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Greyhound Passengers Stranded 100 Miles From Destination After Driver Flees Bus
By Chris Morran on November 21, 2011 11:30 AM  
In the public transportation pecking order, riding the bus is somewhere just above sitting in the back of a yak-drawn cart. But there were several passengers on board a Greyhound bus in Missouri this weekend who would probably have chosen that cart because at least they wouldn't have been stranded and without a driver. More »

Locked In A Greyhound Bathroom For More Than An Hour
By Laura Northrup on August 25, 2011 12:09 PM  
What's worse than using the bathroom on a bus? Getting locked in there for an hour and a half. Barbara's mother decided to use facilities half an hour before her bus was due at its destination, but miscommunication meant that a mechanic was never summoned, and she remained trapped for an hour and fifteen minutes. More »

Lost Bull Semen Spill Shuts Down Interstate Ramp
By Laura Northrup on August 24, 2011 3:05 PM  
Greyhound doesn't just transport people across the continent: it transports cargo, too. Yesterday morning, strange canisters that smelled bad and gave off steam fell off a bus in Nashville, confusing emergency services. Were they bombs? Alien probes? No, containers of liquid nitrogen filled with bull semen bound for a cattle breeding facility in Texas. More »

BoltBus Hell Trip: No AC, Windows Shut
By Ben Popken on July 22, 2011 11:00 AM  
Passengers on a BoltBus from New York City to Boston enjoyed an experience akin to traveling inside a self-cleaning oven with wheels yesterday as the air conditioning was off and the windows wouldn't open. Outside the temps were in the 90's. Inside, it was broiling. More »

Don't Give Greyhound Tickets As Gifts
By Chris Walters on July 27, 2010 11:30 AM  
If you buy a Greyhound bus ticket for someone else, Greyhound will charge you a flat $18 "gift ticket fee," which must be the worst named fee in the history of transportation. On short rides, like a one-way trip from Cambridge, MA to Hartford, CT, it bumps the price up from $22 to $40. More »

Greyhound Kicks Passenger Out Of Bus Station For Complaining To Reporter
By Chris Walters on February 3, 2010 5:24 PM  
A Greyhound security guard threatened a stranded passenger in Memphis that if she spoke with a reporter from the local news, he'd kick her out of the bus station. The reporter was there to look at why a group of passengers had been left stranded for 2 to 4 days without any communication from Greyhound, and without any sort of meal or lodging help. More »

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Greyhound Leaves 88-Year-Old Outside Of Locked Station In 38°F Weather
By Chris Walters on January 7, 2010 9:39 AM  
Greyhound left an 88-year-old woman, along with around 30 other passengers, standing outside a locked bus station on Thanksgiving Day on a trip from Chicago to Detroit. Roxanne, who was one of the abandoned passengers on the sidewalk that morning, says that was just the final insult after an entire day of failure on Greyhound's part. She sent a complaint to Greyhound's executives on December 5th, but it was returned. Here is her summary of what happened. More »

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Greyhound Refunds Would-Be Traveler It Stood Up
By Phil Villarreal on December 23, 2009 8:45 AM  
Miriam wanted to take the Greyhound bus on a trip, but it was Greyhound that took her for a ride, refusing for several weeks to refund her ticket, offering only a voucher. More »

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Man In Wheelchair Unimpressed With Greyhound
By Chris Walters on December 21, 2009 2:14 PM  
According to Richard, Greyhound has some real work to do when it comes to making people in wheelchairs not feel like second-class citizens. Even in snowy weather and with delays, you don't really want a driver telling a passenger that he should have brought an attendant if he wanted to get on the bus. More »

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UPDATED: Greyhound Stood Me Up And Won't Refund My Ticket
By Phil Villarreal on December 21, 2009 9:30 AM  
Miriam says she bought a Greyhound ticket in November, but the bus skipped her stop without notifying her. She couldn't get the company to cough up anything more than a voucher for a future trip. She writes: More »

Greyhound Accidentally Charges $1,000 For A $70 Bus Ticket
By Carey Alexander on March 14, 2009 5:50 PM  

—>Greyhound tickets from Raleigh to Asheville cost $67.50, unless you're Meg Stivison. Then they cost over $1,000. Greyhound repeatedly charged Stivison's debit card while insisting that she didn't know the address on her bank statement. Meg ended up driving down to the bus terminal to buy a ticket, but that was just the start of her nightmarish journey...  More »

Greyhound Abandons 60 Passengers In Seattle, Locks Up For The Night
By Chris Walters on December 22, 2008 11:21 PM  

—>Unsafe road conditions in Seattle brought Greyhound's fleet to a standstill on Sunday, which apparently is why they abandoned riders outside in 25 degree weather last night.  More »

Contact Info For Greyhound Bus Lines
By Chris Walters on August 18, 2008 9:18 PM  

—>There's not a lot of contact info on the web for Greyhound or its executives, but one determined customer has put a lot of effort into documenting what there is. Here are mailing addresses and a few unpublished phone numbers for people in the Greyhound executive offices.  More »

Greyhound Tells Passengers With Missing Luggage To 'Get Together And Do Something About It'
By Chris Walters on August 18, 2008 9:00 PM  

—>Is this Greyhound CSR trying to start a revolution among its customers, or simply telling the wife of a passenger that Greyhound doesn't care about lost luggage? She claims he told her to "'get together with everyone else' who lost luggage 'and do something about it.'" Like what—start a support group? Meet him behind the bleachers for a fist fight? Open a detective agency in Tupelo?  More »

Greyhound Pulls "Bus Rage" Ad After Passenger Beheaded, Cannibalized
By Meg Marco on August 6, 2008 10:49 PM  

—>Here's some unfortunate news from our neighbor to the north. In case you haven't heard, there was a violent and unprovoked attack on a Greyhound bus in Canada recently in which on passenger stabbed, beheaded, and cannibalized another passenger. In the wake of this horrific incident, Greyhound is pulling their latest ad campaign.  More »

Greyhound Tickets For Only $2
By Ben Popken on June 12, 2008 2:58 PM  

—>Reader Nico was able to ride Greyhound from New York to Toronto for only $2. That's amazing! Two bucks! We tried to recreate the deal and couldn't, but it looks Greyhound sometimes offers a limited amount of $2 tickets for 6-day advance purchases. Way to go Nico, you are the dealmaster of the day.  More »

Ten-Hour Greyhound Bus Trip Turns Into 26-Hour Odyssey For Teenager
By Jay Slatkin on June 9, 2008 1:16 PM  

—>WAFF reports that Greg Moore, age 15, took a Greyhound bus from Opelika, Alabama to Athens, Georgia which is normally a 10 hour trip. But because of unannounced re-reroutes, the trip was extended to a brutal 26 hours. Greg's family was alarmed because they didn't know where he was during that time, and only received scant information from Greyhound. To make matters worse, $900 worth of belongings had been stolen from his lost luggage which he didn't receive until a week later. More, inside...  More »

At Least 25 Injured On Greyhound Bus, Driver Fell Asleep
By Jay Slatkin on June 4, 2008 12:32 PM  

—>A Greyhound bus carrying 42 passengers tipped over on an Indiana interstate on Tuesday, the AP reports, leaving more than 2 dozen injured. The Indiana State Police say that Darren P. Duke, age 46, likely fell asleep at the wheel while driving on I-65, 15 miles south of Gary. Details, inside...  More »

Dear Greyhound: Thanks For Ditching Me In Philadelphia. May I Please Have My Bags Back Now?
By Carey Alexander on May 31, 2008 5:00 AM  

—>Greyhound ditched reader Austin at a Philadelphia rest stop on the way from Chicago to New York. During the previous stops, the driver clearly announced that the bus was about to depart. This apparently wasn't necessary in Philadelphia, even though Greyhound ordered off all the passengers so the bus could be cleaned and refueled. After thirty minutes, Austin quickly dashed into the bathroom. When he returned, the bus had disappeared with his bag. Now, Greyhound's executive office is refusing to talk to Austin, or provide any compensation for his missing bag.  More »

Travel Between New York And Washington For $1 With BoltBus
By Carey Alexander on March 29, 2008 4:45 PM  

—>BoltBus offers service between Washington D.C. and New York with fares starting at $1. Each ride comes not just with WiFi, but with power outlets at every seat—a luxury usually confined to Amtrak. The downside? (There are several.)  More »