Gothamist: BoltBus: From NYC To DC, As Low As $1

randim

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:44:59 -0500

DON'T TAKE BOLTBUS!!!THEY HAVE NO PHONE NUMBER TO CALL IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG AND THERE ARE PICKPOCKETS AT THE DC STOP which they don't tell you about until you are ALREADY ON THE BUS. Have you ever had your driver tell you to check for your wallets after getting on any other form of transport? I think not! Because they can't be contacted, I the police won't even allow me to REPORT that MY PHONE WAS STOLEN ON THE BUS because they insist I need to check there lost and found AND BOLTBUS DOESN'T HAVE ONE. Yeah, $20 is cheap to travel, but NOT if you add the fact that PEOPLE STEAL PHONES AND IPODS AND WALLETS while waiting for the busses and there is NO ONE to report the problem to!

zodak

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:09:43 -0500

will they be serving jolt?

Armchair_warrior

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:48:31 -0500

its a way to put chinatown buses out of business. once they are out of business, they'll jack up all their prices again. only people who suffer at the end is the consumer.

HughGass

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:07:00 -0500

enjoy watching mothers beat their children on the way to the nations capital

Toby von Meistersinger

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:52:59 -0500

It will probably be safer than a Chinatown bus, since it is going to be a service of a known company compared to some fly by night. Now if they could only do something like this with trains, which are much faster, but run by a crappy monopoly that has to subsidize foamer lines out west.

srm006

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:59:34 -0500

Are you guys kidding? I doubt this will be any worse than any other bus in terms of cleanliness. This is Greyhound, not some bum who bought a bus. I'm assuming it's been started to put the ChinaTown and DCtoNY buses out of business so I'm sure they're going to put a lot of quality control into this. If they wanted to continue to have a crappy overpriced bus service and make money, they could continue running their normal Greyhound service. If they don't impress people with this it's not going to do any good. I really doubt it's going to be as poorly maintained as you guys are expecting. But even if it is, I'd rather spend $1 to smell armpits for 4 hours than $35 to smell armpits for 4 hours. This is publicity, and a way to steal the profits of companies who have been long stealing profits from them. That's it. It would ACTUALLY be a waste of money if it's worse than ChinaTown.

TT

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:04:09 -0500

but how good are the times when the welcome relief of the rancid smell on the bus comes in the form of cigarette smoke coming from the bathroom.

chuzzlewit

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:08:49 -0500

but...i don't want to go to dc and i don't want them to come here. this is terrible news.

kearnj

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:58:11 -0500

armpits.

kearnj

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:57:59 -0500

I'd rather just deal with the $22 cost, have included wifi, and not have sticky shit all over the bottoms of my shoes- all the while dealing with some crying babies and someone's rancid armits.

eyekantspel

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:31:32 -0500

we're getting there... it now reads "as low a $1"

eyekantspel

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:08:59 -0500

BoltBus ...has started to sell tickets for as law a $1 maybe as low as $1?

Kojak

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:04:03 -0500

Interesting Concept, but will they necessarily be cleaner? The cheaper the transportation, the dirtier the passengers = dirty bus.