Greyhound Station on Boulevard here to stay?
River District News featured a story from the Richmond Free Presson the proposed move of the Greyhound station from Boulevard to Main Street. Their assessment: it’s a no-go.
Greyhound wants to stay close to it’s repair facility on Hermitage Rd., which does make sense.
Here’s any idea… why not move both to Main Street.
Back in those halcyon days of “multimodal transportation” planning in the early to mid-1990s, when there was Federal money available to complete the renovation of our now far underutilized Main Street Station, the idea was, indeed, to bring the bus station into Shockoe.
l for one can’t claim this news overjoys me. Still, the proximity of the station to its repair shops, not to mention the interstate exits, makes financial sense for the bus company. But with the cinemaplex opening up, and whatever may happen around the Diamond with future development, the bus terminal doesn’t add much to texture.
Then again, when I travel by that means, I use the Chinatown Bus that arrives and departs from alley next to the 7-11 at Broad and Boulevard, not one of our more scenic portions of town — but a corridor that has received some facelifting in recent years.
I’d like to see the I-95/64 “Gateway” onto Boulevard spruced up, bus station or no.
The Greyhound should be changed to outgoing trips only, or removed from the city all together. That thing brings in tons of transient east coast bums, who spend their free time aggressively begging change off of VCU students, and occasionally taking poops next to the 7-11 at Broad and Boulevard. We’ve got enough scumbags in the city, so maybe we should consider trying to get ourselves out of the path of our nation’s migratory homeless.