![]() ![]() Same with Everett Station (which requires a lot of stoplights to get in and out of). Every bus doesn’t need to serve Pacific Central Station. Probably the reason for the camper/RV craze.Īnother thing I would like to see on Seattle->Vancouver routes is better options regarding pick-up points within the two cities. So the demise of Greyhound in some ways is a good thing because the service was slow and uncomfortable, and today those riders can afford better options, and few things are as anonymous s driving a car from A to B, or more flexible when it comes to stops. Folks took Greyhound because they could not afford to fly or own a car. Greyhound flourished in a time when the U.S. Maybe better and more extensive and heavily subsidized rail between high profitable markets and cities. Maybe a much better interstate highway system too. I would think low-cost airline carriers hurt, the sheer size of the U.S., and fewer and fewer folks going to and from small towns, which they can do in a car as well. Obviously, what is challenging Greyhound is the loss of profitability. ![]() Try renting a car or booking a hotel room (unless for the hour) anonymously. I don’t think I would be keen on getting on a bus through some pretty rural areas with a bunch of folks who demand, or need, anonymous ticketing. I imagine security regulations, and just common sense, ended anonymous ticketing. No way a parent would do that today, and neither would an airline or other public carrier - especially Greyhound with its customer base - because of the liability. The ride was sloooooooooow with lots of stops along the way. When my younger brother and I were pretty young in the 1960’s my mom would put us on a Greyhound bus with a packed lunch to visit my older brother in Spokane. They could have at least kept the stops along major highways and made them “on call” rather than eliminating them altogether. Their third mistake was abandoning small towns. I’m guessing the reason they didn’t make it 18 is due to the college market and the fact that there are a significant number of 17 year old college students. They also raised the minimum age to travel independently from 12 to 15, and later to 17. They weren’t seriously enforcing the ID requirement last time I went Greyhound, but that was several years ago and may have changed (for the worse IMHO). You now have to give your name and, in theory, show ID. One of the company “reforms”, replacing an open ticket system with tickets for specific trips and eliminating stopover privileges, was the first of their bad ideas.ĩ/11 brought the second of their “reforms”, which may have been due to government regulations and not their fault: eliminating anonymous ticketing. IMHO, their downfall started with the strike in 1989. They’ve abandoned Canada except for a few cross-border runs from the US, they quit stopping in small towns, and many of their new policies suck. The service map is a joke compared to that in the 1980s, their last really good decade. with stops at Pacific Central Station, Bellingham and Everett before arriving in Seattle by 3:55 p.m. with stops in Everett and Bellingham, crossing the U.S.-Canada border and stopping at Pacific Central Station and Richards Street-Waterfront Station between 11:30-11:40 a.m.īuses heading to Seattle will leave Richards Street-Waterfront Station at 12:45 p.m. Vancouver-bound buses will leave Seattle (6th Avenue and S. Service details below:įlixBus’ first cross-border routes between Seattle and Vancouver will run 5 days per week in each direction on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays, and will also include stops in Everett and Bellingham, Washington. The Seattle-Vancouver service will be FlixBus’s second cross-border route, after the NYC-Toronto and Buffalo-Toronto routes, which only just launched this month. With COVID restrictions continuing to have latent impacts at the border, it remains to be seen how quickly cross-border intercity transit can recover. The suspension of Cascades service along with the folding of BoltBus last year has proven to be a double whammy for anyone hoping to get between Canada and the U.S. The German-based intercity carrier is launching a new Seattle-Vancouver route, slated to begin service this Thursday, June 2nd. With Cascades service between Seattle and Vancouver out for most of the remainder of 2022, cross-border travelers between the cities will have a new option in FlixBus. ![]()
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