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Thruway Motorcoach




Thruway Motorcoach is Amtrak's system of Amtrak-owned intercity coaches, locally contracted transit buses, through ticketed local bus routes and Taxi services to connect Amtrak Train Station s to areas not served by its Railroad s. Train and Thruway Motorcoach tickets are purchased together from Amtrak for the length of a passenger's journey, and the connections are timed for convenient transfers between the two services. In addition to providing connecting service to unserved areas, some Thruway Motorcoaches operate as redundant service along well-established passenger rail corridors to add extra capacity.

By law, passengers may only travel on Amtrak's network of Thruway Motorcoaches when connecting to or from an Amtrak train, a restriction intended to prevent government-subsidized competition with Greyhound Bus Lines and other private bus companies.

California has the most extensive network of Thruway Motorcoaches in the nation.


THRUWAY MOTORCOACH ROUTES



Northeast

  • Newport News to Virginia Beach

  • New York to LaGuardia Airport/JFK Airport (through-ticketed New York Airport Service route)

  • Portland, ME to Bangor (through-ticketed Concord Trailways route)

  • Boston to Newburyport/Portsmouth (through-ticketed C&J Trailways route)

  • New London to Foxwoods Casino (through-ticketed SEAT route]

  • Boston to Manchester/Concord/Berlin (through-ticketed Concord Trailways route)

  • Wilmington to Dover/Salisbury (through-ticketed Carolina Trailways route)

  • Washington to Charlottesville (through-ticketed Greyhound route)

  • Buffalo to Jamestown (through-ticketed Concord Trailways route)

  • Westport to Lake Placid

  • East

  • Lakeland to Waldo

  • DeLand to Daytona Beach

  • Orlando/Tampa to St. Petersburg/Fort Meyers

  • High Point to Winston-Salem (through-ticketed Winston-Salem Connector route)

  • Charlottesville to Richmond

  • Chicago/Indianapolis to Louisville (through-ticketed Greyhound route)

  • Toledo to Detroit/East Lansing

  • Midwest

  • Jackson to Mobile (through-ticketed Greyhound route)

  • Carbondale to St. Louis

  • New Orleans to Baton Rouge

  • Battle Creek to Flint (through-ticketed Indian Trails route)

  • Kalamazoo to St. Ignace (through-ticketed Indian Trails route)

  • Indianapolis to Galesburg/Davenport (through-ticketed Burlington Trailways Route route)

  • Kansas City to Tulsa/Oklahoma City (through-ticketed Jefferson Lines route)

  • Milwaukee to Oshkosh/Wausau (through-ticketed Lamers Bus Lines route)

  • Chicago to Rockford/Madison (through-ticketed Coach USA route)

  • West

  • St.Paul-Minneapolis to Duluth (through-ticketed Jefferson Lines route)

  • Seattle to Vancouver, BC (through-ticketed Western Trailways Route route)

  • Denver to Fort Collins/Cheyenne/Casper (through-ticketed Powder River Transportation route

  • Salt Lake City to Boise (through-ticketed Greyhound route)

  • Salt Lake City to Las Vegas (through-ticketed Greyhound route)

  • Emeryville to San Francisco/Oakland

  • Galesburg to Springfield

  • Denver to Colorado Springs/Pueblo (through-ticketed Greyhound route)

  • Denver to Glenwood Springs (through-ticketed Greyhound route)

  • Williams Junction to Williams ( Grand Canyon Railroad connection )

  • Flagstaff to Grand Canyon (through-ticketed Open Road Tours route)

  • Flagstaff to Phoenix (through-ticketed Open Road Tours or Greyhound route)

  • Flagstaff to Sedona (through-ticketed Open Road Tours or Greyhound route)

  • Raton to Denver (through-ticketed Greyhound route)

  • Kingman to Las Vegas

  • Albuquerque to El Paso (through-ticketed Greyhound route)

  • Lamy to Santa Fe

  • Los Angeles to Las Vegas (through-ticketed Greyhound route)

  • Longview to Shreveport

  • Longview to Houston/Galveston

  • San Antonio to Laredo (through-ticketed Greyhound route)

  • San Antonio to Harlington/Brownsville (through-ticketed Greyhound route)

  • Temple to Kileen/Fort Hood

  • Oklahoma City to Tulsa (through-ticketed Jefferson Lines route)

  • Houston to Galveston (through-ticketed Kerrville Bus route)

  • Emeryville/Oakland to San Francisco

  • Salinas to Monterey/Carmel



Pacific Northwest

  • Seattle to Vancouver, BC

  • Seattle to Vancouver Island/Victoria, BC (through-ticketed Victoria Clipper ferry route)

  • Portland to Eugene-Springfield

  • Spokane to Boise (through-ticketed Northwestern Trailways route)

  • Seattle to Wenatchee/Spokane (through-ticketed Northwestern Trailways route)

  • Portland to Pendleton/Boise (through-ticketed Greyhound route)

  • Portland to Astoria

  • Seattle to Port Angeles (through-ticketed Olympic Bus Lines route)

  • Portland/Albany to Corvallis/Newport

  • Chemult to Bend/Redomd

  • Ontario to Eugene/Coors Bay (through-ticketed Porter Stage route)

  • Klamath Falls to Ashland



California

  • 1A: Bakersfield to Los Angeles/Santa Ana/San Diego

  • 1B: Bakersfield to Long Beach/San Pedro

  • 1C: Bakersfield to Simi Valley

  • 3: Sacramento/Stockton to Marrysville/Chico/Redding/Medford

  • 6: Stockton to Dublin/San Jose/Palo Alto

  • 7: Martinez to Vallejo/Napa/Santa Rosa/Eureka/McKinleyville

  • 9: Bakersfield to Las Vegas

  • 10: Bakersfield to Santa Barbara

  • 12: Bakersfield to Victorville

  • 15: Merced to Yosemite

  • 18A: Handford to Santa Maria

  • 18B: Handford to Visalia

  • 19: Bakersfield/San Bernardino to Hemet/Indio

  • 20: Sacramento to Roseville/Reno/Sparks

  • 20c: Sacramento to South Lake Tahoe

  • 21: San Jose to San Louis Obispo/Santa Barbara (Also known as the Coast Daylight or Night Coast)

  • 23: Sacramento to South Lake Tahoe (Carson City service stopped 2006-11-30)

  • 34: San Francisco to Stockton

  • 35: Santa Cruz to San Jose (connects with 6)

  • 37: Merced to Monterey

  • 99: Emeryville to San Francisco

  • Subsitiution for Amtrak trains

Thruway Motorcoaches are also substitued in place of an Amtrak California train on the following unnumbered segments:

  • Oakland - San Jose

  • Van Nuys to Los Angeles (one southbound trip)

  • Los Angeles to Santa Barbara

  • Replaced Thruway Motorcoach service

Thruway Motorcoach service has been replaced by through ticketed local transit on the following segments: