Towns must do without Greyhound

0 Comments | Oakland Tribune, Apr 23, 2005

THE Greyhound bus doesn't stop in Davis any more. Or Woodland. Or Auburn. Or Petaluma. Greyhound recently stopped serving 64 California communities. A transportation option is gone.

As a private company, Greyhound Lines is doing what makes financial sense, focusing service in larger communities.

But when communities lose their Greyhound stop, an important link is lost with the outside world. Some communities had nothing but that Greyhound bus stop.

Small towns throughout the country may lose their train service as well under a proposal by the Bush administration to chop up Amtrak into a collection of regional urban train lines. It costs too much money, so the new thinking goes, to run trains across rural America. The old ethic of tying rural and urban America together is sadly fading away, and there is nothing in sight to take its place.

Sacramento Bee

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