Amtrak has established a new daily Thruway route linking Los Angeles with Las Vegas.
The bus route connects with Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner service and operates twice daily.
Intermediate stops are made at San Bernardino, Victorville, and Barstow, as well as two stops in Las Vegas.
Passengers are guaranteed a connection to Surfliner trains. However, Thruway passengers can buy bus tickets without a train segment if they so choose.
Amtrak Thruway bus services in California and Nevada have new stops in two cities.
In Emeryville, California, Thruway buses are no longer stopping in front of the Emeryville Station.
Instead, the buses have moved to the bus stalls located on the ground floor of the parking garage immediately next to the Emeryville station.
In a service advisory, Amtrak said disembarking passengers should turn left on the path just before the station to get to the bus stalls.
In Las Vegas, Thruway buses will stop at new locations. The downtown buses will board on South 1st Street across from the Bonneville Transit Center just north of Garces Avenue.
This stop is for Thruway Bus service to Bakersfield, Barstow, Mojave, Tehachapi, Filmore, Santa Paula, Oxnard, Ventura, Carpinteria and Santa Barbara.
The South Strip Transfer Center will board buses to Bakersfield and Kingman on Gilespie Street offering service to Bakersfield, Santa Barbara and intermediate stops. Shuttle connections are available here to Kingman, Arizona.
Effective March 29, the Amtrak thruway bus stops for Petaluma and Vallejo in California will change.
The Vallejo stop will move from the Curtola Park-n-Ride to the Vallejo Transit Center at 311 Sacramento Street,
The Petaluma stop will move from the library to the Copeland Transit Mall, sharing space with Golden Gate Transit. The location is 19 Copeland Street.
The Oregon Department of Transportation’s POINT Amtrak Thruway bus service has changed some of its schedules.
Bus 5504 is now operating 1 hour and 10 minutes earlier, departing Eugene station at 7 a.m.
Bus 5506 is now running 1 hour and 5 minutes earlier, departing Eugene at 1:10 p.m. while Bus 5518 will operate five minutes earlier, departing Eugene at 11:45 am.
Bus 5503 will operate 25 minutes earlier, departing Portland station at noon while Bus 5547will operate 30 minutes earlier, departing Portland at 5 p.m.
Other POINT bus schedules from Portland are unaffected by the changes.
Multi-ride tickets are available for use on both Amtrak Cascades and POINT services between Portland and Eugene.
Amtrak has begun start selling Interline Thruway Service in Oregon from Eugene to Florence and Eugene to Oakridge.
The buses are operated by Pacific Crest Lines.
Buses 8191, 8192, 8193, 8194, 8195 and 8196 will offer service between Eugene and Oakridge, with an intermediate stop at Westfir.
Buses 8612, 8613, 8614 and 8615 will offer service between Eugene and Florence, with intermediate stops at Veneta, Mapleton and Florence (Three Rivers Casino).
Amtrak Thruway bus service has resumed between Flagstaff and Williams, Arizona.
In a service advisory, Amtrak said the service, which is provided by Route 66 Express, is timed to connect with Amtrak’s Southwest Chief stops at Flagstaff.
Passengers will be able to self-transfer to allow through booking to the Grand Canyon Railway train excursion out to Grand Canyon National Park from Williams to Grand Canyon station.
Eastern North Carolina Thruway Service changed on Oct. 20 at certain cities with the changes in effect through Aug. 20, 2021.
In a service advisory, Amtrak said buses 6089 and 6090 are suspended while Buses 6189 and 6190 are canceled on Tuesdays.
Bus service is suspended at Goldsboro, Kinston, Havelock, Morehead City and Swansboro.
Bus service will continue at Wilmington, Jacksonville, New Bern, Greenville and Wilson.
In an unrelated development New Jersey Transit will substitute buses for trains on weekends between Philadelaphia (30th Street Station) and Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The bus substitutions will continue through Dec. 18 due to work on the Delair Bridge. The work will affect rail service between 4 a.m. on Saturdays and 6:30 p.m. on Sundays.
Passengers boarding at 30th Street station will board the bus on JFK Boulevard across from the station’s 30th Street entrance. The bus will depart at the scheduled train time.
Those traveling on a bus to 30th Street Station will disembark on the driveway on the 30th Street side of the station right outside the doors.
Several service changed became effective Oct. 1 on Thruway bus service serving Amtrak’s Cascades Service trains in Oregon.
The changes all effect SouthWest POINT connecting service, Amtrak said in a service advisory.
Bus 8644 will operate between Klamath Falls and Medford Front Street Station but no longer stop at Selma or Gold Hill.
At Medford, passengers may connect to Josephine County Transit to reach Cave Junction for free by showing an Amtrak ticket.
Bus 8714 will operate between Cave Junction Inn and Brookings on Monday through Friday. The bus will no longer stop at White City.
Bus 8611 will operate between Brookings and Cave Junction Inn with service ending at Selma and Gold Hill.
Passengers may connect to Josephine County Transit to reach Medford for free by showing an Amtrak ticket.
Bus 8711 will operate between Medford Front Street Station and Klamath Falls but no longer stop at White City.
The Grant Pass bus stop has moved to 500 N.W. 6th Street (Anne Basker Auditorium).
Amtrak Thruway bus service between San Francisco and Emeryville, California, has resumed although on a reduced schedule.
The buses connect in Emeryville with Amtrak’s San Joaquins, California Zephyr, Coast Starlight and some Capitol Corridor trains.
In a service advisory, Amtrak said the buses will only stop at the San Francisco Salesforce Plaza and Emeryville stations. Buses will not stop at the Oakland Jack London station.
Seating capacity is limited in order to maintain social distancing.
Amtrak has announced that effective Aug. 1 several changes will occur in the operation of three San Joaquin Thruway bus routes.
Route 12 will see certain service suspensions and changes.
Buses 3410 and 3415 are suspended and will no longer serve Victorville, Little Rock, Palmdale, Lancaster, Mojave and Tehachapi bus stops.
The Alvand Transportation Buses 5612 and 5619 will begin serving Tehachapi, Mojave, Barstow Train Station, Barstow Bus Stop, Las Vegas RTC Strip Terminal and Las Vegas Greyhound Bus Stop.
On Route 18, Buses 6703, 6704, 6710 and 6715 are suspended and will no longer serve Visalia and Goshen Junction bus stops
On Route 19, Buses 5410 and 5417 will no longer serve Hemet, Sun City/Menifee, Perris and Moreno Valley bus stops.
Buses 5402, 5412, 5415 and 5419 will no longer serve Indio, La Quinta, Palm Desert, Palm Springs, Palm Springs Airport and Cabazon bus stops.
Amtrak said alternate Pacific Surfliner train and bus service remains available to Coachella Valley stops and passengers are advised to check Amtrak.com for the latest availability.
