Ashland Bus System (ABS) provides the municipal

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in the City of

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and its nearby suburbs. Unlike many such services, it is operated by the city government itself. Its routes also reach the suburbs, including

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and

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. This is a result of a dispute between those twin cities, and the

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and

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bus system known as the

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, known as TTA. All buses center on Ashland Transportation Center, which is also used by the

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system as well as

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. The service provides interchange between itself and TTA via a TTA bus that travels from

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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,

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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,

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, Deboard Hill, South Ashland, the

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, and Midtown Shopping Center. * Catlettsburg - serving the Ashland Transportation Center, Scope Towers, downtown Catlettsburg, the Boyd County courthouse complex,

, and downtown Ashland.

Fleet roster

Retired

References

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