Guess it will soon be the death to them and the end of public transportation travel with it.
Greyhound stopped servicing most of Canada in 2018 (it still partially operated in Ontario and Quebec). In 2021 it shut down completely.
And it sucks, esp in remote areas where there’s few options for healthcare and people have to travel vast distances for kidney dialysis or simple physical exams … never mind holiday travel.
Over here in australia our greyhound is still kicking but not great.
Bus transportation has been in decline for decades. It’s just a terrible form of travel.
North American implementation of bus transit is horrible (I don’t know about the rest of the world) but it is appropriate scale for smaller towns and routes, so we need to find a way to make it work. It seems like it’s been in a death spiral for decades where the worse it gets, the worse the clientele gets and the lower the prices everyone expects.
Maybe it’s something that doesn’t work well as a private company.
Or maybe at least the terminals should be publicly operated by the city or town they’re in. Where I live, there’s a focus on “transit hubs” where you try to bring different transportation modes together in one place for synergy. That probably has to be publicly owned
I’m a huge train fan, and firmly believe we can and should serve half the US population with high speed rail. But there’s always that other half the population, with much lower density, that should also have an alternative to cars. Buses, including intercity, really ought to work at that scale
In Switzerland, bus travel (and all the rest of the public transit system, including trains, trams and boats) is fuckin fantastic, just so you know.
But it’s better than nothing … esp when so many do not own vehicles and rail travel still operates in 20th century mode.
If you haven’t noticed that public and private sector resources aimed to support the poor are being removed, this should be a wake up call. The wealthy are pulling out all funding and support to increase their personal profits.
I agree, it is better than nothing.
The USA needs a windfall tax like yesterday.
Or the gov’t could just raise taxes and close loopholes for the super rich.
It’s the only affordable form of long distance travel, though (not counting hitchhiking)
I’d rather ride a Greyhound than take a plane. Greyhound doesn’t make me take off my shoes and sit with my knees jammed into the seat in front of me
It’s not in places that actually know how to do it.
And nowhere in the US knows how to do it.
I ride the buses in NYC frequently. They are fine.
What a sad death of such an iconic service.
Growing up in the 1990s hardcore/punk scene(s), myself and friends took Greyhounds everywhere. As did a lot of homeless punk kids back then. For friends I knew that were being physically and/or sexually abused, Greyhound was their only way out.
A lot of memories there.
Why do we refer to these types of companies as “investment firms”? They aren’t investing in anything unless stripping litterally anything of value and then shoving the shell that is left into bankruptcy is investing. A lot of times they even saddle the purchased company with the costs of being purchased.
Gods I wish we like actually tried and got semi-nationalized intermodal transportation in this country right, and not the gods awful disgusting mess we ended up with.
It’s sad, but what do you expect when such infrastructure is held privately? If they provide such an important public service, they should be publicly owned.
Wait … was grayhound public before?
No. But just as airlines use public airports, so too could cities have public bus terminals.
Wow, didn’t think Greyhound could get shittier.
I blame Vince Lee. Ever since he did what he did greyhound has never recovered.
Holy Shit.
This year, Li’s petition was granted. A judge on the Manitoba Criminal Code Review Board ordered Li to be discharged and ruled that there shall be no legal obligations or restrictions on his independent living.
This is crazy. Thanks for sharing.
