Jet Blue is no Competiton for Lucky Star

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screw greyhound, bring back $10 fung wah.

Limoliner is perhaps the alternative for the air shuttle most competitive with Acela. Really, it's the cost, $70 each way on the limoliner with only one or two buses each day doesn't seem too reasonable. It's a sad spare change existance...

I'm surprised you didn't mention the Limoliner. Cheaper than the plane and train, and more comfortable than the Chinatown buses. I've taken it a few times since they began operations and have always had a good experience with them.

As a transplanted Brooklynite, I can answer that question: Yes, people in New York talk about how best to get to Boston, but not quite as much. Then again, the New York subway is complex enought that people there spend a lot of time just talking about how to get from one part of Brooklyn to another.

Has anyone ever taken the luxury bus that has all the comforts of a First Class plane flight? (Potholes replace turbulence). Can't think of the name right now... something-liner.

Of course all of this is moot if you can find a buddy heading to the City who's willing to let you split the gas and buy him Big Macs along the way.

I wonder if people in NYC ever have this discussion about getting to Boston?

i had heard that the city actually cracked down on the chinatown buses because they were illegally using tiny street corners in chinatown as large-scale bus depots.

prices are also more expensive because they have to pay for bays in south station.

i prefer chinatown buses. the last time i took greyhound to nyc, the driver wound up wandering through new jersey for an hour. it was like a horrible nightmare.

rumor has it that greyhound used some heavy-handed techniques making chinatown operators raise their prices and leave from south station. please do not support greyhound.

Chinatown Buses go from South Station, you are correct Josh. They deliver you into Chinatown in NYC, and not Port Authority.

Last I checked, the Chinatown buses (as they're collectively known) didn't go in and out of South Station, but to sundry locations in (surprise!) Chinatown. Is this no longer so?

Yeah, they were $10 each way last year, but then again, gas was only $1 per gallon, it's $2 per gallon now. I would chalk it up to fuel surcharge...and heavy use. I will sniff around more on this topic.

perhaps you could explore this topic more in depthas to why the fung wah and other chinatown operators were coerced into upping their prices. they used to be $20 round trip.