TRANSIT SYSTEMS IN WEST VIRGINIA

NEWER METROPOLITAN AREAS


Harpers Ferry

CITY TRANSIT HISTORY
None known

CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEMS
Eastern Panhandle Transit Authority
Serves Jefferson County


Martinsburg

CITY TRANSIT HISTORY
After 1884 - Martinsburg Street Railroad
Streetcars discontinued
Period of no transit service

CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEMS
Eastern Panhandle Transit Authority
Serves Berkeley County
Additional metropolitan counties:
Morgan County - rural system


Morgantown

CITY TRANSIT HISTORY
1903-1909 - Morgantown Electric & Traction Co.
1909-1912 - Union Utility Co.
1912-1921 - West Virginia Traction & Electric
1921-1927 - West Virginia Utilities Co.
1927-1944 - Monongahela West Penn Public Service Co. (American Water Works & Electric Co.)
1934 - streetcars discontinued
After 1944 - Osgood Bus Lines
Prior to 1973 - Mountaineer Bus Lines

CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEMS
Mountain Line Transit Authority
Serves city and nearby suburbs only
Outlying Monongalia County - rural system
Additional metropolitan counties:
Preston County - Buckwheat Express


Parkersburg

CITY TRANSIT HISTORY
1888-1898 - Parkersburg City Railway
1898-1898 - Parkersburg City and Suburban Railway
1898-1901 - Parkersburg Light, Power and Railway
1901-1916 - Parkersburg Marietta & Interurban Railway
1916-1920 - Kanawha Valley Traction and Electric Co.
1920-1923 - Monongahela Valley Traction Co.
1923-1944 - Monongahela West Penn Public Service Co. (American Water Works & Electric Co.)
1944-1956 - City Lines of West Virginia
1947 - streetcars discontinued
1956-1969 - City Lines of Parkersburg
1969-1975 - Park Transit
1975-1976 - no transit service

CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEMS
Mid Ohio Valley Transit Authority
Serves Wood County
Additional metropolitan counties:
Pleasants, Wirt Counties - rural system


Weirton (Newell)

CITY TRANSIT HISTORY
1905-1913 - Newell Street Railway
After 1913 - Newell Bridge & Railway Co.
Streetcars discontinued
Period of no transit service

CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEMS
Weirton Transit Corporation
Primarily city service
Outlying Brooke, Hancock Counties - rural systems

Weirton area is actually part of the Steubenville OH Metropolitan Statistical Area/transit systems connect in Weirton


Cumberland (MD)/Winchester (VA)

CITY TRANSIT HISTORY
None known in West Virginia

CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEMS
Hampshire, Mineral Counties - Potomac Valley Transit Authority
Also serves Grant, Hardy, Pendleton Counties (classified as rural counties)


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