The American bus revival
The American bus revival - BBC News
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I didn't realize the extent of British involvement in the bus companies. It probably applies to the Canadian arms of the brands too.
I visit friends in Toronto a couple of times a year (~350 km one way), and the last 2 trips I went by coach (double-decker MegaBus), so I'm apparently part of the bus revival. New, clean double-decker buses, cheap fares, and available wifi. Before these new coaches, I had never gone by bus. My rule of thumb is: I'll go by bus (or train) even if the ticket cost is 2x the fuel I would burn in the car, provided I can do a bit of work (wifi) en route. |
I'll just add:
My biggest complaint about going by bus was the un-skilled, un-smooth driver on one of the trips: full binary pedal usage (gas full ON or brake full ON) in the city portions of the trip made train travel look darn appealing. |
Trains are great until the god dang Duggars get on with 9 screaming kids that make you go hunt for a secluded corner somewhere to get some desperately needed sleep.
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Fire up one of those green Dominican cigars you favor, Frank Lee, that'll send 'em away . . . oh, yeah, no smoking section.
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...a giant, foul, green "gag-master" beans & cabbage & beer phart usually dispenses people to the 'other end' of the bus in no time!
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I wish I could conjure up such a fart at will... it would be useful in many social situations!
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...unfortunately, my wife tells me that I'm too able to do just that too easily (ha,ha).
...and, in two different classifications, too: (1) SBD's and (2) LSR's. |
I have found train travel more pleasant than being crammed into an airplane. I have been on some decent buses too. Fuel for a train is supposedly 248 passenger miles per gallon. Amtrack runs on freight line track which can be a little rough. Buses may get up to 500 passenger miles per gallon but no dining car. Our 4 kids were pretty well behaved going from Buffalo to Fort Worth with a layover in Chicago. There is always Granpap's riddle about what's the grey stuff in bird dirt. It's bird dirt too. Just for show bring some in a pill bottle. ;)
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Trains weigh 100s of tons, and take a lot of energy to get moving. To make things worse, they even go 120 or 160 kph here, despite the relatively short distances. Quote:
And usually, they ain't full. A local supplier has a contract to build 300 US busses, but will build a second construction plant in Macedonia to assemble them, rather than doing so locally. |
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