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Bull’s eye!

Yes, you can get there from here. Scranton sits smack dab in the center of the target for companies wishing to serve Maine to Virginia and west to Ohio. We’re at the crossroads of five interstate highways and are just a two-hour drive from Manhattan and Philadelphia. We are also an overnight truck delivery to 80 million North American consumers! Click here to see highway maps and distances to key cities.

And oh by the way, our average daily commute to work is just 20 minutes, 20 stress-free minutes that is.

The primary airport serving our area is the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport, which is just nine miles south of Downtown Scranton.

The County of Lackawanna Transit System provides public bus service throughout the county and Martz Trailways has a bus depot on Lackawanna Avenue in Downtown Scranton.

Your company’s rail freight can be shipped and delivered via Norfolk Southern, the Canadian Pacific Railway and several short lines, including the Lackawanna County Railroad Authority. We are even home to the Steamtown National Historic Site, a $70 million rail museum operated by the National Park Service.

But the big transportation news is the return of passenger rail service from Metropolitan New York/New Jersey. If all goes well, by 2010 you’ll be able to board a train in Hoboken, New Jersey and ride all the way to Downtown Scranton. Or, you can hop on board in Scranton, ride to the Hudson River and take the PATH train right into Manhattan. A multi-million dollar intermodal hub (a depot for trains, busses and taxis) will be built Downtown as part of the project.

Just about the only transportation feature we can’t offer in Scranton is barge traffic. But if we just re-route the Delaware River about 100 miles…

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