If someone took it over and cared about intercity bus transportation could it be good?
>>2023472What's wrong with grayhound?Last time I used grayhound it was fine. Did it go up in price or something?
America direly needs high-speed rail.
>>2023472Bus lines actually have competition. Until COVID, there was Megabus which had dirt-cheap fares in major corridors. Smaller, private lines work well, I took a shuttle from Houston to College Station after flying, it was comfortable seats on a fast, 90-minute route home.>>2023485No, it doesn't.
>>2023483This thread is up on /o/ too.Most people there say they don't like the service.https://youtu.be/z8QGTaGwxxc?si=8XeHoFhax7RrDOLc
>>2023601how is the richest country on earth this much of a shit place to be? does nobody care about fixing things? is it an ideological issue?
>>2023892>>2023601>how is the richest country on earth this much of a shit place to be?Going to America and taking a Greyhound bus for transportation is like going to a restaurant, deciding to eat the moist towelettes, and leaving a one-star review.
>>2023894the point is that things shouldn't be that way, other countries have functional and safe long distance busses. a more accurate analogy would be going into a restaurant asking for a glass of water and you get sodomised with a moist towelette instead. and it's not just the grayhounds, it's every single public space and basic public function.
>>2023601I always felt these scenicruisers were one nudge away from being double-deckers. There must be so much underutilized space beneath that upper deck
>>2023472There's not much greyhound itself can do to become a more ideal mode of intercity transit. Cities and their metro areas can prioritize it more but allowing greyhound stations to be in the heart of downtowns and by ensuring their major arterials have dedicated bus lanes that private bus companies are allowed to use. That would make it better, but at the end of the day, Megabus and greyhound were never going to be the best way to get between Dallas and NYC
>>2023896regional bus companies can be pretty good, my family went on a couple trips from dc to new york and back on vamoose. the buses were clean and had internet before it was the norm (and still better internet than current greyhound), complimentary water, they made sure everyone talked at a reasonable level and no poors.
>>2023472Does anyone know if Flixbus is just as bad as Greyhound?
>>2023892>how is the richest country on earth this much of a shit place to be?because the riches in america are completely meaningless due to how utterly selfish americans are. first of all, the vast majority of the wealth is concentrated in the small group of ultra wealthy people and families, so the "vast wealth" of the country is somewaht of a farce. but more than that, because americans are so pig-headed and selfish, they will never want to do anything that contributes to a public benefit. the only thing they care about is what benefits or affects them personally, and that is what benefits them economically. and the politicians on both sides in this country, rather than trying to develop policies that help us, instead want to keep us all distracted with completely meaningless culture war bullshit so that we fight each other, like any of us citizesn actually matter, while the politicians and oligarchs toast each other and laugh with each other about how big of fucking retards we are.my home region of the bay area california (yeah go ahead and spew vitriol at me) is a great example of this. one of the richest areas of the country and really the entire world on its own due to the tech industry, should have so much money that makes it where people can live somewhat well and in harmony. instead, what is it? its full of homeless, a handful of major cities overun by crime, and the one of the very few actually good, beneficial public services it has (the subway system) is facing such a massive budget deficit that it may be out of business within a few years. because everyone here is fucking selfish and only cares about their own personal little bubble and tesla car.so yeah, in short, no one cares about fixing things, if its not something that personally affects them. most people dont use greyhound, so they dont give a shit if it sucks. and thats the ideology of americans.
>>2023601First couple of minutes of that was pretty funny. Dude instantly found out why Americans use cars and sprawling suburbs - the eternal Nigger. I wonder if he shouted at some American "why didn't you pick your own fucking cotton?"
>>2027570bought a "flixbus" ticket, it turns out they were selling tickets for another service on their website, ended up on Miller Transportation, 40 minutes late to the station, be aware
>>2023483>>2023892I think the key problem is GHETTO ASS BULLSHIT. Not easy to solve.
>>2027630>they will never want to do anything that contributes to a public benefitPeople who say these things like usually have nothing to give themselves, it's always someone else's problem>my home region of the bay area californiaSo one of the most liberal, highly-taxed areas is not enough because people are too "selfish"? Is this an admission that liberals are worse people and taxes are meaningless without charity, or whining that it still isn't enough?
>>2023892>does nobody care about fixing things? is it an ideological issue?yeah pretty much. everything must be private, and the profits must always go up, infinite growth from a finite world, etc, etc
>>2023472Greyhound buses are literally only used for one thing and that is dumping homeless and illegals in California and then immediately heading back to go get more homeless and illegals to dump on California.>as a California resident I can whole heartedly say we richly deserve what we get for all of our faggotry.
