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The list excludes charter buses, private bus operators, paratransit systems, and trolleybus systems. Figures for daily ridership, number of vehicles, and daily vehicle revenue miles are accurate as of 2009 and come from the FTA National Transit Database.
Bus service between cities and towns in Florida is provided by a number of private companies. Amtrak Thruway service is offered connecting Amtrak trains to cities off of train routes, including Fort Myers and St Augustine, but tickets cannot be purchased for the bus alone, only a combined bus-rail itinerary.
Martz operates the National Coach Works in Virginia, and the First Class Coach Company Trailways serving Tampa and St. Petersburg in Florida. Martz Bus operates two Amtrak Thruway Connecting Service lines in Florida and Pennsylvania. Martz Group also offers interstate and intrastate charter bus services.
The system originated with coast-to-coast service as the National Trailways Bus System (NTBS). Greyhound Lines had grown so quickly in the 1920s and 1930s that the Interstate Commerce Commission encouraged smaller independent operators to form the NTBS to provide competition.
The safety of intercity bus lines came under scrutiny in 2011 after the World Wide Tours bus crash, operated by one of the Chinatown bus lines, caused 14 fatalities. [25] The National Transportation Safety Board conducted a six-month study and found that while bus travel was considerably safer than by car, curbside buses had seven times the ...
800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. ... Now, one city has proclaimed itself the first in South Florida go with a 100% electric bus fleet: Hallandale Beach. The city sees ...
Megabus (subsidiary of Coach USA) Orange Belt Stages; Palmer Bus Service; Peter Pan Bus Lines; Stagecoach Group; Amtrak Thruway (operated by private companies under contract) Trailways Transportation System (77 independent bus companies in the U.S. entered into a franchising agreement) Trans-Bridge Lines; Washington Deluxe; Vamoose Bus; Van ...
The following is a list of local bus agencies in the United States, ranked by ridership. All figures are unlinked passenger trips for the stated time period and come from the Federal Transit Administration's National Transit Database (NTD). [1]