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Post #1835167

2026-04-30 12:47 UTC

Fantastic news for intercity bus riders in Philly! No more waiting on the street without heating/cooling or a bathroom! I'll never forgive Greyhound for selling their company to a German conglomerate, liquidating their bus stations and generally degrading their quality of service to the point that I'm no longer willing to ride their busses. They will ruthlessly degrade their own services to make a quick buck. The fact that the city had to step in to get this done when Greyhound is the one making money from the intercity bus riders is insane. I don't know what the ideal model is, but the government should have some kind of control over intercity bus services, these companies can't be trusted not to ruin it. And who is impacted the most by the decline of these services? You guessed it, people who can't afford a car. Philly’s revived Greyhound station is opening Friday for the first time in three years https://www.inquirer.com/transportation/new-philadelphia-intercity-bus-station-opens-filbert-street-20260430.html #transit #Philly #urbanism

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  • @gcvsa@mstdn.plus 2026-04-30 14:02

    @earth_walker@mindly.social Thank heaven! I'm old enough to remember when the Greyhound terminal was still at 17th & Market. I still took the bus home from there when I went to college in Pittsburgh in 1986, after taking Amtrak to 30th Street Station. And then when I lived in Center City in the 1990s, but had a band in South Jersey, I used the new terminal on Filbert.

    Open ##2502177