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The biggest problem intercity buses have is public perception, for better or for worse. In the minds of many, still to this day, the bus is the lowest transport mode in the hierarchy of options - the option of last resort.

About a year back they integrated BOLT into Greyhound's core TRIPS system, where it now corresponds and coordinates with Greyhound. Though separate brands, they are now effectively a Greyhound service running a Greyhound route (at least for the time being). The current BOLT route is...

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Every carrier in that corridor is averaging at or below 50% capacity (25-30 ppl) for peak day schedules, 30% (15-20ppl) capacity for midweek. There are outliers for sure, but that's the general consensus.

On a passenger demand side, it's in the Top 5 for sure. NY-DC is higher - if we're taking the entire Metropolitan DC region (+30 miles), it's 2.5x the size of NY-BOS. On Sunday January 12, 2020, there were 169 departures from Metro NY to Metro DC operated by 12 different brands (10 different...

I'll give you one other factor - the public perception of the brand itself. When you type Greyhound in Google, most days you see negative news and commentary. Their word of mouth reputation is.....well.... It's one thing for a transport company to have a negative reputation and low fares if...

The routes paralleling Amtrak = where there's profitable demand for LD travel. In the era of deregulation, the company's routes either have to make money, have someone else (state, private org) pay for it, or be an essential part of a money making operation to survive. There are no ifs, ands...

While the brand may be in flux, the network will survive in some form through interline agreements, regional operators jumping in to fill the void and state subsidized services (which is one of the few bright spots in the national intercity bus narrative). One overlooked part of the national...

Great recap - one point regarding Flix: many of their West Coast and Texas based routes feature multiple stops in metro areas to create greater access points for people to join the route. "Direct" on the website does not always equal express. For example, their 5:10pm departure from Dallas to...

It's an after effect of the sale of Coach USA from late 2018 to Variant Equity. After taking a year to look at the entire operation, they're starting to pare down operations in low-yield, low growth areas. Leisure operations outside the Northeast have struggled in particular, thus these...

Good day to everyone, I know there are many people on the forum who are interested in bus travel in the US. Last week, the DePaul University Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development released its 8th annual report on intercity bus travel in the United States. Here is the link...

Actually, airline timetables DO have a decent amount of padding, depending on the airline. All airlines include the time needed to taxi around the airport. Look at any airlines schedules from LGA, JFK, EWR, ORD, LAX, ATL, SFO or DCA for example. Every one of them are padded significantly...

I have to disagree with you about the timetables. As someone who designed schedules, driver runs and equipment cycles, I can tell you that there are many, many other factors besides projected driving time that go into schedule design. The published schedules dictate way more than just arrival...

If memory serves me correct, Bolt has 68-70 in that list. I saw 69 arriving in Seattle. To add to Ricky's observation from the Seattle Transit blog, the additional 30 schedules running in the PNW are operated Thursday-Monday. Two additional round trips between POR-SEA and one additional...

Ricky, These buses are not for any upcoming expansions. The service levels there will remain the same at least through the end of the year. They are needed in the Northeast and will stay there. Bolt was given 3 refurbished Prevost H3's for the Pacific Northwest for POR-SEA-VAC. They are...

Portland doesn't have a maintenance base, just a service lane with mechanics that's split in the first few gates closest to dispatch. The buses that are laid up at the gates are the Portland-based schedules. That said, Portland has a sizeable driver base. When Portland needs buses, they call...

Ricky, While I understand your perspective from the view of a customer (more options and frequency)....from GLI's point of view, they will not mess with what they have there.

This year the seasonal adjustments are relatively limited, as compared to previous years. Part of this is the fixed capacity/reserved seating strategy and the fact that they will add planned sections online. Only the actual schedules that are written in the bid are shown on the Timetable.

"Questionable" is for observation and assessment purposes. It means that the decision to add a section was "questionable" because it did not meet the target capacity for calling a section (around 30). It allows the capacity planners to take those results into consideration for the following...

The OP is referring to the last section of Extranet reporting PPB's extra sections over the Northeast Pool.