Bus & coach travel in North America
June 18th, 2009 by Tim Uden
The Wall Street Journal have an article on their site about bus and coach travel in the United States.
It basically says that the standard of coach travel in the United States has improved a lot in recent years, although I would add that most of the improvements have been in the Northeast where there are shorter distances, more customers and more competition between bus and coach operators like Greyhound, Megabus and the various Chinatown bus operators.
Here’s the video from the Wall Street Journal article:
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July 3rd, 2009 at 12:28 am
The bigger the competition between the bus owners, the better it is for tourists! yay!
This will be quite a good review when I go there… 
I have been writing and posting pictures in Baraaza.com for quite a while now…
October 19th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
I have used all three over the years.
Chinabus between philly and NYC is reliable. It leaves you in Chinatown unless you get off at a subway stop by Lexington Ave, if I’m not mistaken.
You have to find the chinatown bus stop, which often requires you to ask for its whereabouts, but aside from that, is timely, and runs on the half hour for most of the day.
Megabus is less frequent, has more upper class occupants, but lets you off at mid-town nyc by a subway station/train station. You catch it from philly right by 30th street train station.
Greyhound works fine. I simply prefer to pay less and get more frequent service.
One warning. Mega bus likes you to have reservations. If you lose your paper, they still have your name, or so I’ve noticed.
Chinabus doesn’t care, as long as you get a ticket and then get on the bus. If you miss it, theres another fairly soon, at least in the NYC-Phila route.