DOWNTOWN — The future of Chicago’s Greyhound station and where riders will go when it closes is still unclear — less than a week before the company’s lease at the facility expires.
As transit advocates scramble for solutions, one alderman suggested moving bus operations about a block south to the new arrivals landing zone at Des Plaines Avenue and Polk Street.
For months, transit advocates, reproductive health care providers and numerous local officials have urged the city of Chicago and Greyhound parent company Flix North America to finalize a plan so bus service is not interrupted when the bus line’s lease at its West Loop terminal ends.
The Greyhound bus terminal, 630 W. Harrison St., has been in service since the late 1980s and serves about 500,000 people a year. The intercity buses operating out of the terminal provide an essential travel option for older adults, low-income riders, those with disabilities and people who can’t or don’t drive, experts say.
But over the past few years, the popular terminal’s future has been shrouded in uncertainty.