Word: greyhounds
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...Boston-NYC bus market is getting even more crowded, though. For the traveler who eschews both convenience and culture, there is now the standard corporate offering. Late last year Greyhound introduced a $20 one-way fare from Boston to New York on popular routes. These so called “penny fares” are being used on a trial basis, according to a Greyhound spokesperson. This representative denied the new fares were an attempt to rival the Chinatown shuttle or any other cheaper option offered in the Boston area...
Time is money, though, and even three cut-rate busing options don’t entice Michael B. Blumberg ’05. “The Greyhound and Chinatown shuttles are cheap,” he says, “but the four to five hours of travel and the lack of guaranteed seating are why I much prefer to spend a few extra bucks for the Delta shuttle...
...money. But as he sat there facing her interrogation, he changed his mind. "I was on the run for two years once. I know how to do it. But I'm 41 years old. I'm tired of running." So the next day, instead of taking Greyhound south, he went to his parole officer. He walked into her cubicle, as hundreds of others have, sweating, shaking, wondering if he would leave in handcuffs. But after he agreed to commit to a drug-treatment program and stay clean, he got a second chance. "He wants to do the right thing," said...
...Train? Here?s where the good news starts. Amtrak says it's getting 10 percent more inquiries about tickets for the Thanksgiving period than it did a year ago, when the passenger rail service carried 567,000 people, said spokeswoman Karina Van Veen. And Greyhound Bus Lines reported a 20 percent surge in advance-purchase tickets for the Thanksgiving period and an increase in trips longer than 1,000 miles...
...course, if Bin Laden were quite the supervillain we've sometimes made him out to be, some may imagine we'd have seen some more explosions in America by now. But the anthrax thing and the Greyhound thing and the Russian plane thing all turned out to be ordinary human catastrophes, red herrings, false alarms - "isolated incidents." (That, incidentally, will be the next cool cultural buzzword for this war, replacing the now-too-creepy "collateral damage...