I Took 3 Greyhounds and an OurBus to Nashville

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Miles in Transit

4 жыл бұрын

With lots of time for shenanigans along the way. (filmed before the Longest Bus Ride video)
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@CharlesReiche Жыл бұрын

Regular people on a bus trip where multiple busses break down, "darn it darn it darn it!" Miles, "that was awesome!"

@j7gy8b 4 жыл бұрын

Your videos and unabashed enthusiasm fill me with joy

@j7gy8b 4 жыл бұрын

We have plenty of these "trackless trolleys" here in San Francisco, come see for yourself sometime....

@j7gy8b 4 жыл бұрын

The same equipment as the Music City Star is, I think, in use on our Caltrain commuter line but we are (thank God) phasing them out and they will soon be two generations old when we get our first Stadler electric trainsets for that corridor.

@leonardus6009 Жыл бұрын

Hello, Miles in Transit. It is great to find a fellow Public Transit Enthusiast. I was born and raised in Philadelphia and always loved using the public transportation to get around. Philly is quite unique because via public transit (commuter rail, bus, trolley, ferryboat, subway, PATCO, el, etc) you can travel to Wilmington, DE or Trenton, NJ. All the interstate bus companies keep the travel prices low: Flixbus, Megabus, Peter Pan, Chinabus, Greyhound, etc.....you are spoiled to live in Philly. Cheap airfare flying out of PHL, ILG, ACY, ABE, TTN, EWR, JFK, LGA. I always find it amazing how far you can travel with a modest budget when you're an avid budget traveller. Back in 2016, I travelled from Philly to Miami for $4.50 via bus transit to spend New Year's Eve in South Beach!

@CaeserOct 9 ай бұрын

Philly to Miami via bus for $4.50? How? Did you have a deeply discounted fare?

@leonardus6009 9 ай бұрын

I booked Megabus online and would buy up the $1 fares when planning my yearly trips. The December 28, 2016 trip required 4 legs on the journey. PHILA > DC for $1; DC > ATL for $1; ATL > ORLANDO for $1; ORL > MIAMI for $1 plus the .50 booking fee. Departed Philly 0330 on 28DEC2016 and arrived Miami Airport 29DEC2016 1300hrs. Total $4.50. Easy trip from Philiadelphia to Miami on Megabus. Buy your tickets as soon as the tickets go on sale during the summer months (June/July). The travel was uneventful. All buses were on time. All stops DC, ATL, and ORL had short layovers to change buses at stations. Well worth it!!

@CaeserOct 9 ай бұрын

@@leonardus6009 Whoa that's awesome. Sounds very cool and glad you had a good trip.

@hermanochoa03 Жыл бұрын

Hey Miles as someone from Nashville and transit euathist aswell I know out the city isn't as pedestrian friendly. We do try but we are always stopped for example the Lets Move Nashville 2019 campaign would add more frequent buses and light rail and commuter rail. But it's so difficult to do that here with private companies like CXS not letting Nashville use vital rails and fear-mongering in the public around transit. For example, the nearest bus stop to me used to be a 10 min walk until it got slashed and now the nearest is a 50 mins walk with no sidewalks forcing me to use a car lol ( I do try to support the transit as much as can by riding it). but videos like yours inspired me to be part of the solution as I hope for myself to help improve transit in my city and add more pedestrians. Anyways thanks for coming and being an awesome person!

@MilesinTransit Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Herman! I'm so glad you're pushing for positive transportation change in Nashville!

@thetrainguy1 2 жыл бұрын

You inspire me to do a cross country train journey. On the cheap.

@MilesinTransit 2 жыл бұрын

The USA Rail Pass is a bargain!

@edwardapier 10 ай бұрын

I appreciate the Baltimore coverage. Our wonderful metro to nowhere. We are fighting for and east west "red line" rail transit, that would radically change the city.

@mavadelo Жыл бұрын

"I don't have a smartphone" Me...huh...{checks upload date}....ah ok I really enjoy your videos Miles. I always wanted to visit the USA (correction, want.. not wanted) and travel around your country using Public Transport. But I am used to the Dutch transit system obviously which is... you decide at this moment you want to take a train across country (or even to other countries in Europe)... I head to the station and buy a ticket and hop on. Only certain long distance international trains have a few seats that need a reservation (and sleeper trains to Switserland for example (a trip of about 520 miles) I hope you one day get the chance to experience train and bus travel in my country or Germany (also an epic network) to see how it CAN be done :)

@tabtabjustin 11 ай бұрын

I love the Book Loft. There are so many weird spots in that place, with books just stocked in corners and tiny nooks.

@jg-7780 4 жыл бұрын

I happened to stop in Dayton for dinner with my dad’s friends on my way elsewhere, and I got a huge surprise when I saw that they had trolley buses! I wasn’t as deep into transit enthusiasm at the time, and had no idea they had them. Unfortunately, I think the part of the system I saw was not being used that day, and I didn’t see any trolleys go by. Also, that Air Force base has a fantastic, completely free, air and space museums, larger than the smithsonian. Also, can you do a video showing off your map collection? It looks really interesting!

@MilesinTransit 4 жыл бұрын

Are you suggesting a DORM TOUR? Am I about to become a vlogger here?? But maybe...we'll see :)

@ImNotLoganA Жыл бұрын

Yes I ❤ the Air Force Museum; used to take the 1-hour road trip from Cincinnati (but as a kid it felt much longer!)

@DT-su6xf 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, I found that hilarious.. A few hours to visit Dayton: 😑🤚XB-70 Valkyrie 🙂👉broken-down trolley-bus

@RicksTravelogue 3 ай бұрын

Watching this again, I really wish I was able to ride the Monongahela Incline when I was in Pittsburgh in mid-January. It was closed for repairs.

@OwlGreene Жыл бұрын

Wow! I do watch your channel and it's interesting you chose to take the bus to and through Baltimore! I grew up there & that bus that you took to go from White Marsh to Johns Hopkins goes directly through a neighborhood I lived in for several years! Brought back memories!

@Skip6235 11 ай бұрын

“It’s probably only the least used because of its anemic schedule” god I wish more people/governments/transit agencies understood this! They put one train/bus every hour or more in only one direction and then say “well, we can’t add any more service because no one is riding it!” Yeah, because it’s useless! Make it useful and people will ride it!

@pamelajaye Жыл бұрын

This parking lot drop off reminds me in a flashback of being dropped by a bus at the South shore plaza at midnight or maybe 11:00 p.m. after a concert down somewhere on the Cape. I think my uncle had to come and pick us up. The buses certainly weren't running. I had forgotten about that. It was like 1979...

@vlorpflash112 Жыл бұрын

LMFAO did they actually ask ur race thats insanity

@Tolya1979 Жыл бұрын

I really enjoy your videos! You should do a review of transit in the American Southeast.

@slakingfool Жыл бұрын

That Cincinnati station is practically a carbon copy of former stations in Albuquerque, Reno, and who knows where else in the Greyhound system. (16:30)

@MilesinTransit Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately it's gone now...they sold it and moved to the suburbs.

@garyyeung3909 4 жыл бұрын

Dayton station was recently changed, into that dump you saw. I went to dayton recently and they couldn't even keep the station open at night for the trailway bus. Unfortunately when I went the trackless trolley wasn't running at all. The Dayton RTA schedule is even worse after 8PM. Nashville MTA unfortunately recently cut service, not redesigned its routes. But that Music Star trip was awesome! I love how they didn't even bother closing the door

@mckriz6934 2 жыл бұрын

Great video!

@uniontpke772 8 ай бұрын

I don't like traveling places, but, man, you have really gotten me to want to go to Pittsburgh and Dayton at some point.

@MilesinTransit 8 ай бұрын

Pittsburgh especially is worth visiting! Most underrated city in the country.

@robertuden1258 6 ай бұрын

Plus they have penguins there , sorry dad joke haha

@bdub0983 7 ай бұрын

Lebanon is actually pretty nice for a smaller city. I lived there for like 3 years. I liked it

@aeotsuka 2 жыл бұрын

Great video and channel...coming from someone else who is tracking which transit systems I've completed in their entirety, am making progress towards, etc....

@MilesinTransit 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@paulhealy2557 11 ай бұрын

Drive thru alcohol shops are all over rural Ohio. Also liked the coach hire company called 'Chariots for hire'

@jg-7780 3 жыл бұрын

I suspect the reverse peak trips are run because the trains had to go back to Lebanon for operational reasons anyway, so might as well allow passengers on considering it doesn't really cost anything extra.

@tealmer3528 3 жыл бұрын

It does-it slows the trains down a lot because they have to stop at each station instead of running express, and it means that they can't run unless they have enough conductors.

@AA_8184_1 3 жыл бұрын

Another fun video! That Pittsburgh run through of all transit modes was wild. More hilarious moments...especially that call! I have to ask...do you only use a flip phone? No smart phone at all? Is that just a preference? I know for me a smart phone makes travel planning/booking (especially trip changes) so much easier. Just curious. Actually the flip phone adds even more fun to your already fun videos! :)

@MilesinTransit 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!! For the most part, I do just have that flip phone - at times when I'm interning for the MBTA I have a smartphone for work, but that's usually just a summer thing (although I've been interning part-time for them this whole semester)

@AA_8184_1 3 жыл бұрын

@@MilesinTransit Thanks. So cool that you intern for the MBTA. Perfect for you!

@MilesinTransit 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@pamelajaye Жыл бұрын

@@MilesinTransitHow is the T these days? It used to have trolley buses. I can't remember whether they were in Cambridge... I think that's where it was. But everything I remember is from the '80s. I don't follow my friend Ed so much anymore but he used to complain about the T everyday because it was so bad at least a couple of years ago. You never knew how long it would take to get from here to there. Especially depending on how many times you had to transfer between Braintree and Fenway I guess. When I had moved enough times that it took me three different vehicles to get to work in the morning I switched to the express bus from Newton corner to Copley Square and then it was only two buses. And one of them used to be a trolley so it was like every 5 minutes but I had to walk an extra block. I could have walked one block and taken the bus to the red line in Central Square and then switched to the green line to get to whichever stop I thought might be closest to John Hancock. But the express bus was pretty good. It still seemed to take at least an hour to get home. And that's back when it didn't break down all the time

@SweetBabyGray 4 жыл бұрын

Next time you're in Columbus go to Hot Chicken Takeover at North Market.

@lawaynesplace Жыл бұрын

Been to Nashville twice and only flown in, maybe will take greyhound up to Seattle then over to Nashville on Greyhound.

@johnlinn Жыл бұрын

One day you should make it to Vancouver. Transit is crappie but you can ride the Sea Bus. A boat that is part of the city transit system.

@cedricye1767 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Miles, on your blog I try to comment and it doesn't work for some reason, just wanted to let you know (I felt weird using the Contact so I put it here) Love your posts and vids, keep up the good work!

@MilesinTransit 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@DragonLabsScience 3 жыл бұрын

You should do a Q&A livestream

@davidrivera9743 2 жыл бұрын

White Marsh... Have done this connection actually like the Brown bus going downtown.

@philsam1232 Жыл бұрын

Totally did not just clock tube map of London there at 8:06 seeing that in Ohio is cool tbh.

@toy4x4nj 2 жыл бұрын

Music Starts around 11am along Broadway

@thefareplayer2254 4 жыл бұрын

More like SkoDON'T!

@piewhackit2me 9 ай бұрын

Damn our local public transportation bus charges to ride and only comes by every hour

@maggielapeer8381 Жыл бұрын

What time can I get on the bus today's

@saxmanb777 Жыл бұрын

Only 3 cities in the US have trackless trolleys. San Francisco, Seattle, and…..Dayton?? 😂

@MilesinTransit Жыл бұрын

Don't forget Philly and Boston!

@saxmanb777 Жыл бұрын

@@MilesinTransit oh der! I knew that too and been on both.

@jimparker7778 10 ай бұрын

Memo: the public solutions for transit that work in places like Philly, NYC and Baltimore are going to be very different from the systems that are practical for communities found outside of the NE corridor. Cities that made the big investments in infrastructure, and equipment to serve these communities learned the hard way that empty seats cost just as must as full carriages to deliver and maintain. Ridership in most sunbelt towns doesn't justify the kind of commitment needed to build public transit.

@MilesinTransit 10 ай бұрын

If you build a decent enough service it'll get good ridership! MARTA does decently well for itself, for example.

@jimparker7778 10 ай бұрын

@@MilesinTransit My comment is based on the experience in the Tampa/StPete area. The ridership cannot support the system.

@MilesinTransit 10 ай бұрын

@@jimparker7778 For what it's worth, the Tampa Streetcar seems to be one of the better-used ones.

@jimparker7778 10 ай бұрын

@@MilesinTransit It's a toy. It doesn't meet the needs of millions of citizens who want to leverage public systems. The TBART system is a loser. The public doesn't trust it and the politicians use it as their personal fiefdom.

@nicholasthompson7690 2 жыл бұрын

Next time you are in Pittsburgh go to Primanti's

@ReidMerrill Жыл бұрын

OurBus ☭

@soflaav8r Жыл бұрын

You pronounce Frontier in a unique way.

@MilesinTransit Жыл бұрын

It's something I've been trying to curb 😬

@omellyomelly7359 Жыл бұрын

Do you have to show ID when boarding on the bus, also what’s there immigration officers checking for ID.

@MilesinTransit Жыл бұрын

You don't have to show ID when boarding the bus for domestic trips, but you need a passport if you're crossing a border.

@omellyomelly7359 Жыл бұрын

@@MilesinTransit thank you, what if I’m crossing California border coming though Texas or Arizona ?

@MilesinTransit Жыл бұрын

@@omellyomelly7359 I've never taken Greyhound in Texas or Arizona but I imagine it'll be okay. I've taken it across the whole country several times and never had ID's checked.

@MilesinTransit Жыл бұрын

@@omellyomelly7359 This is out of my wheelhouse because I think it's technically possible anywhere, but I can't see it happening. I encourage you to ask other folks who are more familiar with riding Greyhound in that part of the country though!