Las Vegas Sun NewsGreyhound launches 5-hour, Las Vegas-Los Angeles bus route
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5 November 2012
9:54 a.m.
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5 Nov. 2012 11:51 a.m.
Express bus service to and from Los Angeles is returning to the Las Vegas market this week with the launch of a new Greyhound Express route on Wednesday.
Dallas-based Greyhound Lines, the largest intercity bus service in North America with 3,800 destinations, announced that its Greyhound Express subsidiary will offer five daily express buses to Los Angeles with departures at 5 a.m., 8:40 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 5:10 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. Return trips leave Los Angeles at 12:30 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 3 p.m. and 10:45 p.m.
The trip takes about five hours.
Buses will have free WiFi and reserved seating. Ticket prices range from $25 to $67.50 one way, with a limited number of discounted tickets offered for $1.
It’s the first scheduled express bus service between the two cities since 2007, when the United Kingdom-based Stagecoach Group offered Megabus service on buses leased from Coach USA. That route lasted only 10 months before ending operations in June 2008 because of lack of ridership.
Lux Bus America also offers express bus service between Las Vegas and Anaheim, Calif.
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The "first" express bus service? I don't think so. Try LuxBusAmerica.com .
This could be an interesting trial run for how profitable it would be for the so-called desert express that people keep trying to promote. If the bus service is a bust, I wonder how investors can continue to ask for millions and billions of dollars for a bullet train.
I don't think the cost of driving your car is more expensive than alternative transportation at this point -- especially if you consider that you have to purchase a ticket for each member of your party.