Larger locales Greyhound doesn't serve

[golden eagle]

A co-worker told me last week that Greyhound doesn't serve Grenada, MS, anymore. I was really shocked by that. Grenada is a community of about 15K along I-55 and is a control city for I-55 from Jackson northward. My co-worker's mom lives in Grenada and her brother was going to ride the bus there (he had been out of town driving trucks, but quit his job), but after finding out that Greyhound doesn't stop in Grenada anymore, she picked him up in Jackson and drove him up to Grenada.

[roadman65]

I do not think it even stops in Vadalia, GA anymore along the US 1 corridor.  I stopped there, as it was considered a meal stop on my route, back in 92 or 93.  The station was there in late 90s, but when there in 05 it was gone.

Vidalia is a large town for that region of mid-Georgia and you figure it would still be.  The Greyhound webpage does not even list any US 1 towns in GA south of Augusta for booking.

[NE2]

Honolulu.

[huskeroadgeek]

Some of this depends on whether you are talking strictly Greyhound, or any bus company. Greyhound abandoned some routes in the central US back in the mid 2000s and they were taken over by smaller companies. My hometown of Lincoln is no longer served by Greyhound, but it is served by Burlington Trailways and Black Hills Stage Lines, both of which connect with Greyhound eastbound in Omaha and westbound in Denver.

I just checked the Greyhound website, and they do serve Grenada, MS, but there is only one bus in each direction each day. The northbound bus to Memphis arrives at 5:20 PM and the southbound bus to Jackson arrives at 9:40 AM. With only one bus per day however, it may be difficult to make connections without a long layover in either Memphis or Jackson.

[huskeroadgeek]

I do not think it even stops in Vadalia, GA anymore along the US 1 corridor.  I stopped there, as it was considered a meal stop on my route, back in 92 or 93.  The station was there in late 90s, but when there in 05 it was gone.

Vidalia is a large town for that region of mid-Georgia and you figure it would still be.  The Greyhound webpage does not even list any US 1 towns in GA south of Augusta for booking.

Greyhound has very few routes remaining that don't follow interstates. Most of the non-interstate routes that are still profitable have been taken over by smaller companies.

I haven't taken a Greyhound trip in awhile, but I took quite a few trips in the early to mid 2000s, and in some of the larger stations occasionally they would have outdated route maps on the wall. It was interesting to look at those and see all of the routes they used to run that they have long since abandoned.
I never took it myself, but I remember when they had that US 1 route through Georgia.  When I was taking trips in the early to mid 2000s, I made my own list of routes off the website so I could have an easy reference. I believe the US 1 route through Georgia was an alternate Charlotte to Jacksonville route. The main route went down to Columbia and then I-26 and I-95 through Savannah to Jacksonville. The other route went down I-85 to Greenville and then took US 25 to Augusta and then US 1 to Jacksonville.

[roadman65]

I do not think it even stops in Vadalia, GA anymore along the US 1 corridor.  I stopped there, as it was considered a meal stop on my route, back in 92 or 93.  The station was there in late 90s, but when there in 05 it was gone.

Vidalia is a large town for that region of mid-Georgia and you figure it would still be.  The Greyhound webpage does not even list any US 1 towns in GA south of Augusta for booking.

Greyhound has very few routes remaining that don't follow interstates. Most of the non-interstate routes that are still profitable have been taken over by smaller companies.

I haven't taken a Greyhound trip in awhile, but I took quite a few trips in the early to mid 2000s, and in some of the larger stations occasionally they would have outdated route maps on the wall. It was interesting to look at those and see all of the routes they used to run that they have long since abandoned.
I never took it myself, but I remember when they had that US 1 route through Georgia.  When I was taking trips in the early to mid 2000s, I made my own list of routes off the website so I could have an easy reference. I believe the US 1 route through Georgia was an alternate Charlotte to Jacksonville route. The main route went down to Columbia and then I-26 and I-95 through Savannah to Jacksonville. The other route went down I-85 to Greenville and then took US 25 to Augusta and then US 1 to Jacksonville.

I was on the Chicago to Jacksonville route at that time.  I got on at Asheville, NC (their station was on Tunnel Road just east of the Tunnel) and it went down I-26, US 25, US 25 Business, back on US 25 to Augusta, then down US 1.  At Swainsboro, the bus veered off on GA 297 to Vidalia, stopped for 45 minuets or so as that was a meal stop to provide time to stretch and eat at the snack bar inside the terminal.  It left Vidalia via GA 15 & 29 only to rejoin US 1 all the way to Jacksonville.  I had to switch again to another route that went from Jacksonville to Miami, via Orlando as that is where I finally got off as I live near Mickey. This next one I am sure is still in use.

[huskeroadgeek]

I do not think it even stops in Vadalia, GA anymore along the US 1 corridor.  I stopped there, as it was considered a meal stop on my route, back in 92 or 93.  The station was there in late 90s, but when there in 05 it was gone.

Vidalia is a large town for that region of mid-Georgia and you figure it would still be.  The Greyhound webpage does not even list any US 1 towns in GA south of Augusta for booking.

Greyhound has very few routes remaining that don't follow interstates. Most of the non-interstate routes that are still profitable have been taken over by smaller companies.

I haven't taken a Greyhound trip in awhile, but I took quite a few trips in the early to mid 2000s, and in some of the larger stations occasionally they would have outdated route maps on the wall. It was interesting to look at those and see all of the routes they used to run that they have long since abandoned.
I never took it myself, but I remember when they had that US 1 route through Georgia.  When I was taking trips in the early to mid 2000s, I made my own list of routes off the website so I could have an easy reference. I believe the US 1 route through Georgia was an alternate Charlotte to Jacksonville route. The main route went down to Columbia and then I-26 and I-95 through Savannah to Jacksonville. The other route went down I-85 to Greenville and then took US 25 to Augusta and then US 1 to Jacksonville.

I was on the Chicago to Jacksonville route at that time.  I got on at Asheville, NC (their station was on Tunnel Road just east of the Tunnel) and it went down I-26, US 25, US 25 Business, back on US 25 to Augusta, then down US 1.  At Swainsboro, the bus veered off on GA 297 to Vidalia, stopped for 45 minuets or so as that was a meal stop to provide time to stretch and eat at the snack bar inside the terminal.  It left Vidalia via GA 15 & 29 only to rejoin US 1 all the way to Jacksonville.  I had to switch again to another route that went from Jacksonville to Miami, via Orlando as that is where I finally got off as I live near Mickey. This next one I am sure is still in use.

I couldn't remember whether that one started in Asheville or Charlotte. I remember now there was one that went directly south from Asheville without going through Charlotte. I've been through that Asheville station before too-went through it on a Charlotte to Chicago trip.

[NE2]

If you're interested in the history of routes, http://web.me.com/willvdv/chirailfan/greytwys.html has a bunch of information, including which ones evolved from interurban railways.

[golden eagle]

Some of this depends on whether you are talking strictly Greyhound, or any bus company. Greyhound abandoned some routes in the central US back in the mid 2000s and they were taken over by smaller companies. My hometown of Lincoln is no longer served by Greyhound, but it is served by Burlington Trailways and Black Hills Stage Lines, both of which connect with Greyhound eastbound in Omaha and westbound in Denver.

I just checked the Greyhound website, and they do serve Grenada, MS, but there is only one bus in each direction each day. The northbound bus to Memphis arrives at 5:20 PM and the southbound bus to Jackson arrives at 9:40 AM. With only one bus per day however, it may be difficult to make connections without a long layover in either Memphis or Jackson.

About a couple of decades ago, a company called Delta Lines began servicing towns in the Mississippi Delta area, so I guess it was possible that Grenada wasn't served by Greyhound itself. But I was going by what my co-worker said, so I should've verified whether or not Greyhound actually did or didn't serve Grenada.

[KEVIN_224]

This makes me wonder if Vermont Transit exists anymore!

Greyhound does serve Vermont, but only has one run in each direction along I-91 from Springfield, MA up to White River Junction, VT per day. Example:

Northbound bus arrives in Brattleboro, VT every day at 11:05 AM Eastern.
Southbound bus arrives in Brattleboro, VT every day at 10:20 AM Eastern.

There's also been three different places serving as agents in Brattleboro, VT during the past 3 years or so. For many years, they operated out of a trailer on US Route 5, fairly close to the rotary from Exit 3 of I-91. Then for a period over 2010-2011, they were at Abraleez Deli/Sunoco, about 1/2 mile further south on US Route 5. Today, the agency is inside of a combined Sunoco/Subway, also on US Route 5. However, this agency is about 1/3 of mile from Exit 1 of I-91, a good 1 1/2 miles south of downtown Brattleboro. It's at least 3 miles south of the former two locations. To be honest, I would rather they were still in the north end of this town of about 12,000.

It should be mentioned that there was a brief period in 2011, where Greyhound was without an agent here.

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A few years ago, Peter Pan bought out the Bonanza Bus Lines group in Providence, RI. Ever since, the direct service between Hartford, CT and Providence has been awful. One run a day in each direction, if that. It's to the point that I end up taking the bus up to Boston and then go down I-93 and I-95 to Providence that way.