county of lackawanna transit system service area scranton pennsylvania service type bus routes 30 hubs lackawanna transit center fuel type diesel website coltsbus.com the county of lackawanna transit system colts is the operator of public transport for the city of scranton urban area and its surrounding area of lackawanna county pennsylvania . contents 1 routes 2 fleet 3 connections to other agencies 4 criticism 4.1 ban on religious based content 5 see also 6 references 7 external links routes edit the colts system operates 36 distinct routes . each route may operate at different times other than weekdays . most routes depart from the lackawanna transit center on lackawanna avenue near the mall at steamtown in downtown scranton . 12 jessup 13 drinker marywood saturdays 14 drinker 18 petersburg 21 east mountain 25 valley view 26 hilltop 28 pittston 29 stauffer industrial park via south main 31 old forge 34 keyser valley saturday 35 keyser valley weekday 36 lafayette weekday 37 lafayette oram saturday 38 oram weekday 41 high works 43 viewmont bangor 45 viewmont mall express 46 mall circulator 48 dalton waverly clarks summit weekday 49 dalton waverly clarks summit saturday 50 shoppers special 52 carbondale 53 marywood university of scranton 54 greenridge dickson city 71 evening city circle north 72 evening city circle south 73 saturday night special seasonal 82 simpson carbondale route 6 83 newton ransom 84 chinchilla clarks green justus 96 first friday circulator fleet edit colts operates a mix of gillig branded buses in the phantom advantage and brt models in 30 and 35 foot lengths . in addition some smaller cutaway style vans perform service on lower patronized routes . connections to other agencies edit colts bus service connects to conventional luzerne county transportation authority lcta bus service at west pittston 1 old forge 2 and mohegan sun casino . 3 4 in addition less frequent with lcta meet up with colts buses at the wyoming street transfer center near the mall at steamtown weekdays and saturdays . 5 on lackawanna avenue at the lackawanna transit center colts service connects with greyhound lines 6 frank martz trailways 7 new york trailways and fullington trailways . 8 criticism edit ban on religious based content edit in 2013 after nepa freethought society spent 18 months attempting to advertise their group which used the word atheists colts denied his request calling it too controversial . 9 after trying again with a similar advertisement colts responded by revising their advertising policy to reject all forms of religion based advertisements . 10 as colts had previously allowed several churches a political candidate and a blog that focused on anti semitism holocaust denial and white supremacy to all run advertisements in the past colts was subsequently sued in order to remove the ban . 11 see also edit luzerne county transportation authority references edit lcta route 11 west pittston . luzerne county transportation authority . retrieved 26 september 2013 . lcta route 16 old forge . luzerne county transportation authority . retrieved 26 september 2013 . lcta route 1 miner mills . luzerne county transportation authority . retrieved 26 september 2013 . lcta route 5 parsons . luzerne county transportation authority . retrieved 26 september 2013 . lcta route 17 wyoming valley steamtown pdf . luzerne county transportation authority . retrieved 26 september 2013 . greyhound.com locations states pennsylvania . greyhound lines inc. retrieved 27 september 2013 . locations in pennsylvania frank martz trailways . frank martz trailways . retrieved 26 september 2013 . harrisburg scranton line run schedule pdf . fullington trailways . retrieved 26 september 2013 . mehta hemant 18 september 2013 . least offensive atheist ad ever leads to new advertising policy in pennsylvania county . patheos . retrieved 9 november 2015 . mehta hemant 19 september 2013 . this is how an atheist got an entire transit system to ban religious ads . patheos . retrieved 9 november 2015 . atheists sue lackawanna county transit system over refusal to run ad . the times leader . 28 april 2015 . retrieved 9 november 2015 . external links edit county of lackawanna transit system home retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title county of lackawanna transit system & oldid 729782817 categories bus transportation in pennsylvaniatransportation in lackawanna county pennsylvania navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last 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