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Lynx (stylized as LYNX) is a transit system serving the greater Orlando, Florida area. Operated by the Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority, it provides bus, curb-to-curb, and paratransit services in three counties: Orange, Seminole, and Osceola. Bus routes are referred to as Links.
3.24 New York. 3.25 North Carolina. ... Daytona Beach Greyhound Station; Orange Park Florida; Orlando Station; ... New York City; Trailways Bus Station, Rochester;
Effective June 25, 2014, Greyhound reintroduced many much longer bus routes, including New York–Los Angeles, Los Angeles–Vancouver, and others, while increasing frequencies on existing long-distance and ultra-long-distance buses routes. This turned back the tide of shortening bus routes and puts Greyhound back in the position of competing ...
More than 250 buses, operated by competitors such as Fung Wah Bus Transportation and Lucky Star Bus were competing fiercely from curbsides in the Chinatowns of New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. [88] When operating on inter-city routes, the Chinatown buses offered prices about 50% less than Greyhound's. [88]
The immediate predecessor of the Florida Greyhound Lines (GL) was the Florida Motor Lines (called also FML), which began in January 1926 – when the firm of Stone and Webster, a multistate public-utility management-service company, established a headquarters in Orlando for the FML and consolidated several properties which it had bought and operated in the Sunshine State.
Regular route bus ridership in the United States had been declining steadily since World War II despite minor gains during the 1973 and 1979 energy crises. By 1986, the Greyhound Bus Line had been spun off from the parent company to new owners, which resulted in Greyhound Lines becoming solely a bus transportation company.
Trailways of New York once owned the Central Union Bus Terminal, also known as the Dixie Bus Center, which opened in April 1930 in what was then the Dixie Hotel in New York City. At the time, it was the largest enclosed bus station in New York.
The 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m 2) bus terminal has 26 bus bays, [3] a customer service counter, 2,400 square feet (220 m 2) of retail space, [8] and an air-conditioned waiting area. [ 4 ] [ 9 ] SunRail trains board on a pair of side platforms on the eastern end of the terminal, while buses for LYMMO, a free circulator route serving Downtown ...