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Looking for CityBus history and fun facts about the community?

Learn how we came to serve Greater Lafayette by getting anyone where they need to go.
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Looking for CityBus history and fun facts about the community?

Learn how we came to serve Greater Lafayette by getting anyone where they need to go.

Since 1971, we’ve been helping people go wherever life takes them.

We’re just as committed to serving our community as we were on day one! Browse our timeline to see how we got to where we are today.

CityBus History
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We love our community as much as you do!

CityBus wouldn’t be where it is today without an amazing community. Below, we’ve listed a few fun facts about Lafayette, West Lafayette, and Purdue University — a few great places that have helped us grow over the years.
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    The first successful Cesarean birth in Indiana took place in Lafayette under the operation of Moses Baker.

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    Purdue University Airport was the first university-owned airport in the nation.

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    The second annual Indiana State Fair was held in Lafayette in 1853 on the grounds near present-day Fourth and Kossuth streets.

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    Kermit the Frog was named after a Purdue professor of philosophy who was a childhood friend of Jim Henson.

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    Lafayette was founded in 1825 on the southeast bank of the Wabash River, near a spot where the river becomes impassable for riverboats upstream.

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    Robert Baker graduated from Purdue University with a doctorate in food science. He later invented the chicken nugget in 1963, at the time calling it a “chicken stick.”

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Learn more about CityBus:

CityBus has 72 buses in its fleet. Included are buses with lengths of 35, 40, or 60 feet.

19 buses are hybrid diesel-electric.

39 buses run on compressed natural gas (CNG).

CityBus operates a fleet of vans in its ADA Paratransit Service called ACCESS, which serves persons with disabilities.

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