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Perhaps the dominant carrier of intercity bus lines serving New York State, Greyhound has a long and proud history of serving the Empire State with both local and express bus service to all principal points in the Empire State. Today, the company operates mostly limited stop express bus service, having spun  many of its local service routes off to other carriers, and discontinuing some altogether. Among the companies that went into Greyhound Lines in NY State were Great Lakes Stages, Colonial Coach Lines, Great Eastern Stages, and other smaller companies that Greyhound felt would be a perfect fit into its growing network of intercity bus routes not only in New York State, but nationwide as well. This is a look at Greyhound in New York State, where it has been, and where it is going.

The present route structure of Greyhound Lines serving New York State consists of the following:
1.Cleveland-Boston via Buffalo-Rochester-Syracuse-Utica-Albany
2.Rochester-Geneva-Ithaca-Binghamton
3.Syracuse-Cortland-Binghamton-Scranton (pool with Capitol Trailways of Penna.)
4.Syracuse-Watertown-Massena
5.Albany-New York via Thruway
6.New York-Albany-Montreal
 
Greyhound is now primarily a limited stops express service operation, rather than all stops locals on other routes as in the past. Such regional carriers as Adirondack Trailways, New York Trailways, Pine Hill Trailways, Empire Transit Lines, and Hudson Transit Lines, to name a few, all operate routes that were once operated by Greyhound Lines at one time. A few routes Greyhound once operated have since been discontinued altogether. In western New York,D&F Transit and Blue Bird Coach Lines, to name two of WNY's major regionals, built their route networks off of former Greyhound routes. Of the Blue Bird routes, only the Buffalo-East Aurora - Olean route is still in operation and by Coach USA, successor to Blue Bird Coach Lines. Buffalo-Dunkirk-Jamestown is now part of Empire Transit Lines, which also operates Jamestown to Olean.
 
FLEET ROSTER (Latest Available)
 
The following is the fleet of buses currently in operation on Greyhound Lines throughout their system. All are MCI coaches.
 
102D3LE          1997          45 seats               0034-0038            2 buses
102D3LE          1999          55 seats              0044-0048             5 buses
102D3LE          2000          55 seats              0049-0053             5 buses
102D3LE          2000          55 seats              0500-0501             2 buses
4500LE            2003          55 seats              0502-0503             2 buses
102D3              1996          47 seats              1001-1009            9 buses
102D3              1997          47 seats              1010-1049           40 buses
102D3LE          1998          47 seats              1050-1059           10 buses
102D3LE          1998          39 seats              1060-1063             4 buses
102D3              1998          47 seats              1064-1068             5 buses
102D3              1998          47 seats              1069-1094           26 buses
102A3              1986          47 seats              1525-1798          274 buses
MC12               1992          47 seats              1804-1954          150 buses
MC12               1993          47 seats              1958-2323          367 buses
MC12               1994          47 seats              2324-2605          281 buses
MC12               1995          47 seats              2621-2757          137 buses
MC12               1996          47 seats              2758-2918          160 buses
MC12               1997          47 seats              2919-2969            50 buses
MC12               1998          47 seats              2973-3176          204 buses
G4100              1998          47 seats              3200-3211           12 buses
C2045LE           ?              57 seats              3250-3251              2 buses
102DL3             1998         55 seats              6000-6069           70 buses
102DL3             1999         55 seats              6070-6357          285 buses
102DL3             2000         55 seats              6358-6499          142 buses
102DL3LE         1999         50 seats              6500-6503             4 buses
102DL3LE         2000         55 seats              6504-6519            15 buses
102DL3LE         2000         55 seats              6520-6560           41 buses
102DL3LE         2001         55 seats              6561-6614    54                
D4500LE        2001      50 seats           6615-6619    5 buses
102DL3LE      2000     55 seats         6900-6954   54 buses
G4500LE       2001     55 seats         7000-7120 121 buses
G4500LE       2002     55 seats        7121-7153   34 buses
G4500LE       2003     55 seats        7154-7205  52 buses
G4500MP      2003     55 seats        7206-7210   5 buses
G4500LE       2003     55 seats       7211-7269  68 buses
 
The 102A3s, being the oldest buses in the Greyhound fleet are being phased out of the fleet and taken out of service as major work comes do and being put up for sale. The 55 seat bus is fast becoming the fleet standard of Greyhound's fleet as the older 47 seaters are removed from service and replaced with the new, larger capacity models.          
As to Where Greyhound Lines in New York State has been, a look at its past may not be a bad place to start, beginning with Colonial Greyhound Lines and its route make up in 1929, which consisted of the following: 1.Buffalo-Rochester-Geneva-Syracuse-Utica-Albany-Pittsfield-Sprin gfield-Boston. 2.Albany-Kingston-Newburgh-New York 3.Syracuse-Richfield Springs-Albany via Cherry Valley Turnpike. 4.Binghamton-Albany 5.Syracuse-Nortwich 6.Syracuse-Watertown-Alexandria Bay 7.Watertown-Utica 8.Watertown-Malone-Plattsburgh 9.Watertown-Ogdensburg 10.Watertown-Carthage 11.Watertown-Cape Vincent 12.Watertown-Sacketts Harbor 13.Geneva-Auburn 14.Cobleskill-Schenectady 15.Rochester-Lima 16.New York-Kingston 17.New York-Fleischmanns-Margaretsville 18.New York Oneonta GREAT LAKES STAGES ROUTES (Acquired by Greyhound in the 1930s): 1.Cleveland-Erie-Buffalo 2.Erie-Jamestown-Olean 3.Scranton-Philadelphia 4.Buffalo-Erie-Pittsburgh 5.Wilkes Barre-Scranton-New York

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