On Monday, April 21, 2014 11:20:29 AM UTC-4, Clark F Morris wrote:

conklin wrote
> >Buses can drop you at the curb, near where you want to go, 
> >with no need for expensive investments in stations. 

> Gee just what I need as a store owner, hordes of people clogging the
> way to my business and all sorts of people wanting to use my toilet
> and buying nothing.  I have seen stores and businesses opposing
> transit stops near their doors and a Megabus stop would be an even
> bigger headache.  

yes, indeed.  This has been a problem with the newcomer cheapo bus companies
in multiple cities.  Merchants have reported the problem in the newspaper. 
Now, college newspapers warn students to "go" ahead of time since they won't
be able to at the bus 
stop, nor will have any shelter if the weather is inclement or the bus delayed.

Conklin's statement is also false.  Bus companies did indeed build their own
terminals in cities.  In smaller towns, they would contract with a local
merchant to sell tickets, provide toilet space, etc.  They didn't merely mooch
off of someone.  Someone 
wrote a nice book about Greyhound, including pictorials of their station
buildings, some of which remain in use as bus stations.

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