Comments on: Affordable NYC trips discouraged by Baltimore, welcomed by Megabus

By: Jamie Hunt

Jamie Hunt — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:42:19 +0000

“Several years ago, the City took away Greyhound’s Fayette Street downtown bus terminal conveniently located near the convergence of the entire MTA transit system when they relocated them to the peninsula bus terminal.”

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True, sort of. Pretty sure the Weinberg Foundation owned the terminal building and didn’t renew their lease. Used to work across the street at Catholic Relief Services and so had a front row seat for the ongoing spectacle the Greyhound terminal habitues offered. Interesting to me, depressing to the uninitiated (e.g. those who might consider living in the neighborhood).

By: Jed

Jed — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:33:16 +0000

This is great news. I typically use MVP bus because it is close to my home, but an easy light rail ride would persuade me to use Megabus, especially now that there are more offerings.

I’d never use the greyhound terminal because it is inconvenient to get to. It was a terrible placement, and it’s a ridiculous idea to keep it there.

Good article!

By: SB

SB — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:27:30 +0000

Has anyone used the Cherry Hill station at night? Is that area safe?

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:19:36 +0000

The greyhound terminal location is pretty horrible, and it seems really silly to have greyhound at all these random locations. the travel plaza stop is another place that seems like a place out of the way, where nobody can get t, but where greyhound and the china bus would stop.

one thing about amtrak, baltimore does have a coupon if two people are traveling:
http://baltimore.org/deals-and-discounts
if you go by your $64 fare, you end up getting two for about 100 bucks. still not great considering megabus would be 40 bucks, but yeah, it’s something.