Daily News | Philly’s Greyhound bus ‘station’ is a humanitarian disaster and a municipal disgrace
even offered a detailed proposal for an intercity bus terminal on the north side of William H. Gray III/30th Street Station. But neither Mayor Michael Nutter nor Mayor Jim Kenney took interest in the issue, and those plans went straight onto a shelf.
Of course they rejected the proposal. The Streets Department charges $5,000 annually for every 20 feet of curb space Greyhound uses, a fraction of the rent it would pay in a terminal. Why would Greyhound agree to subsidize a municipal terminal when it can get the curb for a song? Perhaps the most astounding detail in this sorry saga is that SEPTA and Councilman Mark Squilla both say that the Streets Department failed to give them advance notice before relocating Greyhound to Seventh and Market.
Squilla, whose district includes East Market Street, told me he didn’t learn about Greyhound’s move until he started getting complaints from local merchants about large numbers of people splayed on the sidewalk. East Market Street was hit harder than many commercial streets during the pandemic, and he worries that the chaos at the Greyhound stop will further hamper efforts to attract and retain shops and offices.
Unlike Amtrak and the nation’s airports, bus carriers don’t receive federal subsidies, even though they serve a poorer population. Intercity buses also carry twice as many passengers as Amtrak and help fight climate change by keeping cars off the road.
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