod chateau_postprocess;
 mod refresh_metadata_tables;
 mod transitland_download;
+mod gtfs_process;
+
+use gtfs_process::gtfs_process_feed;
 
 use chateau::chateau;
 use dmfr_folder_reader::read_folders;
@@ -220,6 +227,25 @@ async fn run_ingest() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
 
             // create thread pool
             // process GTFS and insert into system
+
+            // This will spawn a work-stealing runtime with 4 worker threads.
+            let rt = runtime::Builder::new_multi_thread()
+            .worker_threads(4)
+            .thread_name_fn(|| {
+                static ATOMIC_ID: AtomicUsize = AtomicUsize::new(0);
+                let id = ATOMIC_ID.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
+                format!("catenary-maple-ingest-{}", id)
+             })
+            .build()
+            .unwrap();
+
+             let pool = Arc::new(pool);
+
+            rt.spawn(async move {
+                for (feed_id, _) in unzip_feeds.iter().filter(|unzipped_feed| unzipped_feed.1 == true) {
+                    gtfs_process_feed(&feed_id, pool);
+                }
+            });
         }
 
         //determine if the old one should be deleted, if so, delete it