Live Blogging the Megabus

As has been widely reported, the Antiplanner is taking the Megabus to New York City today. I’ve been on the Megabus before from New York to Washington, but this is my first trip in the other direction.

Taking Megabus at a cost of $8 cost the Antiplanner an extra hour of sleep but saved Fox News $131 over the cost of Amtrak’s Acela. I don’t really care about saving Fox News money–they would have gladly paid my airfare from Oregon and a hotel so I could appear on John Stossel‘s show to talk about high-speed rail and driverless cars. But it was the principle of the thing: I couldn’t very well pan high-speed rail after riding it, could I?

So I got up at 5 am and walked six blocks to the Megabus “station” (a parking lot in downtown DC), arriving at 5:30 am. I should have stayed in bed another half hour as the bus didn’t show until 6 am for a 6:15 departure, leaving me and one or two other early arriving passengers to shiver in the 32-degree weather.
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Since I was the first to arrive, when the bus did show I got a front-row seat on the upper level. The wireless was already up-and-running — on my last trip, the wireless didn’t get going until we were on the road — and was faster than the wireless in my hotel though slower than the wireless in my home office. It was certainly fast enough for me to check in for my 6 am flight home tomorrow morning.

Soon the bus was on what I presume was the George Washington Parkway, and we are now approaching Baltimore. While the last bus I was on was about two-thirds full (which is supposed to be the average for buses in this corridor), this one is nearly empty — I count seven people on the upper level, which must have about 50 of the bus’s 70-some seats.

I’ll post more if I have any addition comments.