Greyhound Lines Inc. on Tuesday said it’s changing its bus stop in Madison again, its eighth move in two years. Starting Thursday, the four regular Greyhound arrival-departures will stop at Metro Transit’s North Transfer Point, 1213 Huxley St., on the North Side off Aberg Avenue. Since June 1, the “Madison” stop hasn’t even been in Madison, but at the Truckers Inn truck stop, 6162 Highway 51, at Interstate 39-90-94. Metro Transit spokesman Mick Rusch said Greyhound will stop in the street adjacent to the city bus shelter on Huxley, and Greyhound’s passengers are welcome to seek refuge there from inclement weather. The Greyhound Express service stop, which moved from Kelley’s Market on West Washington Avenue to Memorial Union last January, has not changed. This is the second time Greyhound has moved its Madison stop from a truck stop back to Madison. In April, its “Madison” stop at TravelCenters of America truck stop lasted two days before it, too returned to Huxley Street. In the fall of 2009, Greyhound moved its stop from the old Badger Bus depot at West Washington Avenue and Bedford Street, to a cubby in a strip mall at 2023 S. Stoughton Road, seven miles from Downtown. Then, in April 2010, it moved temporarily to the curb at East Washington Avenue and Baldwin Street on the city’s Near East Side. After four days there, buses began departing and arriving at the Huxley Street stop. It was two days before the bus company announced a “permanent location” in DeForest at the TravelCenters of America truck stop on Highway 51 at Interstate 39-90-94. That lasted one day, and buses were moved back to the Huxley Street stop. Then in June it went back to that Highway 51 intersection, only to a different truck stop. Greyhound spokesman Timothy Stokes, who has announced all of the Greyhound changes in the past 18 months, said he was not sure of the reason behind the latest move, though Madison bus travelers had complained of the long trek between the city to the Highway 51 address.
Stokes said the information may not be updated until Wednesday. Ticket information is also available at 800-231-2222, though the information was not updated yet Tuesday afternoon. Additional ticket information is available at www.greyhound.com.
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