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Fred,
Back in their hey day Greyhound would only haul standees in areas where equipment and drivers were too far away or in commuter situations. Back when a lot of college students used to ride the bus, it would be possible to pull into a small college town and pick up the capacity of the bus in one stop on a weekend. I have riden as a standee or suitcase sitter on Greyhounds several times. In the Pgh area the locals coming into the city from Uniontown, PA. almost always had standees during rush hours. One place I always had to stand from was a little stop at a restaurant south of Pgh called Sweeney's junction. It was far enough out of Pgh that the transit authority did not handle so Greyhound hauled a lot of commuters. With only one door in an intercity bus, each time the bus would drop off someone, the whole line of standees would have to exit the bus for each person that was stuck somewhere in the rear of the bus that wanted off. Then the standees would have to pile back on the bus until the next drop off stop, which was just about anywhere along the route. It has not been that long ago that you could stop a Greyhound bus on a local route, just about any place by just waving from the street corner. Today everything runs as express. It is not a good idea to haul standees on an express route, but I have seen some leaving Columbus headed for Pgh with standees, but these buses do make some intermediate stops about an hour out of town.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----From: Fred HowardSent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 7:26 PMSubject: [greyhound through express] 80 passenrgers on a Greyhound
In the news, AP is reporting that a Greyhound bus, carrying 80 passengers, went off the road near Madison WI and injured 17 people. I know Greyhound is short of driveable buses and drivers, but are they really squeezing 80 people into a 55 passenger bus. The liabilty would bankrupt them if they had a major accident with 80 people\. Any thoughtFred
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