What was supposed to be a 12.5 hour trip to SWVA turned into a 22 hour trip - all because my first bus from NYC was an hour late. So, of course, I missed all of my connecting buses. I was pissed. It’s not fun to travel when pissed.

The worst part was their customer service - which is the worst I’ve ever experienced. I’m NEVER taking that stupid bus ever again. Except for when I have to get to Northern VA on Sunday.

After that, I’m done. I hate Greyhound sooooo much.

ALBANY, NY—In one of the most merciful disasters in recent years, a Greyhound bus traveling from Rochester to Albany, NY skidded into a ditch Tuesday, killing a dozen deadbeat fathers and penniless addicts, and putting nearly 20 more hapless bastards out of their misery.

According to Greyhound officials, the fatal crash occurred less than an hour after passengers gathered their pathetic belongings and dragged what little hope they had left onto the despair-soaked bus. Emergency crews called to the scene described the remains of the victims as "slightly more lifeless than they were before the accident."

"This is by far the saddest thing I've ever witnessed," said head rescue worker Charles Rabnett, referring to the sea of fast-food wrappers, losing lottery tickets, and scorched corpses that littered the crash site. "We've done our best to contact family members and loved ones, but so far we've only been able to reach four parole officers and 10 AA sponsors."

Added Rabnett: "Dear God, what a terrible waste of my time."

While officials are still not sure what happened aboard the Albany-bound bus, a number of theories have been posited, including icy roads, low visibility due to fog, and the likelihood that the driver, Ron Jenkins, fell asleep at the wheel after spending a restless night consumed by his failures as a husband.

Police investigators also suspect that the cause of the accident may have been as simple as "these luckless bastards getting shit on by the world one last time."

"Dental records have helped identify only two-thirds of the casualties, as the remaining 10 passengers were discovered to have none of their original teeth left," Albany police chief Henry Goodwin said. "Among those, one is believed to have been a recently disowned teenage mother, the other an elderly widow forced to pawn her favorite necklace in order to purchase a bus ticket, and what appears to be the hollow shells of several middle-aged men."

No survivors were reported following the accident. In addition, initial surveillance of the wreckage seems to indicate that those who managed to pull their world-weary bodies out of the overturned bus, gave up on their wretched existence within minutes. According to paramedics, it is likely that many of the casualties had suffered during the crash, and, if not then, for years earlier.

"Thank heavens nobody made it," said chief paramedic John Thurston, who described the "disturbing smell" at the scene as a combination of gasoline, body odor, Aqua Velva, and relentless disappointment. "For a second there, I was worried I'd actually have to interact with some of these people."

In response to the relative tragedy, Greyhound has agreed to donate $200 worth of rolled quarters and greasy, crumpled dollar bills they had collected as bus fare to a local charity. The casualties of the crash will also be memorialized with a small commemorative plaque that will hang at the Albany station, between an out-of-order vending machine and a set of bathrooms where customers can often be heard weeping.

"It's hard to believe that something like this could even happen," said Albany resident Carl Robinson, who, since losing his home to a fire earlier this month, has been sleeping in the city's dilapidated bus station. "To know that life, no matter how dreadful or hopeless, always has a chance of coming to an end—it's so inspiring."

As of press time, hundreds of men and women had gathered at the site of the fatal accident to mourn the loss of a perfectly good bus.

Greyhound owns your mom.

People talk shit, but I love Greyhound. It's the last great American mode of transportation. You get to see the REAL America, inside and out, through the scenery and the people who ride it.

>>69750
>>You get to see the REAL America, inside and out, through the scenery and the people who ride it.

>>You get to see the REAL America

This is why greyhound sucks. No middle-class american from a big city wants to be surrounded by toothless hicks who don't believe in evolution and twitchy methheads who want to share jesus with you for hours on end. The real america is an ignorant, hate-filled tribal cesspool.

>>69759

The Greyhound station in Atlanta isn't just deep in the hood. It's UNDER the subway station and between the Atlanta City Jail and the "Magic City" strip club. The last time I went through there, a homeless guy tried to follow me into the bathroom, and probably rob me, but I foiled his plan by not pulling my pants down, thus not giving him a chance to hit me while I was incapacitated.

The last time I've ridden Greyhound for any purpose was when I totaled my car in Louisiana. Because of the way the routes work, I had a 6 hour layover in Jackson, Mississippi and a 22 hour layover in Birmingham with nothing to do. None of the stations have Wi-Fi, so you just sit there in a station, waiting for a bus that's never on time, fending off bums and praying to God that you don't have to take a shit.

You should see the Seattle station. Place dates back to the 1920s, it's cracked and dirty, and it's a constant bum hang-out. What's sad is it's a company station (as opposed to an independent contract agency like most stations are), and should have been fixed up as part of the "Moving Forward" or whatever campaign that came about once the kilt-wearers took over.

This Vietnamese guy who took over the station snack bar (which at one time was a Burger King, but is now a Pho joint) keeps the snack bar door to the sidewalk closed because of all the bums that come in. So now if people just want a bowl of Vietnamese soup, they have the go in through the bus station. No matter who ran the snack bar, it was always scummy anyway. Once I ate there when it was a "Travelers Grill", and their burger gave me the shits. When it was a Burger King, the food was all right, though i swear to God I had to place my order in Spanish.

The station itself looks like the janitor and maintenance personnel don't give too much of a shit. Security does enough of a job when they need to. The bathrooms are smelly and kinda creepy. But at least there's an arcade. Every time I pass through Seattle, there's the same old Dr. Who pinball machine.

The Seattle station isn't long for this earth, though. The neighborhood around it is being gentrified six ways to Sunday. Where once stood a typical bus station area ghetto has become gleaming offices and fancy condos. Naturally, the richie-boos don't want something as unsightly as an intercity bus station in their neighborhood. There are plans to move the station to a different part of Downtown Seattle--perhaps even to King Street Station--but as usual there hasn't been anything to come of it yet. Typical politics.

What's weird is that Seattle's station, while scummy, never struck me as unsafe. There was adequate security, it was just a few blocks from a Seattle PD precinct, and the travelers tended to keep to themselves for the most part.

Denver's station...the things I could say. Fucking plug-ugly, you get all types of the lower echelons of society, and the company employees there just don't give a fuck. When I went through there, some negro low-life wanted to "buy my camera". The Greyhound phone cards were a supreme rip-off; five bucks wouldn't even buy you a few minutes on a payphone after charges. There were a couple instances the Denver PD paid a visit to tend to the usual complaints. Lockers, while secure, were fucking expensive. The aesthetic is bland, and the overall vibe of the place is very uneasy. But fuck-damn, was it convenient.

Denver's station is in a relatively nice neighborhood; most of the riff-raff is kept in the station's keep for the most part. A couple blocks away is Sakura Square, which is great for the bus traveler who also happens to be a raging weeaboo. The station is walking distance to the 16th Street Transit Mall and light rail, and the A series regional buses dropped off right where the Greyhounds load and unload. Those are it's only redeeming qualities. For the most part, Denver's station is a glass-and-concrete mausoleum.

The station in Tacoma, Washington is on the milk-run between Seattle and Portland. People either arrive to or leave from the station, though some step off the bus here for a few minutes of puff-puff. It's one of the cleanest stations I've seen, and the nicest people work there. Though I could be biased because I was once a company employee at that depot.

In the wave of Gorman administration cutbacks, Tacoma was downgraded from a company station to an independent agency. This gave the manager (my old boss) a lot of leeway to run the joint his way. A quarter of the station has become a convenience store. A statue of a US Marine in dress blues greets people as they step into the waiting lounge. The boss still has the penchant for old video games in the place, and the change machine keeps "ken I geh change fo a dollah?" requests to a minimum. It's a pretty nice place for being a crackerbox wedged under a transit park-n-ride garage.

The old pre-2000 station in Tacoma was the pits. It was in a shitty downtown neighborhood (that was yet to be gentrified by the Tacoma Convention Center and the UW Tacoma), the restrooms were locked by an iron gate that the agent had to buzz open, there was a huge filthy space where a Post House restaurant used to be, and the 60's-era interior looked horribly dated and terribly grimy. But at least there were the molded plastic "TV Chairs", and at one point the station manager had an "Ehrgeiz" machine. That old station was torn down once the new station opened up at Pierce Transit's Tacoma Dome Station.

Spokane, Washington's station is actually pretty nice. The janitors know what they're fuck they're doing, Securitas guards keep shenanigans in check, flat-screen TVs show Fox News programming, Amtrak and Greyhound seamlessly connect, there's plenty of bathrooms, and the station snack bar makes some good Chinese food (though the people that run it have the typical "Asian businesspeople who haven't assimilated into American culture and society" lack of people skills). The neighborhood around it is meh. But there's lots of video games; including "South Park Pinball", "Big Buck Hunting", and "Strikes & Spares".

On the Seattle to Billings run, Spokane is where the driver kicks everyone off for a 45-minute break, in order to allow the bus to be cleaned and refueled. There's also connecting buses for Portland and Boise. Some take the bus to Spokane to catch Amtrak's "Empire Builder" or vice-versa. No matter the case, you couldn't ask for a better station to be laid over at than Spokane.

I loathe Greyhound.

Planned on going home for the weekend with a friend of mine from Eugene, Oregon to Portland. It's not even a two hour drive, but neither of us have cars so it's time for the bus...or so we thought. We ended up waiting almost three hours in some dingy shit station because there was a problem with the bus. Well, first it came late, at least 45 minutes late and for the rest of the time they were "repairing the bus".

By that point we were pissed off and went to the counter and fought for a refund. Managed to get it back after a couple weeks of dealing with their ATROCIOUS customer service. Never, ever again.

>>69750
Guess what shit-for-brains. It's not even American anymore. FirstGroup own it, a Scottish company. They can't even run trains in this country, so all these other stories sound pretty bang on for something First own. Late, broken down, general shit service. That's my train route to London from South Wales to a fucking T.

I live in NE Pennsylvania. My boyfriend lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

I've been taking a bus there every ~month, with a stop in Manhattan. I take a Martz to NY. It's about $140 round trip.

I'm 16 and haven't died yet. Awesome, aeh?

Havinglivedinthe UK and the US , i can tell you that First Group are a pile of shite on both continents. Last summer i did a trip around the US , and had to take greyhound buses several times , when i couldnt get trains or alternative coach services. I trip planned from New Orleans to D.C. It turned into a 48 hour hell hole. My fellow passengers were good enougth. Many of the snobbish barstards around here would call them lowlifes and scum , but frankly i found the experience fascinating. I shared conversations with veterans , addicts and the homeless. In one case all three. My only complaint about them was for the moron who tried to smoke in the bathroom and cost us 10 miniutes.

My main complaint is with greyhound and the shitty way they run their service. In atlanta , they overbooked the bus by 60 passengers , meaning that we had to wait 8 hours for the next service. A further 6 hours were added in richmond when the driver had to be replaced and a spare wasnt avaliable. The drivers ranged from proffeional to scary , one threatened to throw two guys off for "profanity". THe staff at the stations were unhelpfull and downright rude. THe stations themselves were poorly maintained , decorated in a horrific corporate style , and a den of despair and sorrow.

All in all It was shitty , but a real experience , but next time ill take the train.

So I guess riding out to see Al Stewart in concert is a bad idea...

I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus, rollin' down Highway 41.

I'll catch a Greyhound bus for home, they all say.

Apparently not one person here is from Canada. About a year and a half ago on a bus from edmonton to red river some crazy guy with a bowie knife actually decapitated someone. Now every time I get on the bus in edmonton they search my "carry on baggage" I watched a security guard force some guy to throw away one of those really small orange handled pair of scissors. Decapitating someone with that would be a challenge to say the least

I swear I saw Jerry Garcia on a Greyhound bus about 6 years ago.

I'm 6'4" and these things cram me in so tight I want to cut a guy's head off at random. Incidentally, I am an Edmontonfag.
No way would I take one again for more than three hours.

I have decided to take a grayhound to the nearest amtrack station, and then greyhound to my final destination.

>>69992

In after the Canadian decapitation.

>>70206
STFU & GTFO

The Los Angeles Greyhound station is far from the transportation hubs of the county -- Union Station is one mile north on the same street (Alameda), but there is no direct bus line between the two. (Union Station=Amtrak, urban light and heavy rail, commuter rail, bus connections galore. Best for people going east/north of Downtown). It's also about a mile east of the second major transportation hub, 7th/Figueroa, which has a lot of bus connections and a light rail (goes south) and heavy rail (goes west/northwest) connection.

>>70744

I've heard stories that the neighborhood around the LA Greyhound Station is bad enough to scare a US Marine.

Incidentally, the Greyhound station in Compton is just pissing distance from light rail. But then it's in Compton, and you'd have to connect in LA anyway to get there.

>>70746
I don't know where the Compton Greyhound stop is at. Is it by Compton & Willowbrook or Artesia station? Compton is fine, if you know where you're going and don't stand out in the neighborhood.

LA's Greyhound station is near Skid Row. It is really not a good place to be at night, but during the it's also an ok 'hood cuz everybody is working. Greyhound works great for me because I have to walk one block to catch a bus that drops me off at the Greyhound bus station.

>>70749

Yes, Compton and Willowbrook. I remember riding the Blue Line and seeing it from Compton Station.

>>69832
ahh the seattle station. i once got six bucks worth of quarters from that dr who pinball machine
>>69834
and my home town station, denvers finest. the best bar in town is two blocks away and i got the biggest chunk of hash from some dude out front.
>>69838
and the spokane station is by far the nicest one ive ever seen.

i fucking love this thread

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For the punk motherfuckers that's showin out
Niggaz start to mumble, they wanna rumble
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with a gat that's pointed at yo ass
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with a crime record like Charles Manson
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yo weekly, monthly and yearly
until them dumb motherfuckers see clearly
that I'm down with the capital C-P-T
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So when I'm in your neighborhood, you better duck
Coz Ice Cube is crazy as fuck
As I leave, believe I'm stompin
but when I come back, boy, I'm comin straight outta Compton