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For New York City resident James Gilmer, 28, long-distance travel by bus usually means something very specific: getting to and from his hometown of Pittsburgh during the holidays.
It’s a routine — and route — familiar from childhood, when he and his sister would take Megabus to Manhattan to visit cousins for New Year’s. Otherwise, Gilmer, now an artist with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, hasn’t really been a regular bus rider, apart from local commutes and occasional road tours to nearby cities with the dance company.
“I don’t have anything against it,” he said, referring to motorcoach leisure travel. “But the specific situation of traveling from Pittsburgh to New York has a familiarity about it for me that doesn’t exist anywhere else, in terms of feeling comfortable aboard a bus.”
When it comes to consumer comfort levels, bus travel often gets a bum rap. In the popular imagination, buses are often the travel option of last resort.
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