While air travel is by far the most common way to get around, 16 million Americans ride Greyhound buses every year all across the country. But the Greyhound station in Dallas, Texas, like several others, will be closing its doors for good in October.
Jeremy Poston says he usually drives from Indianapolis to Waco to visit family, but since a car wreck totaled his vehicle the bus was his next best option.
“Coming from Indianapolis, Indiana, it goes pretty much anywhere you need it to go,” Poston said.
Sara Cullen and Malachi Gordon packed up their life in Phoenix to get closer to family in Houston, Texas.
“And it was kind of just convenient, like financially. So it was just kind of quick and easy,” Cullen said.
The bus station on South Lamar Street in downtown Dallas has been operating for more than 40 years, but the company that owns Greyhound does not own the terminal.
The city estimates that the land the station sits on is worth $2.8 million — pushing the new owners to let the lease expire so they can build something else.