Which mainland US states are not served directly by GreyHound buses?
Surprised to learn that Greyhounds Coverage is on a par with rural Ireland(which just has more buses per day on some popular routes) and a poor Railway network. www.buseireann.ie/site/home/ ++++++++++++ 08-09-06, 06:00 PM FredPuli Ah, but Irish buses are often adorned with a picture of a wolfhound so they must be better than a mere greyhound's Wink
08-10-06, 10:48 AM Jenny Roberts I can only find Alaska
08-10-06, 11:11 AM bedstor I don't think Alaska is coverd by Greyhound and its separated like Rhode Island and Hawaii so that leaves 47 States Jenny PS The info is on the site you have (different link) Wink
08-10-06, 12:25 PM DorianGreyed Bedstor, Rhode Island is part of the mainland, contiguous states. While parts of Rhode Island are indeed islands in the Atlantic, the majority of the state is not. Hence, Greyhound covers all of the Lower 48 states. Alaska is also on the mainland of North America.
08-10-06, 12:48 PM bedstor Thanks for that DG ( another topic question on this later) Smile Still want the busless states Smile
08-10-06, 01:09 PM DorianGreyed There are 48 states listed on Greyhound's list of locations by state. (Washington, D.C, is not a state, it is a federal district.) I think it unlikely that Greyhound would list a state that it did not cover. Greyhound, according to their own list, covers 48 states. It does not cover Alaska and Hawaii.
I looked at the listing for each state. Rhode Island and Delaware had the fewest, with 4 stops each. Washington D.C. had two.
08-10-06, 01:37 PM bedstor DG clarifying matters. Its not the bus stops Per state, its if Greyhound travels though the State OK? Say you where travelling directly and the bus services say your ticket is good for that route but you'll have to use a different companies coach Roll Eyes Happens in the UK a lot if there is a breakdown or there is no Bus/train available. Happened in Ireland we had to travel 50 miles by coach becuase a traim had broken down on the track ahead and all trains behind had to return on the double track section was single track for 40 miles beyond!(Note 3 coaches were laid on to move all the passengers!) and there were 2 more trains due on the same route that day Roll Eyes
Gives somebody a bit of a headache moving those 3 buses say 3 round trips of 100 miles in a day and keeping to the timetable Eek
It's just Greyhounds way of solving the Same logistics problem (albeit over many years?) Wink
08-10-06, 02:29 PM DorianGreyed If Greyhound travels to a stop into the state, presumably, it travels into the state. If it travels into a state, presumably, it also leaves the state. Generally speaking, a bus doesn't go to a destination and stop running. It either continues to another destination or turns around. I saw no indication that any state (other than Alaska and Hawaii) does not have a Greyhound station. Is it possible that you are mistaing one of Greyhound's subsidiaries* for a separate, distinct company?
*Hotard Coaches Valley Transit Company Vermont Transit Carolina Trailways Texas New Mexico & Oklahoma Coaches (TNM&O) Laidlaw International, Inc.
08-10-06, 03:01 PM bedstor Just looked again DG and I am still correct about my findings the States are crossed by quote US Connecting Carriers Ps Make it 1 state the other has a direct route just crossing the State Line by say a few miles Be a good question for your quiz game Wink
08-10-06, 04:43 PM Georgia85 Would it be South Dakota?
08-10-06, 04:59 PM bedstor At Last! South Dakota is the only one not served directly by Greyhound www.greyhound.com/locations/routemap.shtml The other State was North Dakota but there is a service which Terminates in Fargo (just on the edge of the map) I womder what the rail service is like in those states if Greyhound does not move people through those areas? Any AP Regular posters from that area care to comment? just found this:
quote: Amtrak, North Dakota’s only passenger rail service, operates the Empire Builder from Chicago to Seattle. It maintains seven North Dakota stations and carries an average of 60,000 passengers a day nationwide, and nearly 83,000 North Dakota riders used Amtrak in 2000.
Thats terrible ,sounds very unfriendly to visitors and residents! Mad
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08-10-06, 05:38 PM FredPuli Not as bad as some, Bedstor. A Member of Parliament for a constituency in Dorset [a rural county in the West of England ] told me that he'd found one bus service that ran only one service a day between two villages. So what was wrong with that? The one bus went out on one day but the return bus was the next day ! Big Grin
08-10-06, 06:11 PM DorianGreyed I tried to confirm this by calling Greyhound, but the representative I got sounded a great deal like some of the customers that I had to 86 from various bars. I actually had to spell the name "Dakota" for her. (I am assuming that she wasn't asking me to spell "South.") As near I as could tell from what she said, Bedstor is right that Greyhound doesn't service South Dakota, although she could have been telling me that my car was finished and ready to be picked up.
08-10-06, 08:59 PM bedstor Many thanks for that DG..learnt something new today (both of us) Smile Last posting should have gone in Bobs topic on DP?
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