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“All this happening at once is really startling,” said Joseph Schwieterman, a DePaul University professor who researches intercity bus travel and directs the university’s Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development. “You’re taking mobility away from disproportionately low-income and mobility-challenged citizens who don’t have other options.”
Roughly three-quarters of intercity bus riders have annual incomes of less than $40,000. More than a quarter would not make their trip if bus service was not available, according to surveys by Midwestern governments reviewed by DePaul University.
Intercity bus riders are also disproportionately minorities, people with disabilities, and unemployed travelers.
A spokesperson for Greyhound, which is now owned by German company FlixMobility, said it strives to offer customers the most options for connections, but has “encountered challenges in some instances.” The spokesperson also said they “actively engage with local stakeholders to emphasize the importance of supporting affordable and equitable intercity bus travel.”
The terminal closures have been accelerating as Greyhound, the largest carrier, sells its valuable terminals to investors, including investment firm Alden Global Capital.
Last year, Alden subsidiary Twenty Lake Holdings purchased 33 Greyhound stations for $140 million. Alden is best known for buying up local newspapers like The Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and The Baltimore Sun, cutting staff, and selling some of the iconic downtown buildings.
Alden has started to sell the Greyhound depots to real estate developers, speeding up the timetable for closures.
“I don’t know the specific details of each building, but it is clear what is happening here: an important piece of transit infrastructure is being sacrificed in the name of higher profits,” said Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, a professor of real estate at Columbia Business School.
“The public sector has turned a cold shoulder to buses,” DePaul’s Schwieterman said. “We subsidize public transit abundantly, but we don’t see this as an extension of our transit system. Few governments view it as their mandate.”
Bus terminals are costly for companies to operate, maintain and pay property taxes on. Many have deteriorated over the years, becoming blighted properties struggling with homelessness, crime and other issues.
But terminal closures cause a ripple effect of problems.
Travelers can’t use the bathroom, stay out of the harsh weather or get something to eat while they wait. People transferring late at night or early in the morning, sometimes with long layovers, have no place to safely wait or sleep. It’s worse in the cold, rain, snow or extreme heat.
Bus carriers often try to switch to curbside service when a terminal closes, but curbside bus service can clog up city streets with passengers and their luggage, snarl traffic, increase pollution, and frustrate local business owners. In Philadelphia, a Greyhound terminal closure and switch to curbside service after its lease ended turned into a “humanitarian disaster” and “municipal disgrace” with people waiting on street corners.
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#politics#infrastructure#bussing#public transportation#mass transit#mass transportation#capitalism#economic racism#the commons#greyhound#flixmobility#greyhound bus#greyhound bus lines#bus stops
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The Chambers Street trolley was powered by expensive conduit electric current under the roadway because the typical overhead wires were forbidden in Manhattan. In the 1920s, most lines were replaced with electrically-powered subways and buses with internal combustion engines. Will electric mass transportation make a comeback?
Photo: Everett Collection/Alamy
#vintage New York#1920s#trolley#trollies#electric vehicles#electric trollies#vintage NYC#mass transport#mass transportation
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#chicago illinois#chicago#L train#1967#60's#60's design#60s#60s aesthetic#mass transit#mass transportation
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#metro north#trains#mass transit#mass transportation#shitpost#public transit#nyc#public transportation#railroad
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Just think of the wonderful mass transit system would be possible if we did not allow drivers to operate under the influence of anything stronger than coffee.
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Thundering river,
An endless flood of vehicles,
All identical.
I cross the rickety bridge,
Resentful of the tollman.
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#urban planning#public health#mass transportation#public transportation#walkable cities#food perspectives#japan
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littlest furth shop
@laikascomet
#i think i had a little too much fun with this lol#i also wanted to draw road boy and other characters but maybe when they actually get introduced#i do have a sketch of him with a lil chainsaw.. im not gonna be normal when he gets introduced man he looks so sillygoofy#if you squint laika's eye marking is a clover yue's is a crescent moon and mars' is a star ^_^#i wanted to give laika an accessory too but i couldnt think of anything.. maybe a stack of pancakes??#im curious to see the apocalypse side of the story too.. like so far we have an idea of the comet fucking everything up#and im assuming that lead to a ripple effect causing the apocalypse but exactly how bad?? i cant wait to find out#rn im kinda piecing stuff together.. larkspur delivers mail in a beat up van so that might mean all transportation is grounded#the buildings we've seen so far are intact like the observatory and turnip's house but idk if thats the same for big cities#laikas playlist only includes songs downloaded on yue's computer and there hasnt been internet in 20 years.. but radio signals might#still work.. if yue grows his own food we can assume that mass production and distribution also isnt a thing anymore#sorry im a sucker for worldbuilding.. and the furth puns are fun to me. i like to think toronto would be clawronto.. and vancouver wld#be nyancouver.. barktic circle.. mewfoundland and labrador.. canyada....#christ i have so many drawing ideas. willow if youre reading this im so sorry youre probably gonna expect to see a lot of drawings frm me#like. i wanna draw laika in the akira bike pose so sosososo bad. IT WOULD BE SO AWESOMECOOL. ill teach myself to draw bikes if i have to#i also wanted to animate laika leekspin.. man#my art#myart#fanart#laika's comet#laikas comet#laika#mars#yue#furry art#fur#littlest pet shop#lps
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Is it weird to say that I'm lowkey delighted by the MB casting? Because seeing that actor reminds me that back when my siblings and I were kids, one time we were refueling the car and WHAM started playing on the radio, so we started miming the entirety of the gas station scene from Zoolander. I got to be Brint and blow everyone up in slow motion, and it was GREAT.
Also it gave me the idea to draw this, so hereyougo :D
Anyway, I'm happily in the 'wait-and-see' camp, and looking forward to see how they adapt the story to the visual medium!
(Also bonus Ratthi speaking truth bombs: )
#system collapse spoilers#the murderbot diaries#tmbd#secunit#asshole research transport#iris tmbd#tarik tmbd#ratthi tmbd#zoolander#i GUESS#martha wells#also YES i just finished reading SC!!! and it was everything i could have ever asked for just by seeing all the iris and peri interactions#also!! im feral that it fits right in with my mass effect AU ngl#competent squad leader iris?!?!? i hold my head in disbelief#another great addition to the series i will be thinking about this for months
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❄❄ kp + text post advent calendar ❄❄
#kp + text post advent calendar#the blanket over the cage being a taser to the back in this case#just Vegas things#kinnporsche the series#kinnporsche + text post#vegas theerapanyakul#vegaspete#text post meme#because the kinnporsche brain rot is still real#fun fact you guys: my city has been pretty much immobilised by an unexpected snow front#aaaand it was our company's Christmas party yesterday#but they just stopped mostly of the public transport in the middle of the night#and you couldn't call a taxi or uber either because the streets were not passable#so we had to walk a few kilometres through insane masses of snow at 2 in the morning QUITE DRUNK#I'm so glad I didn't wear heels or a dress because there would have been NO way to get home like that#I still fell in the snow though 🤣💀#and I'm bonded for life with four other girls now because we'll never forget that experience#so anyway#fun times
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✨🚀✨SENTIENT SPACESHIP💖🚀✨ FINAL REMATCH!
You might have seen and voted in THE FIRST POLL and/or THE SECOND ONE. But here are the winners of both polls (taken by the percentages), so for one last time...
#tardis#hera#asshole research transport#perihelion#moya#the magic school bus#aurora#the heart of gold#edi#hal 9000#rocket#little einsteins#2001 a space odyssey#mass effect#the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy#the mechanisms#farscape#the murderbot diaries#wolf 359#doctor who#polls#my polls
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Buses and passengers outside the All American Bus Depot, 1940s. The Port Authority’s terminal didn’t open until December of 1950.
Photo: Classic Stock/Alamy/Time Out NY
#New York#NYC#vintage New York#1940s#bus terminal#bus depot#vintage bus#autochrome#mass transportation
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So Hyrule Warriors The Imprisoning War when Nintendo?
#I really would only allow another like non canon non mass au of this era if it meant more of the past lol#age of calamity was a game I only played once honestly but I would SO dig an imprisoning war Hyrule warriors game#and like this time link CATCHES Zelda’s hand and they both get transported into the past lol#I just kinda need it haha#Sonia and link interacting??? Zelda and link in the past??? I NEED IT#the legend of zelda#zelink#botw zelink#totk zelink#totk Zelda#totk sages#totk link#loz totk spoilers#loz totk#loz tears of the kingdom spoilers#loz tears of the kingdom
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Starting on Monday June 19th, all Metro North customers get a FREE vial of testosterone with their ticket! Also starting Monday June 19th we will be banning all cis people from Grand Central Terminal.
#lgbt#queer#transgender#unreality#trains#mass transit#mass transportation#public transit#public transportation#metro north#nyc
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BDSM - Buses Do So Much (for the environment) T-Shirt
$35.00
Show your pride for the dominance of public transportation.
100% cotton classic black tee.
Not sold cropped, but recommended.
All orders go to support Streets for All's continuing advocacy for safer streets in Los Angeles.
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why cant they just make the 99 toyota corolla forever that car should be made in perpetuity because it simply cannot be killed and that would likely be better for the environment than filling every car with lithium
#i dont think we'll ever truly escape the need for ICE cars so they should be made as reliably as possible#im not pro car expansion obvs#i think they will be invaluable in the (re)transition to mass rail transit#because that will take a long fucking time#and it would be good for folk in more remote areas to have a reliable and efficient form of transport even post re-railification#plus they would be good cars for a library economy for when certain trips that require moving an awkward amount of stuff long distance#and also ICE cars dont have to run on petrol either#they can be tuned to run nearly identically on basically any liquid that burns#so you could tune it to run on ethanol for example#or biodiesel#or fuckin anything there are likely even more efficient alternatives out there that dont pollute anything too#we just need to research it lol
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