The Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority, commonly known as "KRT" is the city bus

Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...

 system for the Charleston, West Virginia

Charleston, West Virginia

Charleston is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha Rivers in Kanawha County. As of the 2010 census, it has a population of 51,400, and its metropolitan area 304,214. It is the county seat of Kanawha County.Early...

 metropolitan area.

The tax supported system was founded in 1971 after the Greyhound

Greyhound

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 Corporation and the privately owned Charleston Transit Company ceased intra-city bus service following a strike.

The system ranges throughout the Charleston metro area, from the campus of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology

West Virginia University Institute of Technology

West Virginia University Institute of Technology is a four-year college located in Montgomery, West Virginia, United States. It is the largest regional campus of West Virginia University and is separately accredited from the main campus of WVU in Morgantown...

 in Montgomery, West Virginia

Montgomery, West Virginia

Montgomery is a city in West Virginia, along the Kanawha River. Most of the city is in Fayette County, with the remainder in Kanawha County. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 1,942 ....

 in the south east, about 45 miles west to Nitro, West Virginia

Nitro, West Virginia

Nitro is a city in West Virginia, along the Kanawha River. Most of the city lies in Kanawha County, with the remainder in Putnam County. The population was 7,178 at the 2010 census.Nitro was incorporated in 1932 by Circuit Court.- City name origin :...

. All buses centralize on the former Laidley Street in downtown Charleston, which is now known as the Transit Mall and is restricted to buses only.

The KRT also is involved in a Joint Venture

Joint venture

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 with the Tri-State Transit Authority

Tri-State Transit Authority

The Tri-State Transit Authority , which markets itself as "THE Transit Authority, is the city bus system in Huntington, West Virginia and Ironton, Ohio as well as its suburbs. Its buses range, on the West Virginia side from 19th Street West in Huntington to Milton, West Virginia, about 20 miles to...

 known as Intelligent Transit

Intelligent Transit

Intelligent Transit is a joint venture bus service of the Tri-State Transit Authority and the Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority system, which operates a twice per day bus link between downtown Huntington, West Virginia and downtown Charleston, West Virginia, with stops at the...

 which provides a link between Charleston and Huntington, West Virginia

Huntington, West Virginia

Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia, along the Ohio River. Most of the city is in Cabell County, for which it is the county seat. A small portion of the city, mainly the neighborhood of Westmoreland, is in Wayne County. Its population was 49,138 at...

.

Routes

All routes depart from Downtown Charleston.

No.	Route Name	Terminus	Service Times
1	St. Albans/West Charleston	St. Albans	7 day service
2	Kanawha City/Cabin Creek	East Bank	7 day service
3	Dunbar/Nitro	Nitro Marketplace	7 day service
4	Woodward Drive	Woodrum Park	Weekday service
5	Tyler Mountain/Cross Lanes	Nitro Marketplace	Mon-Sat service
6	Elkview	The Crossings Mall	Mon-Sat service
7	Campbells Creek	Cinco	Weekday service
8	Sissonville	Sissonville	Mon-Sat service
9	Montgomery/Elksdale	Montgomery or Leewood	Weekday service
11	Oakridge Drive/Wertz Avenue	Charleston Heights	Mon-Sat service
12	Garrison Avenue/Hillsdale	Hillsdale	Mon-Sat service
13	Beech Avenue	Cato Park	Mon-Sat service
15	South Hills	Ashton Place	Mon-Sat service
16	South Park/Memorial Hospital	South Park	Mon-Sat service
18	Fort Hill/Montrose	Riverwalk Plaza	Mon-Sat service
20	Virginia Street	Government Complex	Mon-Sat service
21	Southridge/Alum Creek	Alum Creek	7 day service
22	Montgomery/Quincy	WVU Institute of Technology	7 day service
23	Clendenin	Clendenin	Mon-Sat service
24	Sugar Creek	Sugar Creek	Weekday service
28	Hillcrest/Northgate	Northgate Business Park	Mon-Sat service
34	Downtown Trolley	(Downtown Loop)	Mon-Sat service

Electric buses

Public transportation officials hope that a small fleet of new hybrid electric-diesel buses. The seven new vehicles were purchased with funding provided by the federal Diesel Emissions Reduction Act

Diesel Emissions Reduction Act

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, as well as $1.73 million in stimulus funds awarded to the state Department of Environmental Protection

Department of Environmental Protection

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 and the state Department of Transportation

Department of Transportation

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's Division of Public Transit