gmf@uvacs.UUCP (08/11/84)
> ... the big [bus] companies ... started cutting prices on the major > routes a bit [in Texas] ..... Some of you may respond by saying ... > My ticket from Dallas to Houston is even cheaper ... > Prentiss Riddle I recently traveled to and from Guadalajara, Mexico, by bus, via Dallas, and I can testify that the Dallas bus station is one of the ickiest in the U.S. In fact, Texas Greyhound stations in general are inferior to those in the Southeast (on the whole), although Greyhound bus stations all over the U.S. (with a few exceptions) have declined in convenience, cleanliness, comfort, etc., since the 1960's. This is partly due to the use made of them by vagabonds, drunks, etc., but it is also partly due, I suppose, to Greyhound cutting expenses so it can compete better. After all, intercity buses in places like Texas are ridden, on the whole, by the poorer classes, who ought to know how to put up with miserable bus stations. After all, if they want better, why don't they get richer? (I suppose I better explain that this is irony -- I really think the poor are entitled to nice bus stations. I should also explain that I am not myself poor (by the customary standards -- poverty, after all, is a relative matter). My wife and I went by bus for other reasons.) Gordon Fisher