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96-532: Greyhound Lines, Inc. ( Greyhound ) is a company that operates the largest intercity bus service in North America. Services include Greyhound Mexico , charter bus services, and Amtrak Thruway services. Greyhound operates 1,700 coaches produced mainly by Motor Coach Industries and Prevost serving 230 stations and 1,700 destinations. The company's first route began in Hibbing, Minnesota in 1914 and

192-604: A Nelson –Willow Point passenger and freight service in the West Kootenay region of southeastern BC. 1922: Learmonth extended the service eastward to the Balfour area. In a 1923 timetable, Old's Stage was the trading name, which operated a 15-person jitney service, connected by a river crossing to the Procter steamboat landing. On reopening for the 1924 season, the trading name changed to Learmonth. 1925: Before

288-497: A bus station with facilities for travellers or from a simple roadside bus stop . A coachway interchange is a term (in the United Kingdom ) for a stopping place on the edge of a town, with connecting local transport. Park and ride facilities allow passengers to begin or complete their journeys by automobile . Intercity bus routes may follow a direct highway or freeway/motorway for shortest journey times, or travel via

384-515: A scenic route for the enjoyment of passengers. Intercity buses may run less frequently and with fewer stops than a transit bus service. One common arrangement is to have several stops at the beginning of the trip, and several near the end, with the majority of the trip non-stop on a highway . Some stops may have service restrictions, such as "boarding only" (also called "pickup only") and "discharge only" (also called "set-down only"). Routes aimed at commuters may have most or all scheduled trips in

480-411: A few miles per hour. Shakespeare 's first plays were staged at coaching inns such as The George Inn, Southwark . The speed of travel remained constant until the mid-18th century. Reforms of the turnpike trusts , new methods of road building and the improved construction of coaches all led to a sustained rise in the comfort and speed of the average journey—from an average journey length of 2 days for

576-529: A former executive of rival Continental Trailways , who became CEO of Greyhound and relocated its headquarters to Dallas, Texas . In February 1987, Greyhound Lines' new ownership and the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) agreed on a new, 3-year contract. In June 1987, Greyhound Lines acquired Trailways, Inc. (formerly Continental Trailways ), the largest member of the rival Trailways Transportation System , effectively consolidating into

672-610: A freight ship collided with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge , resulting in several vehicles, including a Greyhound bus, falling into the Tampa Bay . All 26 people on the bus perished, along with nine others. This is the largest loss of life on a single Greyhound coach to date. On March 5, 2010, a bus operated by Tierra Santa Inc. crashed on Interstate 10 in Arizona , killing six and injuring sixteen passengers. The bus

768-492: A half after leaving Manchester." A similar service was begun from Liverpool three years later, using coaches with steel spring suspension. This coach took an unprecedented three days to reach London with an average speed of eight miles per hour (13 km/h). Even more dramatic improvements to coach speed were made by John Palmer at the British Post Office , who commissioned a fleet of mail coaches to deliver

864-555: A licence to use the Greyhound name and interline agreements with Pacific Greyhound, Northland Greyhound, and Washington Motor Coach. BC Greyhound (BCG) was established. BCG acquired Interior Greyhound Lines from O.K. Valley Freight Lines, which had purchased the enterprise the prior year. BCG acquired Cariboo Greyhound Lines. 1938: CCG acquired Trans-Continental Coach Lines (TCC) (established 1935) from Barney Olson and Midland Bus Lines of Alberta (established 1926). The latter had bought

960-539: A month later, on October 3, 2001, Damir Igric , a passenger on a Greyhound bus, slit the throat of the driver (who later survived his injuries and was hospitalized) and tried to take control of the bus, resulting in a crash that killed 7 passengers, including Igric, and injuring six other passengers. It was determined there was no connection between the September 11 attacks and this incident. Nevertheless, this raised concern. On September 30, 2002, another Greyhound driver

1056-496: A national bus service. Greyhound was required by the Interstate Commerce Commission to maintain coordinated schedules with other scheduled service operators in the U.S. Between 1987 and 1990, Greyhound Lines' former parent continued to be called The Greyhound Corporation, confusing passengers and investors alike. The Greyhound Corporation retained Premier Cruise Lines and ten non-bus subsidiaries using

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1152-404: A novel feature that prevented the wheels from falling off while the coach was in motion. Obadiah Elliott registered the first patent for a spring-suspension vehicle. Each wheel had two durable steel leaf springs on each side and the body of the carriage was fixed directly to the springs attached to the axles . Steady improvements in road construction were also made at this time, most importantly

1248-573: A rail strike to run a coach service from Bournemouth to London. The service was so successful that it expanded rapidly. In 1920 the Minister of Transport Eric Campbell Geddes was quoted in Punch magazine as saying "I think it would be a calamity if we did anything to prevent the economic use of charabancs " and expressed concern at the problems caused to small charabanc and omnibus operators in parliament. In America, Carl Eric Wickman began providing

1344-570: A reporter ( Clark Gable ) — has been credited by the company for spurring bus travel nationwide. In 1935, national intercity bus ridership climbed 50% to 651,999,000 passengers, surpassing the volume of passengers carried by the Class I railroads for the first time. In 1935, Wickman reported record profits of $ 8 million. In 1936, already the largest bus carrier in the United States, Greyhound began taking delivery of 306 new buses. In 1941,

1440-685: A result of expanding road and air travel, and urban decay that caused many neighborhoods with bus depots to become more dangerous. In 1960, American intercity buses carried 140 million riders; the rate decreased to 40 million by 1990, and continued to decrease until 2006. By 1997, intercity bus transportation accounted for only 3.6% of travel in the United States. In the late 1990s, however, Chinatown bus lines that connected New York with Boston and Philadelphia 's Chinatowns began operating. They became popular with non-Chinese college students and others who wanted inexpensive transportation, and between 1997 and 2007 Greyhound lost 60% of its market share in

1536-424: A speed limit of 30 mph (48 km/h) for coaches whilst removing any speed limit for private cars. The 1930s to the 1950s saw the development of bus stations for intercity transport. Many expanded from simple stops into major architecturally designed terminals that included shopping and other businesses. Intercity bus transport increased in speed, efficiency and popularity until the 1950s and 1960s, when as

1632-571: A subsidiary of the American Greyhound Lines in 1940. In 2018, Greyhound pulled out of Western Canada , preserving only domestic service in Ontario and Quebec, and trans-border routes to the United States. On May 13, 2021, Greyhound Canada permanently suspended operation in all of Canada. Cross-border routes to the United States would from that point forward be operated by Greyhound Lines (USA). 1921: John Learmonth started

1728-544: A through service, but passengers initially had to change buses at the Crowsnest Pass border. Using interline agreements with two Washington -based companies, a Calgary–Edmonton–Spokane– Seattle through service was established. Canadian Greyhound Lines (CG) was formed for Ontario operations. 1931: CCG created interline services with other Alberta and Western US operators. When Greyhound USA sued to restrain CCG from using

1824-556: A wholly owned subsidiary of Dial Corp. 1996: Greyhound Air began scheduled passenger flights with Boeing 727-200 jetliners on domestic routes in Canada in July 1996, suffered heavy losses, and ceased operations in September 1997. 1997: Laidlaw acquired GCT. 1998: GCT acquired Voyageur-Colonial of Montreal. 2007: FirstGroup bought Laidlaw. 2018: Prior to cancelling most all routes west of Sudbury , Ontario, an application

1920-567: Is a bus company that serves the International route such as from Pontianak , Indonesia to Kuching , Malaysia and Bandar Seri Begawan , Brunei Darussalam in Borneo operated by state-owned bus company, DAMRI and some private operators. Another international bus service in Timor connects Kupang , Indonesia and Dili , Timor Leste . Because of the weak-developed rail network and

2016-665: Is a route operated by Antar Lintas Sumatera (ALS) connecting Medan in North Sumatra and Jember in East Java . It is a week long bus travel covering a distance of 2,920 kilometers. The surge in intercity bus travel in Indonesia took place after the completion of Trans-Java highway section connecting Jakarta and Surabaya in 2018. During this time, some intercity bus services began operating fleet of double decker busses . Besides regular domestic public transport, there

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2112-445: Is extensive, intercity coach is a common mean of transport between cities. In some cities, for example Shenzhen , nearly every town / district has a coach station. Coach services can be further categorised into high speed (via motorway, Chinese: 高速客运) and low speed (via national highways, Chinese: 低速客运) services, with the latter stopping along the route to carry rural passengers. The number of people opting for long-distance bus travel

2208-565: Is not available or underdeveloped in other parts of the country. Thus the intercity bus service has become the major provider of land transportation service connecting Indonesian cities, either within an island or inter-island connected through ferry crossings . The intercity bus operator companies in Indonesian with several major companies operating mainly in Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Sumatra. The longest intercity bus service in Indonesia

2304-421: Is on the decline since 2014. Partly this is due to the development of high-speed rail , with train tickets having a similar price to bus tickets, and train services often being much faster, buses are not competitive anymore. Other reasons are the increase in private car ownership and the popularity of ride-hailing . Long distance buses remain popular on routes where train tickets are quickly sold out and where

2400-606: Is the only public transit to reach many urban centres in Canada, and Via Rail services are very sporadic outside the Québec City–Windsor Corridor . Coach service is mostly privately owned and operated, and tends to be regionally focused. Greyhound Canada , once Canada's biggest intercity carrier, ceased operations in 2021. Major operators are listed below. In the mid-1950s more than 2,000 buses operated by Greyhound Lines , Trailways , and other companies connected 15,000 cities and towns. Passenger volume decreased as

2496-639: The Cambridge -London route in 1750 to a length of under 7 hours in 1820. Robert Hooke helped in the construction of some of the first spring-suspended coaches in the 1660s and spoked wheels with iron rim brakes were introduced, improving the characteristics of the coach. In 1754, a Manchester -based company began a new service called the "Flying Coach". It was advertised with the following announcement: "However incredible it may appear, this coach will actually (barring incidents) arrive in London in four days and

2592-600: The National Safety Council . Crashes involving intercity buses can be disastrous in their magnitude because of the large number of passengers they are capable of carrying. For example, the Kempsey bus crash in Australia on 22 December 1989 involved two full tourist coaches, each traveling at 100 km/h (62 mph), colliding head-on: 35 people died and 41 were injured. Intercity coach service

2688-629: The New York Stock Exchange on February 10, 2003 and emerged from re-organization on June 23, 2003 as the successor to Laidlaw Inc. By 2003, Greyhound faced significant competition in the northeast from Chinatown bus lines . More than 250 buses, operated by competitors such as Fung Wah Bus Transportation and Lucky Star Bus were competing fiercely from curbsides in the Chinatowns of New York City , Boston , Philadelphia , and Washington, D.C. When operating on inter-city routes,

2784-564: The Old Washington, D.C. Greyhound Bus Station . Greyhound worked with the Yellow Coach Manufacturing Company for its streamlined Series 700 buses, first for Series 719 prototypes in 1934, and from 1937 as the exclusive customer for Yellow's Series 743 bus (which Greyhound named the "Super Coach"). Greyhound bought a total of 1,256 buses between 1937 and 1939. By the beginning of World War II ,

2880-460: The Saskatchewan operations of Grey Goose Bus Lines in 1936. 1939: TG acquired Canadian-American Trailways of Ontario. 1940: CG acquired TG. TCC acquired Prairie Coach Lines (established 1933). BCG acquired Blue Funnel Lines. A restructuring of the group as Western Canadian Greyhound Lines (WCG) gave Greyhound USA 80 per cent ownership and Fay 20 per cent. 1941: CCG acquired AC, which

2976-650: The Tennessee Coach Company 's entire operation, and the negotiations for the Blue Ridge Lines, and its affiliate White Star Lines, that operated between Cleveland and the Mid Atlantic Seaboard. In 1955, the Interstate Commerce Commission ruled in the case of Keys v. Carolina Coach Co. that U.S. interstate bus operations, such as Greyhound's, could not be segregated by race. In 1960, in the case of Boynton v. Virginia ,

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3072-759: The Yelloway-Pioneer System , which in 1928 made the first transcontinental bus trip, and The Pickwick Corporation . In 1929, the company acquired additional interests in Gray Line Worldwide and part of the Colonial Motor Coach Company to form Eastern Greyhound Lines. It also acquired an interest in Northland Transportation Company and renamed it Northland Greyhound Lines. By 1930, more than 100 bus lines had been consolidated into

3168-555: The 1830s spelt the end for the stagecoaches across Europe and America, with only a few companies surviving to provide services for short journeys and excursions until the early years of the 20th century. The first motor coaches were acquired by operators of those horse-drawn vehicles. W. C. Standerwick of Blackpool , England acquired its first motor charabanc in 1911, and Royal Blue from Bournemouth acquired its first motor charabanc in 1913. Motor coaches were initially used only for excursions. In 1919, Royal Blue took advantage of

3264-588: The 1960s, Greyhound leadership ridership declined and Greyhound used the profitable bus operations to invest in other industries. In 1966, Gerald H. Trautman became president and CEO of the company. In 1970, the company acquired Armour and Company meat-packing company, which owned the Dial deodorant soap brand, for $ 400 million. In 1971, Greyhound moved its headquarters to Phoenix, Arizona . The company also acquired Traveller's Express money orders, MCI and TMC bus manufacturing companies, and airliner leasing. In

3360-762: The Chinatown buses offered prices about 50% less than Greyhound's. Between 1997 and 2007, Chinatown buses took 60% of Greyhound's market share in the northeast United States. In 2003, Greyhound expanded its QuickLink service, Greyhound's brand of commuter bus service that runs frequently during the peak weekday commuting hours. Routes were operated from Sacramento, California to the San Francisco Bay Area and Macon, Georgia to Atlanta. In 2004, Greyhound dropped low-demand rural stops and started concentrating on dense, inter-metropolitan routes. It cut nearly 37% of its network. In some rural areas, particularly in

3456-585: The Greyhound Silversides produced in 1940-1941. Production was suspended during World War II . When the "Silversides" buses resumed production in 1947, it was renamed GM PD 3751. PD 3751 production continued through 1948. In 1954, the first of Greyhound's distinctive hump-backed buses was introduced. In 1944, Loewy had produced drawings for the GM GX-1, a full double-decker parlor bus with the first prototype built in 1953. The PD-4501 Scenicruiser

3552-448: The Greyhound bus's tires. Several miles outside of Anniston, Alabama , the mob forced the Greyhound bus to stop, broke its windows, and firebombed it. The mob held the bus' doors shut, intending to burn the riders to death. Sources disagree, but either an exploding fuel tank or an undercover state investigator brandishing a revolver caused the mob to retreat. When the riders escaped the bus, the mob beat them, while warning shots fired into

3648-430: The Greyhound name, lengthy negotiations began. CG and Gray Coach Lines established Toronto Greyhound Lines, a joint venture, for a Toronto – Detroit route. 1933: CCG acquired Calgary & Eastern Bus Lines (established 1927). 1934: CCG acquired Alberta Montana Bus Lines (established 1930). Arrow Coach Lines (AC) transferred its Alberta routes to CGG. 1935: After negotiating since 1931, Greyhound US granted CCG

3744-502: The Greyhound name, such as Greyhound Leisure Services, Inc. (an operator of airport and cruise ship duty-free shops), and Greyhound Exhibits. In March 1990, The Greyhound Corporation changed its name to Greyhound Dial Corporation. Because Greyhound Dial's switchboard continued to get questions from misdirected bus passengers, it changed its name to The Dial Corporation in March 1991, to eliminate any association with bus travel. In early 1990,

3840-894: The Northeast Corridor, compared to 1.7 billion passenger miles for Amtrak trains. Traditional depot-based bus lines also grew, benefiting from what the American Bus Association called "the Megabus effect", akin to the Southwest Effect , and both Greyhound and its subsidiary Yo! Bus , which competed directly with the Chinatown buses, benefited after the federal government shut several Chinatown lines down in June 2012. Between 2006 and 2014, American intercity buses focused on medium-haul trips between 200 and 300 miles (320 and 480 km); airplanes performed

3936-863: The Plains states, parts of the upper Midwest (such as Wisconsin), and the Pacific Northwest, local operators took over the old stops, often with government subsidies. On February 7, 2007, British transport group FirstGroup announced the acquisition of Laidlaw International for $ 3.6 billion, which closed on October 1, 2007. Intercity bus service Intercity bus services are of prime importance in lightly populated rural areas that often have little or no public transportation . Intercity bus services are one of four common transport methods between cities, not all of which are available in all places. The others are by airliner , train , and private automobile . The first intercity scheduled transport service

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4032-411: The U.S. Supreme Court found that an African American had been wrongfully convicted for trespassing in a "whites only" terminal area. In May 1961, Civil Rights Movement activists organized interracial Freedom Rides as proof of the desegregation rulings. On May 14, a mob attacked a pair of buses (a Greyhound and a Trailways ) traveling from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans, Louisiana, and slashed

4128-529: The U.S. operations of Greyhound Lines, Inc., including Carolina Trailways and other Greyhound affiliates, for about $ 470 million. The acquisition was completed in March 1999. In June 2001, after incurring heavy losses through its investments in Greyhound Lines and other parts of its diversified business, Laidlaw filed for bankruptcy protection in both the U.S. and Canada. Naperville, Illinois –based Laidlaw International, Inc. listed its common shares on

4224-459: The United States. Starting November 2, 1983, Greyhound suffered a major and bitter drivers' strike action . A fatality occurred in Zanesville, Ohio , when a replacement driver ran over a striking worker at a picket line. A new contract was ratified on December 19, 1983 and drivers returned to work the next day. In early 1987, the bus line was acquired by an investor group led by Fred Currey,

4320-544: The acquisitions, most of the remaining members of the Trailways System began interlining cooperatively with Greyhound, discontinued their scheduled route services, diversified into charters and tours, or went out of business altogether. On September 3, 1997, Burlington, Ontario –based transportation conglomerate Laidlaw announced it would buy Greyhound Canada , Greyhound's Canadian operations, for US$ 72 million. In October 1998, Laidlaw announced it would acquire

4416-584: The air by highway patrolmen prevented them from being lynched . Additional Freedom Riders were beaten by a mob at the Greyhound Station in Montgomery Alabama . The Civil Rights Act of 1964 's Title II and Title III broadened protections beyond federally regulated carriers such as Greyhound, to include non-discrimination in hotels, restaurants, and other public accommodations, as well as state and local government buildings. Later in

4512-519: The bulk of longer trips and automobiles shorter ones. For most medium-haul trips curbside bus fares were less than the cost of automobile gasoline, and one tenth that of Amtrak. Buses are also four times more fuel-efficient than automobiles. Their Wi-Fi service is also popular; one study estimated that 92% of Megabus and BoltBus passengers planned to use an electronic device. New lower fares introduced by Greyhound on traditional medium-distance routes and rising gasoline prices have increased ridership across

4608-799: The cancellations were due to declining ridership, which dropped 41% nationwide since 2010 and 8% in Western Canada alone in 2017. The cancellations took effect on October 31, 2018. Greyhound said that the decline in ridership was due to increased car ownership, subsidies to competing passenger carriers, competition from low-cost airlines and regulatory restrictions. COVID-19 caused a 95 percent drop in ridership. Thus, Greyhound reduced service on March 25, 2020 and suspended six routes on April 5, 2020. On May 6, 2020, Greyhound Canada announced it would permanently shut down all its remaining bus services which it did on May 13, 2021. Greyhound refunded tickets and travel vouchers for travel after May 13. Besides

4704-733: The city of Hong Kong and the border crossing at Shenzhen , without entering the city centre in Shenzhen or further. These services are termed 'short-haul cross-boundary coach service' by the Transport Department which nearly the whole journey is within the limits of Hong Kong, as opposed to 'long-haul cross-boundary coach service' which runs between cities. As an archipelagic nation, travel between Indonesian cities are done mostly through air and sea travel. Intercity railways are available primarily in Java and Sumatra , while it

4800-584: The company acquired Greyhound Canada . Between 1937 and 1945, Greyhound built many new stations and acquired new buses in the period in the late Art Deco style known as Streamline Moderne . For terminals, Greyhound retained architects including William Strudwick Arrasmith and George D. Brown . Notable examples of Streamline Moderne stations include the Blytheville Greyhound Bus Station , Cleveland, Ohio Greyhound Bus Station , Columbia, South Carolina Greyhound Bus Station , and

4896-879: The company adopted the Greyhound name in 1929. The company is owned by Flix North America, Inc., an affiliate of FlixBus , and is based in Downtown Dallas . In 1914, Eric Wickman , a 27-year-old Swedish immigrant, was laid off from his job as a drill operator at a mine in Alice, Minnesota . He became a Hupmobile salesman in Hibbing, Minnesota , and, when he could not sell the first seven-passenger Hupmobile that he received, he began using it along with fellow Swedish immigrant Andy "Bus Andy" Anderson and C. A. A. "Arvid" Heed to transport iron ore miners two miles from Hibbing to Alice for 15 cents per ride. Wickman made $ 2.25 on his first run. Wickman almost gave up after

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4992-493: The company had 18 vehicles and annual income of $ 40,000. In 1922, Wickman and Heed sold their interests in the company to Bogan and Anderson. Wickman and Heed then moved to Duluth and acquired White Bus Lines. In 1924, Wickman formed Northland, which acquired the Superior-White Company; its founder, Orville S. Caesar, who had strong business acumen, mechanical skills, and ambition, eventually became president of

5088-570: The company had 4,750 stations and nearly 10,000 employees. Wickman retired as president of the Greyhound Corporation in 1946 and was replaced by his long-time partner Orville S. Caesar. Wickman died at the age of 66 in 1954. Greyhound commissioned industrial designer Raymond Loewy and General Motors to design several distinctive buses from the 1930s through the 1950s. Loewy's first was the Yellow Coach PDG-4101,

5184-604: The company moved from Duluth, Minnesota to Chicago, Illinois . The business suffered during the Great Depression , and by 1931 was over $ 1 million in debt. As the 1930s progressed and the economy improved, Greyhound began to prosper again. In 1934, intercity bus lines, of which Greyhound was the largest carried approximately 400 million passengers — nearly as many passengers as the Class I railroads. The film It Happened One Night (1934) — about an heiress ( Claudette Colbert ) traveling by Greyhound bus with

5280-517: The company was offering $ 10 fares due to competition. In September 1998, Greyhound promised to make accommodations for disabled passengers, including equipping most buses with wheelchair lifts. In the late 1990s, Greyhound Lines acquired two more members of the National Trailways Bus System. The company purchased Carolina Trailways in 1997, followed by the intercity operations of Southeastern Trailways in 1998. Following

5376-542: The company. In 1925, the company completed the $ 2.5 million acquisition of eight independent bus lines in Minnesota. In 1928, Anderson and Bogan disbanded and sold most of the routes of the Mesaba Transportation Company to Northland. The company continued to expand and, in 1928, it had income of $ 6 million and was offering trips all over the United States. In 1929, the company acquired

5472-446: The decline of Pakistan Railways and the unaffordable prices of airplanes for the average Pakistani. Numerous companies have started operating within the country such as Daewoo Express and Niazi Express, Manthar Bus Service and have gained considerable popularity due to their reliability, security and good service. Smaller vans are used for transportation in the mountainous north where narrow and dangerous roads make it impossible for

5568-413: The driver are generally off limits. The growing popularity in the United States of new bus lines such as Megabus and BoltBus that pick up and drop off passengers on the street instead of bus depots has led to a rise in the perceived security of intercity buses. Megabus states that a quarter of its passengers are unaccompanied women. In relatively developed regions of China where the motorway network

5664-713: The drivers' contract from 1987 expired at the end of its three-year term. In March, the ATU began a strike action against Greyhound. The 1990 drivers' strike was similar in its bitterness to the strike of 1983, with violence against both strikers and their replacement workers. One striker in California was killed by a Greyhound bus driven by a strikebreaker, and a shot was fired at a Greyhound bus. While Greyhound CEO Fred Currey argued that "no American worth his salt negotiates with terrorists," ATU leader Edward M. Strait responded that management's failure to negotiate amounted to "putting

5760-561: The establishment of the Harrop Cable Ferry , Learmonth switched his route westward to Trail . Learmonth is believed to have started the new Nelson–Procter service via the ferry. 1928: Learmonth commenced a Nelson– Kaslo service, driven by Herb Harrop. Serving the routes from Nelson were a 20-seat Pierce-Arrow bus named Marjorie to Trail, Muriel to Kaslo, and Patricia to Slocan City . 1929: Roosevelt (Speed) Olson formed Kootenay Valley Transportation Co. (KVT) to take over

5856-439: The first service in 1913. Frustrated about being unable to sell a seven-passenger automobile on the showroom floor of the dealership where he worked, he purchased the vehicle himself and started using it to transport miners between Hibbing and Alice , Minnesota . He began providing this service regularly in what would start a new company and industry. The company would one day be known as Greyhound . In 1914, Pennsylvania

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5952-413: The first winter due to the harsh driving conditions in Minnesota. However, he agreed to continue on by reducing his driving duties. In 1915, he added a 15-mile route to Nashwauk, Minnesota . In December 1915, Wickman merged his company with that of 19-year-old Ralph Bogan, who was running a similar transportation service from Hibbing to Duluth, Minnesota , to form the Mesaba Transportation Company. By 1918,

6048-549: The intra-provincial Greyhound routes. 1945: ECG acquired Nickle Belt Transportation (established 1939) of Ontario. 1948: CG merged into ECG when Central Greyhound Lines disbanded and merged into Great Lakes Greyhound Lines . WCG became the major shareholder in Motor Coach Industries (MCI). By 1950, MCI had solely supplied the whole 129-coach Greyhound fleet. 1956: R.L. Borden became general manager when Fay retired. 1957: Greyhound Lines of Canada (GLC)

6144-544: The last run being on May 30, 2018. Greyhound said it was losing $ 35,000 per day on routes in Northern British Columbia and in parts of Vancouver Island, and had lost $ 70 million in the six years prior to 2018 At the time, BC Bus North stepped in to provide services between Fort Nelson, Prince Rupert, Prince George, Fort St. John and Dawson Creek. Greyhound Canada also terminated service from Prince George, British Columbia to Whitehorse , Yukon with

6240-429: The last trip from Whitehorse occurring on May 30, 2018. From 2014 to 2017, ridership along that part of the route between Dawson Creek and Fort Nelson had dropped from 18,307 to 9,647 passengers. Greyhound Canada announced on July 9, 2018 that it was cancelling all services west of Sudbury , Ontario . The sole remaining route between Vancouver and Seattle would be operated by Greyhound USA . Greyhound Canada claimed

6336-399: The late 1970s, Greyhound began hiring African American and female drivers for the first time. In 1972, Greyhound introduced the unlimited mileage Ameripass. The pass was initially marketed as offering "99 days for $ 99" or, transportation to anywhere at any time for a dollar a day. For decades, it was a popular choice for people traveling across the U.S. on a budget. Over time, Greyhound raised

6432-551: The morning heading to an urban central business district , with trips in the evening mainly heading toward suburbs . Intercity coaches may also be used to supplement or replace another transport service, for example when a train or airline route is not in service. Statistically, intercity bus service is considered to be a very safe mode of transportation. For example, in the United States there are about 0.5 fatalities per 100 million passenger miles traveled according to

6528-505: The movement of larger buses. Most of the time, coaches in Taiwan is driving on Controlled-access highway , so it is mainly called Highway Coach (Chinese name: 國道客運 ). e.g. KBus (國光客運), UBus (統聯客運), HoHsin (和欣客運). Greyhound Canada Greyhound Canada Transportation ULC ( Greyhound Canada ) was an intercity coach service that began as a local British Columbia bus line in the early 1920s, expanded across most of Canada, and became

6624-416: The negotiations back into the hands of terrorists." During the strike by its 6,300 drivers, Greyhound idled much of its fleet of 3,949 buses and cancelled 80% of its routes. At the same time, Greyhound was having to contend with the rise of low-cost airlines such as Southwest Airlines , which further reduced the market for long-distance inter-city bus transportation. Without the financial strength provided in

6720-646: The network and made bus travel cheaper than all alternatives. Effective June 25, 2014, Greyhound reintroduced many much longer bus routes, including New York – Los Angeles , Los Angeles – Vancouver , and others, while increasing frequencies on existing long-distance and ultra-long-distance buses routes. This turned back the tide of shortening bus routes and puts Greyhound back in the position of competing with long-distance road trips, airlines, and trains. Long-distance buses were to have Wi-Fi , power outlets , and extra legroom, sometimes extra recline, and were to be cleaned, refueled, and driver-changed at major stations along

6816-571: The northeast United States to the Chinatown buses. During the following decade, new bus lines such as Megabus and BoltBus emulated the Chinatown buses' practices of low prices and curbside stops on a much larger scale, both in the original Northeast Corridor and elsewhere, while introducing yield management techniques to the industry. By 2010 curbside buses' annual passenger volume had risen by 33% and they accounted for more than 20% of all bus trips. One analyst estimated that curbside buses that year carried at least 2.4 billion passenger miles in

6912-467: The pandemic, Greyhound also blamed ride sharing and subsidized competition from Via Rail for the shutdown, which affected 400 employees. Greyhound Canada planned to sell its bus stations, and to sell its bus fleet. It placed its fleet of 38 buses on auction scheduled for January 18, 2022. Some of the buses feature wheelchair capability, leather seats, multimedia screens and on-board restrooms. Routes listed below are those that were in service prior to

7008-491: The parent company, then called Motor Transit Corporation. Recognizing the need for a more memorable name, the partners of the Motor Transit Corporation changed its name to The Greyhound Corporation after the Greyhound name used by earlier bus lines. According to company lore, that name came from a driver, Ed Stone, who was reminded of a greyhound when he saw a passing bus in a reflection. Also in 1930,

7104-650: The partners Foothills Transportation Co. (FT), which operated Calgary – Nanton, Alberta . 1930: The shareholders formed Canadian Greyhound Coaches (CGC) in Alberta to create a route network within that province and to manage all existing operations. Barney Olson founded Canadian Yelloway Lines to assume the Calgary– Edmonton route when Brewster Transport lost the franchise. The partners amalgamated this business and their other ones as Central Canadian Greyhound Lines (CCG). The Alberta and BC operations became connected by

7200-422: The passenger compartment. In contrast to transit buses, motor coaches typically feature forward-facing seating, with no provision for standing. Other accommodations may include onboard restrooms, televisions, and overhead luggage space. A sleeper bus is an example of a vehicle with optimum amenity for the longest travel times, specially adapted for passengers to sleep in. An intercity coach service may depart from

7296-607: The past by a parent company, the strike's lower revenues and higher costs for security and labor-law penalties caused Greyhound to file for bankruptcy in June 1990. The strike was not settled until May 1993, 38 months later, under terms favorable to Greyhound. While the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) had awarded damages for unfair labor practices to the strikers, this liability was discharged during bankruptcy reorganization. Greyhound agreed to pay $ 22 million in back wages to union drivers, recall 550 of

7392-611: The popularity of the private automobile has increased, the use of intercity bus service has declined. For example, in Canada in the 1950s, 120 million passengers boarded intercity bus service each year; in the 1960s, this number declined to 50 million. During the 1990s, it was down to 10 million. Intercity buses, as they hold passengers for significant periods of time on long journeys, are designed for comfort. Intercity buses, also known as coaches or motor coaches are almost always high-floor buses, with separate luggage hold mounted below

7488-458: The post across the country. His experimental coach left Bristol at 4 pm on 2 August 1784 and arrived in London just 16 hours later. The golden age of the stagecoach was during the Regency period , from 1800 to 1830. The era saw great improvements in the design of the coaches, notably by John Besant in 1792 and 1795. His coach had a greatly improved turning capacity and braking system , and

7584-482: The price of the pass, shortened its validity period and rebranded it as the Discovery Pass, until it was discontinued in 2012. Greyhound acquired Premier Cruise Line in 1984. Between 1985 and 1993, Premier operated as the "Official Cruise Line of Walt Disney World " with onboard Disney characters. In 1983, Greyhound operated a fleet of 3,800 buses and carried about 60% of the intercity bus-travel market in

7680-879: The prior year included widespread proposed service cancellations and reductions. 2021: Prior to ceasing services in Ontario and Quebec, these routes were temporarily suspended in May 2020 because of COVID-19 . During the 19-month closure of the Canada–US border , the respective Greyhound USA routes did not operate. In February 2018 Greyhound Canada received permission to terminate its two remaining routes on Vancouver Island running from Victoria, British Columbia to Nanaimo and Vancouver . Tofino Bus Services subsequently took over these two Greyhound routes. Greyhound Canada terminated service along Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert in British Columbia with

7776-504: The remaining strikers, reinstate most of the 200 strikers who were fired for alleged misconduct, and increase hourly pay for drivers to $ 16.55 from $ 13.83 by March 1998. In August 1991, Greyhound emerged from bankruptcy by which time it had shrunk its overall workforce to 7,900 employees from 12,000 pre-bankruptcy, and trimmed its fleet to 2,750 buses and 3,600 drivers. In August 1992, Greyhound canceled its bus terminal license (BTL) agreements with other carriers at 200 terminals, and imposed

7872-702: The requirement that Greyhound be the sole-seller of the tenant's bus tickets within a 25-mile radius of such a Greyhound terminal. In 1995, the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division brought suit to stop this practice, alleging that it was an illegal restraint of trade, bad for consumers, and reduced competition. In February 1996, the DOJ won its case, and Greyhound agreed to permit its tenants to sell tickets nearby and permit its tenants to honor interline tickets with competitors. Greyhound's total revenues in 1994 were $ 616 million. At that time,

7968-606: The small size of the country and the resulting low domestic air traffic, the long-distance bus cooperative Egged is the main public transport service in the country. Because of the widespread network, Egged is considered one of the largest bus companies in the world, in part because of the long-distance bus lines. However, in recent years Israel railways has expanded and upgraded its route network and other companies have taken over routes previously served by Egged. Intercity bus transportation has risen dramatically in Pakistan due to

8064-415: The three routes, having bought the business the previous November. Learmonth was district superintendent until retirement in 1965. KVT started a Nelson– Salmo – Spokane service. KVT purchased the J. Motherwell operations, the only remaining bus line in the district. Canadian Greyhound Coaches BC (CGBC) was registered. Speed's brother Barney and George B. Fay joined this expanding venture. W.L. Watson sold

8160-525: The train station is located far from passenger destinations. Since 2019, new bus routes longer than 800 km (500 miles) are restricted by law. There are numerous inter-city coach services between Hong Kong and various cities of Guangdong Province , e.g. Shenzhen , Guangzhou , Zhongshan and Zhuhai . These kinds of coaches are legally classified as a kind of non-franchised public bus, as "International Passenger Service". In addition, there are some coach services which just carry passengers between

8256-486: The way, coinciding with Greyhound's eradication of overbooking . It also represented Greyhound's traditional bus expansion over the expansion of curbside bus lines. On August 4, 1952, Greyhound Lines had its deadliest crash when two Greyhound buses collided head-on along then- U.S. Route 81 near Waco, Texas . The fuel tanks of both buses then ruptured, bursting into flames. Of the 56 persons aboard both coaches, 28 were killed, including both drivers. On May 9, 1980,

8352-433: The widespread implementation of Macadam roads up and down the country. Coaches in this period travelled at around twelve miles per hour (19 km/h) and greatly increased the level of mobility in the country, both for people and for mail . Each route had an average of four coaches operating on it at one time – two for both directions and a further two spares in case of a breakdown en route. The development of railways in

8448-410: Was assaulted near Fresno, California , resulting in two passenger deaths after the bus then rolled off an embankment and crashed. Following this attack, driver shields were installed on most Greyhound buses that now prevent passengers from directly having contact with the driver while the bus is in motion, even if the shield is forced open. On buses which do not have the shield, the seats directly behind

8544-463: Was called the stagecoach and originated in the 17th century. Crude coaches were being built from the 16th century in England, but without suspension, these coaches achieved very low speeds on the poor quality rutted roads of the time. By the mid 17th century, a basic stagecoach infrastructure was being put in place. The first stagecoach route started in 1610 and ran from Edinburgh to Leith . This

8640-578: Was created as a public company to administer WCG and ECG operations. Greyhound USA owned 69 per cent. 1958: GLC acquired Moore's Trans-Canada Bus Lines (established 1940) of Manitoba . 1959: GLC became the operating company. 1962: The opening of Rogers Pass established a year-round connected all-Canadian network. 1965: GLC acquired Brewster Transport/Brewster Rocky Mountain Gray Line. 1969: GLC acquired Coachways System, operating in western Canada and Alaska . Late 1980s–early 1990s: Freight

8736-569: Was designed by Roland E. Gegoux and built by General Motors as model PD-4501. The front of the bus was markedly lower than its rear section. After World War II , and the building of the Interstate Highway System beginning in 1956, automobile travel became a preferred mode of travel in the United States. This, combined with the increasing affordability of air travel, led to a decline in business for Greyhound and other intercity bus carriers. In October 1953, Greyhound acquired

8832-406: Was expanding, but passenger traffic rapidly declining. GLC disposed of marginal feeder routes and focused on long haul services. 1992: GLC acquired Gray Coach Lines, based in Ontario, from Stagecoach . 1993: MCI was sold. 1995: A major restructuring placed the intercity bus operations under Greyhound Canada Transportation Co (GCT), 76 per cent publicly owned, while the tourism business became

8928-446: Was followed by a steady proliferation of other routes around the country. A string of coaching inns operated as stopping points for travellers on the route between London and Liverpool by the mid 17th century. The coach would depart every Monday and Thursday and took roughly ten days to make the journey during the summer months. They also became widely adopted for travel in and around London by mid-century and generally travelled at

9024-474: Was not carrying insurance, and had also been operating illegally because the company had applied for authority to operate an interstate bus service, but had failed to respond to requests for additional information. Though generally rare, various incidents have occurred over time involving both drivers and passengers on intercity buses. Security became a concern following the September 11 attacks . Less than

9120-596: Was operating in Saskatchewan. WCG obtained the linking Big Bend Highway route. 1942: CCG bought the Calgary– Banff route from Brewster Transport. The US military contracted CCG to provide a Dawson Creek – Whitehorse service along the new Alaska Highway during World War II . 1944: CCG acquired Clark Transportation Co and Red Bus Lines (established 1929). BCG was merged into WCG. TG was renamed Eastern Canadian Greyhound Lines (ECG). Saskatchewan nationalized

9216-490: Was the first state to pass regulations for bus service in order to prevent monopolies of the industry from forming. All remaining U.S. states would soon follow. The coach industry expanded rapidly in the 1920s, a period of intense competition. The Road Traffic Act 1930 in the UK introduced a national system of regulation of passenger road transport and authorised local authorities to operate transport services. It also imposed

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