Ashland Bus System

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Ashland Bus System
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Headquarters99 15th Street
Locale Ashland, KY
Service type bus service
Website ABS Home

Ashland Bus System (ABS) provides the municipal bus service in the City of Ashland, Kentucky and its nearby suburbs. Unlike many such services[ clarification needed ], it is operated by the city government itself.[ citation needed ] Its routes also reach the suburbs, including Ceredo, West Virginia and Kenova, West Virginia. This is a result of a dispute between those twin cities,[ citation needed ] and the West Virginia and Ohio bus system known as the Tri-State Transit Authority, known as TTA.

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All buses center on Ashland Transportation Center, which is also used by the Greyhound system as well as Amtrak.

The service provides interchange between itself and TTA via a TTA bus that travels from Ironton, Ohio across the bridge into Ashland and the Ashland Transportation Center. It however does not interchange with TTA in West Virginia, even though the buses pass within a few blocks of one another.

Routes

The system offers five scheduled bus routes:

Fleet roster

Fleet number(s)PhotoYearManufacturerModelEngineTransmissionNotes
TY12011Double KVillager Trolley Ford Triton
1204-12152022GilligLow FloorCummins ISL 8.9LAllison B400RReplacement for Gillig Phantom buses.
1216-12172022NFIXD40Cummins ISL 8.9LAllison B400R
TY2-TY32022GilligTrolley ReplicaCummins ISL 8.9LAllison B400R
1218-12202022NFIXD40Cummins ISL 8.9LAllison B400R

Retired

Fleet number(s)PhotoYearManufacturerModelEngineTransmissionNotes
12012000 Gillig Phantom Cummins C8.3 Allison
1202-12032002

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