Ashland Bus System

Ashland Bus System
Headquarters	99 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.

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:

Downtown Loop - serving the Ashland Transportation Center, post office, Ashland Town Center mall, and River Hills Plaza (Melody Mountain) shopping area.
Crosstown - serving the Ashland Transportation Center, Midtown Shopping Center, South Ashland, and Scope Towers.
13th Street - serving the Ashland Transportation Center, Midtown Shopping Center, and several points in Westwood.
29th Street - serving the Ashland Transportation Center, King's Daughters Medical Center, Deboard Hill, South Ashland, the YMCA, Ashland Community and Technical College, and Midtown Shopping Center.
Catlettsburg - serving the Ashland Transportation Center, Scope Towers, downtown Catlettsburg, the Boyd County courthouse complex, Kenova, West Virginia, and downtown Ashland.

Fleet roster

Fleet number(s)	Year	Manufacturer	Model	Engine	Transmission	Notes
TY1	2011	Double K	Villager Trolley	Ford Triton
1204-1215	2022	Gillig	Low Floor	Cummins ISL 8.9L	Allison B400R	Replacement for Gillig Phantom buses.
1216-1217	2022	NFI	XD40	Cummins ISL 8.9L	Allison B400R
TY2-TY3	2022	Gillig	Trolley Replica	Cummins ISL 8.9L	Allison B400R
1218-1220	2022	NFI	XD40	Cummins ISL 8.9L	Allison B400R
TY4	2023	Hometown	Main Street	Ford

Retired

Fleet number(s)	Photo	Year	Manufacturer	Model	Engine	Transmission	Notes
1201		2000	Gillig	Phantom	Cummins C8.3	Allison
1202-1203		2002	Gillig	Phantom	Cummins C8.3	Allison

References

External links

ABS Home

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