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The Luzerne County Transportation Authority provides bus service in Wilkes-Barre, Pittston and 29 other municipalities in northern Luzerne County using a fleet of Gillig Phantom and Advantage buses. The buses operate Monday to Saturday, except major holidays, and meet at the Public Square at the intersection of Main Street and Market Street in downtown Wilkes-Barre. Riders can make connections with COLTS in Pittston and the LCTA offers service to Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, also served by COLTS. In addition, the special Transportation Efforts Program (STEP) is available in the General Service Area of the LCTA. STEP permits approved disabled persons to ride on vans operated by the Luzerne/Wyoming Counties Department. In total, the LCTA serves a population of about 320,000 people.

All photos are by the webmaster.

	701 is a 1997 Gillig Phantom, seen at the Public Square in front of the Kirby Theater on Sept. 5, 2008. This bus is wrapped with an advertisement for a local bank.
	702 is another 1997 Gillig Phantom, seen at the Public Square on Sept. 5, 2008.
	704 is wrapped in an ad for a local optician and is shown waiting for riders at the Public Square on Sept. 5, 2008.
	705 was spotted laying up at the Public Square on Sept. 5, 2008, wrapped in an ad for the local newspaper.
	708 is shown on North Main Street on Sept. 5, 2008. The 1997 buses have sliding windows rather than the tip-in windows used on later buses.
	711 was spotted parked at the Public Square on Sept. 5, 2008. This bus is one of the few painted in the new LCTA livery, which is reminiscent of the older paint scheme used back in the 1980s on buses such as the GM New Look. This livery is also used on the new Gillig Advantage buses.
	712 was seen on Market Street on Sept. 5, 2008.
	403 is a 2004 Gillig Phantom, seen waiting for passengers at the Public Square on Sept. 5, 2008.
	406 is another 2004 Phantom, spotted laying up at the Public Square on Sept. 5, 2008. The livery used on these buses is almost identical to that used by the Merrimack Valley RTA in Lowell, Massachusetts!
	408 was spotted at the Public Square on Sept. 5, 2008.
	409 is shown at the Public Square on Sept. 5, 2008.
	601 is a 2006 Gillig Phantom, spotted at the Public Square on September 5, 2008.
	602 is another 2006 Phantom, seen on South Main Street in downtown Wilkes-Barre on Sept. 5, 2008.
	602 was seen again, this time at the Public Square on Sept. 5, 2008.
	606 is shown parked at the Public Square on Sept. 5, 2008.
	609 was spotted at the Public Square on Sept. 5, 2008. Because Gillig stopped making the Phantom in 2008, the LCTA started purchasing the low-floor Advantage buses, starting in 2008.

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