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Mar 8, 2007 1:07 pm US/Eastern
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Low-Cost Bus Line Rolls Into Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ―
A new bus line rolling into town could give Greyhound a run for its money.
Today, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for megabus.com, a subsidiary of Coach USA, which plans to offer fares as low as a $1.
"The dollar pricing isn't for every seat, but it's for the first limited seats that we have open on each trip," Megabus.com CEO Dale Moser explained. "So the sooner you book, the better chance you have to get the $1 pricing."
Even if customers don't snag a $1 seat, pricing increases incrementally by several dollars, until it reaches the top fare.
The bus line has been operating since 2006 in seven cities. Megabus.com will serve Pittsburgh and five other cities starting April 2. Since it started, more than 250,000 passengers have used the service.
While the company doesn't have bus terminals, it will have a bus stop in Pittsburgh at the northeast corner of 10th Street and Penn Avenue, across the street from the Westin Convention Center Hotel.
Riders must buy their tickets online. Company officials say it keeps the costs down.
Megabus.com says it wants to offer a low-cost transportation alternative.
"If we can get 56 people take our bus to go to Cleveland or Toledo or Chicago out of Pittsburgh and they're not driving their car, it's 56 cars that have been taken off the road," Moser said. "That's less fuel consumption, it helps the economy as well as the ecology of our nations."
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