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Green Tortoise bus loading in Seattle's University District, 1984 Green Tortoise's buses for its first two decades or more were secondhand transit buses built in the 1950s and modified by the removal of nearly all seats – replaced by a long foam bed in the rear two-thirds of the bus – and the installation of overhead luggage racks that ...
Coastal Passage: This route was a day trip operating between Seattle, Vancouver, Jasper/Banff on BNSF Railway trackage, intended to provide travelers from the United States with easier access to the other Vancouver-based routes. It was discontinued after the 2019 season due to low demand.
MTR Western was founded in Seattle, Washington in 2003 by Darren Berg with four Prevost H3-45 motorcoaches. By 2007, they were one of the largest premium motorcoach companies in North America, with facilities in Seattle, Portland, Spokane, Eugene, The Dalles, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Vancouver, and Calgary, and winner of the BUSRide 2006 Motorcoach Industry Achievement Award.
The following year, Amtrak launched an agreement with Greyhound allowing for passengers to buy combined bus and rail tickets for connecting services run by the two companies. These services were the predecessors of Thruway Motorcoach. The first Amtrak bus service to bear the name "Amtrak Thruway" was launched in California in 1993. [2]
The US helicopter charter company Blade is wheeling out a luxury bus service from New York City to the Hamptons this May – and tickets aren’t cheap.. Initially founded 10 years ago as a way to ...
The first set of nine express bus routes launched on September 19, 1999, and served regional destinations and 33 park-and-ride lots in the three counties; [33] [96] an existing King County Metro express route from Seattle to Bellevue and Pierce Transit's Seattle–Tacoma express were also transferred to Sound Transit.
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Seattle public buses at a base. Buses with the green-and-yellow livery and blue-and-yellow livery are King County Metro buses; the bus with the white-and-blue livery is a Sound Transit bus. 1 Line light rail trains in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel at the University Street Station