If you are traveling between Dallas and Austin anytime soon, you might want to give Vonlane a try. This is a new first-class bus that has just 16 cushy seats, each wider than a first-class seat on a plane, plus a private conference room for six. Naturally, the bus has free WiFi, but also has on-board snacks, newspapers, television, radio, and noise-cancelling headphones to listen to them.
Vonlane spent $700,000 on each of two luxury motorcoaches and provides four three-hour trips a day from Dallas’ Love Field to Austin’s Hyatt Regency, a short walk from downtown Austin. The fare for a late-night trip is $40, while the daytime trips are $100. Vonlane claims this is half the airline fare; while it is true that Southwest’s fare for a trip tomorrow is $201, if you book far enough in advance you can get a $77 nonrefundable fare.
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By comparison, Megabus offers six trips a day between Dallas and Austin. A nighttime trip takes 2:55, while the daytime trips take between 3:15 and 3:50. Fares are no higher than $29.50 including a $1.50 reservation fee. Megabus uses “yield management,” meaning that if you book far enough in advance, fares can be as low as $2.50.
Then there’s Greyhound, which offers 13 trips a day ranging between 3:05 and 3:45 (with one trip that’s 4:40 because it stops in Ft. Worth and Waco) at fares from $10 to $41. No free WiFi, but competitive with Megabus on price.
Megabuses have cushy seats and free WiFi, but the seats aren’t leather, there isn’t much legroom, and the WiFi is sometimes intermittent. Vonage has more comfortable seats with more legroom and presumably keeps its WiFi equipment in good shape. Personally, I am more price sensitive, but I wish Vonage well. With a range of bus services like these, who needs high-epeed rail?
Family members took the Megabus Austin-Dallas route in 2011 and loved it… except for the part where they rode on the top deck (front seats) on the tall overpasses, other than the bad case of “the willey’s” they were fine.
With a range of bus services like these, who needs high-speed rail?
Well, Stacey & Witbeck does, so they can bask in unabashed state welfarism. And Michael Setty does, so he can not use it from his Napa Valley ranch.
Considering the time wasted at an airport, the need to arrive way early to ensure enough time for luggage and security, and the free colonoscopy in security, the time to travel is about the same.
One big difference is that airplanes make you shut down electronics for 20 minutes of take off and landing.
The bus probably has some problems of motion sickness, but otherwise would be much more comfortable.
So Metrosucky, when are you going to start stalking Stacey & Witbeck, since you seem so obsessed by them?
Msetty, I am not surprised you delivered yet another inane comment that matches what I expect from your so-called “personality”. You come here to spew out your invective and directly attack various individuals on this blog, including the blog owner, so by definition, I cannot be “stalking” you.
And calling keeping track of Stacey & Witbeck’s corporate welfare projects “stalking” is like calling running a blog on government mismanagement “stalking” that evil institution.
I understand that like Commodus in Gladiator, you are “terribly vexed” that even a handful of blogs exist criticizing rail and density misadventures and boondoggles, but I suggest you either learn to live with it, or as Frank would say, STFU and go cry in your cornflakes.
It is great to see people being provided with a large number if choices. Choices – not government mandates.
The $100 bus ride is paid for by people who want that ride. If you like Megabus, take that.
This will work as long as entitlement politicos don’t start requiring that Vonlane set aside a number of “affordable” seats – like they do with real estate developments.
I see, Metrosucky, like all trolls you can dish it out but can’t take it.
For the record, there are much larger companies than Stacey & Witbeck who work on rail projects. Like Parsons Brinkerhoff, Bechtel, etc. So why stalk S & W, expect perhaps you’re lazy, since they are headquartered in Portland? They’re listed as 139th in the top 400 contractors, and microscopic compared to the largest, as listed by Engineering News Record: http://enr.construction.com/toplists/Top-Contractors/001-100.asp.
Msetty,
I took my time replying to you because it’s not worth my time. Again, one cannot “stalk” an impersonal object such as a company. I understand this distinction may be above your head, or in the way of your brand of sophistry, but that is neither here nor there.
I talk about Stacey & Witbeck because they have their claws in many West Coast rail boondoggles. I believe Bechtel has only worked on one Portland loot rail project. Stacey & Witbeck is also the contractor on the PMLR boondoggle, of course, and the streetcar extension boondoggle in Seattle’s International District.
Following the corrupt activities of Stacey & Witbeck and their government enablers is no more stalking than reporting on the corrupt dealings of US war contractors in the Middle East. There isn’t an exception to this just because rail & TOD boondoggles are your personal pet favorites.
And Stacey & Witbeck has an office in Portland (since it happens to be rail boondoggle central); they are NOT headquartered there. They are headquartered in San Francisco.
As Frank has pointed out many times, you are the intellectually lazy, and dishonest, one here on this blog.