Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chains have been removed from our hands, the stitches from our lips," said Wilkie Edwards, a bus driver in the fishing town of Grenville on Grenada's east coast. The zesty beat of steel-band calypso music from radios and portable tape decks followed the U.S. military patrols as smiling Grenadians surged about the Americans. They offered the soldiers fruit and vegetables and serenaded them with guitars. Women rushed to embrace the young paratroopers. "I feel so settled; I feel so free," declared Linda Charles, a cashier in a reopened gas station in St. George's. With...
poor, the young and the thrifty. In 1947 a cost-conscious traveler could take a six-day trip from Chicago to Washington on a Greyhound bus, spend five nights in a hotel, make sightseeing trips to attractions like Mount Vernon, and spend only...
Today going by bus is far less economical. Even without the hotels and sideshows, it costs $70 to make that 18-hour bus trip from Chicago to Washington (lowest plane fare: $89 on Northwest Airlines). As a result, the popularity of intercity buses has been falling. From a peak in 1974, when gasoline shortages led 168.7 million passengers to leave the driving to them, the number of bus travelers dropped to 125.6 million...
...bus line has been hit harder than Greyhound, the nation's largest, which operates 3,800 buses and carried 57 million passengers last year. In an effort to cut costs, Greyhound last month asked the Amalgamated Transit Union to roll back wages and benefits to levels of two years ago, a cut that Greyhound said averaged about 17%. The union, which represents 12,500 workers, including 7,000 drivers, contended that the pay reductions really totaled between 20% and 25%, and turned down the proposal on the very same day. When the old contract expired last week, the union...
Like many other old-line transportation companies, Greyhound is caught in the middle of federal deregulation of its industry. Since November 1982, intercity bus lines have found it far easier to go where they want and charge what they can, within a "zone of rate freedom" established by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Small regional carriers with lower overhead are now doing battle with