Last month, with funding from the Nevada Department of Transportation, Greyhound added a route between Reno and Salt Lake City along the I-80 corridor. Greyhound had provided service on this corridor before 2018 but discontinued it due to low ridership. At that time, Greyhound had a through-ticket arrangement with Amtrak, which offers competing service on the California Zephyr route. However, this route does not stop at all the same towns because of its different alignment from the highway. In 2022, Salt Lake Express provided service on the same corridor with a state subsidy but had disputes with Nevada’s authority overseeing motorcoach carriers.
The new connection allows bus-only trips from the Bay Area to Midwest locations like Chicago without passing through Los Angeles. The new trips are overnight both ways, departing Reno and Salt Lake City during the 8pm hour and arriving during the 7am hour in Salt Lake City and 5am hour in Reno. The eastbound California Zephyr is currently scheduled to arrive in Salt Lake City around 3am.
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Meanwhile, Greyhound added a roundtrip from Sacramento to Seattle, complementing an existing roundtrip through Flixbus. For some time, Greyhound’s owner, Flix Mobility, realigned services and replaced blue Greyhound buses in the Pacific Northwest with green Flixbus, except for trips between Seattle and Vancouver BC and contracted Travel Washington routes, which continue to operate with blue Greyhound buses.