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through airports, train stations, and seaports with their
final home, work, and tourism destinations.
Regular/Route/Scheduled Bus
Service
About one hundred privately owned companies in the
United States offer regular route bus service.
Greyhound Lines, Inc., the only nationwide bus carrier
for regular intercity route service, serves more than
3,100 destinations with 16,000 daily departures.
Greyhound has four subsidiaries in the United States
that are a part of the nationwide Greyhound network.
They include: Carolina Trailways, serving the
Southeast; Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma
Coaches (TNM & O), serving the Southwest; Valley
Transit Company, serving the Texas – Mexico border;
and Vermont Transit, serving New England.
In addition, Greyhound has interline partnerships with a
number of independent bus lines across the United
States. These bus companies provide complementary
service to Greyhound Lines ’ existing schedules and
link to many of the smaller towns in Greyhound Lines ’
national route system.
Amtrak passengers use Greyhound to make
connections to cities not served by rail on Amtrak
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