Posted on 09/14/2024 6:09:00 AM PDT by Salman
As the end date of Greyhound’s lease at its downtown Chicago bus station approaches, the company has begun routing more buses through Gary, Indiana, a new analysis of bus schedules shows.
The changes suggest a proactive response to the potential closure of the downtown station, according to the report from DePaul University’s Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development.
The institute and advocates have been sounding the alarm about the possible closure of the downtown Chicago bus station for more than a year, saying such a move would have repercussions for low-income travelers, residents of communities without easy access to train or airline service, and others who rely on buses to travel between cities, as well as Chicago’s status as a transportation hub.
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A report issued last month, also from the Chaddick Institute, found closing the downtown station would make Chicago the largest city in the Northern Hemisphere without an intercity bus terminal. ...
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... DemocRATs have a lock on the elections.
Megabus ran many buses without a bus station in Chicago.
I caught a Flixbus in Philadelphia under an underpass.
The Flixbus stop in NYC was a vacant lot across from Penn Station.
Imagine a city becoming so much of a hellhole that ...
...adding a Greyhound station could be considered a gain.
Full time derelict and drug seller building now.
I used to go to that station in the mid-80s. Not for the buses, but for the video game arcade, which was pretty good. Here in Arizona, the bus station brings blight and homeless people. The termites already closed down a Walgreen’s at the Glendale Ave location off of 17th, which would otherwise be a prime commercial location.
However, the private bus carrier in the regional, Van Galder then, Coach USA now, I believe, would connect with the bus station and Amtrak.
This is a bit of a big deal for those using regional bus carriers outside of Chicago.
Oh great, where will the homeless shelter now?..
When I was a boy in NC we had Trailways in my town. You had to go to a big city like Raleigh to catch the Greyhound.
In 2001, we were driving to Chicago from South Bend, Ind. after the USC-Notre Dame game to catch a plane home when we passed the exit to Gary. My friend, inspired by the “Music Man” song, wanted to see Gary and asked me to drive through it. I didn’t want to, but did so, against my better judgment.
The place looked like pictures I’ve seen on TV of Gaza. I stopped so he could take a picture, but kept the car motor running, then we hightailed it out of there.
Yes the last time I passed it the off ramp is shut down to it.
I had to go to Michigan City IN for a plant tour about 10 years ago. Flew into Midway and took a bus to Gary where we were picked up. Same impression.
Chicago isn’t alone. Dallas is on the list for bus station closures. Greyhound sold the bus system but retained many of the stations. In one deal, they sold 23 stations for $140 million. Other station locations have been sold directly Greyhound.
It’s actually a sign that the location has commercial development potential if they aren’t going to retain the bus line as a tenant. The Dallas real estate is probably worth close to $3 million to developers. I saw one report that the Chicago location could be worth $30 million.
In comparison, the Germans (FlixBus) bought the bus system for $78 million.
Ep, Jackson’s house and the Gray Dog
That’s the Town that knew me when...
The old Greyhound stations in the big cities are strange places. They were built back when traveling by bus wasn’t such a low-class thing. The architecture tends to be kind of grand with tall ceilings and Art Deco styling and marble floors and stuff. But they are not well maintained now, and the resulting shabbiness gives them a distinctly tragic feel.
The station in Cincinnati (or maybe it was Cleveland) has a big clock in the main hall that sits up high and is surrounded by ornate sculptural metalwork, all of it covered with years of dust and cobwebs, or at least that’s how it was when I passed through it a decade or so ago. It was impossible not to think about how it must have been back in its heyday.
https://www.freshwatercleveland.com/breaking-ground/Masterworks_Greyhound_Bus_station_011024.aspx
I wouldn’t mind trying Vonlane.
It looked like that in 1967 when I drove through headed for Wisconsin.
Greyhound still schedules bus routes? Who knew?
On 9/11 a lot of people had to use Greyhound to get home.
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