This was from a documentary around 1985 on PBS. Greyhound was already in a steady decline from its heyday, but was still very viable. If the stats are remembered correctly, ridership fell from 92MM to 54MM from 1969 to 1979. Nowadays, Greyhound is barely a shadow of its former self. It no longer serves the American Northwest--Minneapolis and Fargo through Billings, Butte, and Spokane to Seattle; nor even Chicago to Omaha; Salt Lake to Reno and San Francisco; basically nowhere north of Sacramento into Portland and Seattle; and so many other wide swaths and paths. By my rough figuring Greyhound is presently barely 25% of its pre-pandemic routes and passenger counts. So damned sorry to see it that way.
This was from a documentary around 1985 on PBS. Greyhound was already in a steady decline from its heyday, but was still very viable. If the stats are remembered correctly, ridership fell from 92MM to 54MM from 1969 to 1979. Nowadays, Greyhound is barely a shadow of its former self. It no longer serves the American Northwest--Minneapolis and Fargo through Billings, Butte, and Spokane to Seattle; nor even Chicago to Omaha; Salt Lake to Reno and San Francisco; basically nowhere north of Sacramento into Portland and Seattle; and so many other wide swaths and paths. By my rough figuring Greyhound is presently barely 25% of its pre-pandemic routes and passenger counts. So damned sorry to see it that way.