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Buses. I mean, I'm not sure if the bus comes down from Boston and just picks up more people in New York, or if the bus trip ends in New York and then you have to catch another bus to DC.
The bus usualy do bos-nyc, connect to different bus to DC. There would be very few BOS-DC thru riders due to the length of the trip, vs the shuttle flight/Amtrak .
Some of the buses do NOT run from the Port Authority bus term. they do pickup/drop off on the street to save money. If you are are two differnet bus companies you could have pickup/drop off dozens of block apart.
The bus usualy do bos-nyc, connect to different bus to DC. There would be very few BOS-DC thru riders due to the length of the trip, vs the shuttle flight/Amtrak .
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Incorrect. Megabus has two express buses per day between Boston and Washington with stops only in Secaucus, NJ (rail service to NYC) and White Marsh (Baltimore) MD..
If riding on Bolt, you would have to switch in NYC.
Bolt, Megabus, and a number of the chinatown companies all stage their NYC buses around Madison Square Garden, so it's not too hard to find even though they aren't using the Port Authority terminal. You just have to know which corner your bus departs from.
yeah I'm going boston to DC tomorrow... pretty sure that its non-stop. I actually used that student deal that was posted earlier in the thread. I thought you had to have a .edu email address to sign up, but I just used a .com and it worked just fine. Whatever, its cheap and relatively easy.
Bahaha, that's great. Back when I took the commuter rail from Bridgeport to Danbury last year there was a 5 month stretch where the trains were out of service, so they had to bus us up there. It would usually be 2 busses; 1 an express coach bus that only made like 2 or 3 stops, and the other a city bus that made local stops. Both went to the same destination, so I would always get the city bus because I would be the only person on it after the first stop, so I got interesting conversations from the driver and conductor, because they both ran the same route everyday, so I was familiar with them after a couple weeks. Also, the city bus had to go the local route because there was a low clearance underpass (10"6) that the coach wouldn't have been able to fit through.
One Friday, one of the drivers was out, so they sent a replacement driver on the coach bus, who was doing the local route. After I talked it over with the conductor and driver about how high his coach bus was, and low the bridge was, we both had to pull over on the side of Route 7 and swap places.
My girlfriend takes Megabus from NYC to Boston and back every few months and hasn't had problem. She took Greyhound once (may have been a different itinerary) and they had a bus change somewhere along the route. Apparently the local employees at whatever station they were supposed to switch buses had no idea they were coming. She and all the other passengers had to wait in the middle of the night while they got the nearest driver out of bed at home and down to the station.
Just hope you don't wind up like these guys. (http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/deadly-bus-crash-in-bronx-20110312-lgf - broken link) Shortly after this, the NYPD pulled over 14 buses in one day for random inspections. Literally all 14 of them had to be taken out of service on the spot and towed away for massive violations...
The idea that Greyhound or any other bus company is immune from TSA checks is WRONG. In the Sacramento Greyhound station everyone on the bus had to undergo a baggage check (I mean they went THROUGH our bags).
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