Lackawanna Transit Center is the main

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and a proposed

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, operated by the County of Lackawanna Transit System (COLTS). Opened in 2015, the transit center features an indoor waiting area, covered bus bays, a park-and-ride lot, and pick-up/drop-off lanes. , it is served by COLTS, Luzerne County Transportation Authority (LCTA),

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, Martz Trailways, New York Trailways, and Fullington Trailways. Located at the corner of Lackawanna and Cliff avenues in downtown Scranton, the transit center is close to

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, the Electric City Trolley Museum, and the Marketplace at Steamtown. The site is also adjacent to the Pocono Mainline of the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad, and is intended to accommodate proposed expansion of the bus station into an intermodal train and bus terminal with rail service to New York City via the Lackawanna Cut-Off.

History

A groundbreaking ceremony for the Lackawanna Transit Center took place on August 1, 2014. Plans for the project were said to have been "18 years in the making." A ribbon-cutting occurred on November 20, 2015, and the station first served buses on December 7. The total cost came to $12.5 million.

Proposed train station

From 1908 through 1970, passenger trains to Scranton used the

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's large station, now a Radisson hotel. The

Lackawanna Cut-Off Restoration Project The Lackawanna Cut-Off Restoration Project is a New Jersey Transit Rail Operations, New Jersey Transit and Amtrak effort to restore passenger service to the Lackawanna Cut-Off in northwest New Jersey. Started in 2011, Phase 1 of the project i ...

is an ongoing effort to revive passenger rail from New York to Scranton, with construction already underway on Phase I: an

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extension from

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. The bus station was built on the site that had long been considered for Scranton's new train station. In spring 2021, Amtrak announced plans for a potential New York–Scranton route.

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