NYC bus travel back in Carlisle
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Article RatingStarting next Friday, Big Apple enthusiasts will once again be able to take a bus from Carlisle to New York City.
Capitol Trailways will offer weekend bus trips to New York from a makeshift bus stop on the corner of Louther and Cherry streets in Carlisle, at Dickinson’s Public Safety Office. The announcement marks the end of a three-year bus-route hiatus between the two cities.
Trailways resumed service, originally canceled because of poor ridership, because people are seeking less expensive ways to travel, said Skip Becker, senior vice president of Capitol Trailways.
Becker estimated a one-way ticket to New York would cost $34.50, $60 round-trip. They can be bought online or at the Public Safety Office.
Although Trailways will offer only weekend service to start, it will use the results of an ongoing survey to determine whether it should add other bus routes. If the survey, which is online at www.carlislepa.org, indicates enough interest from the community, the company might add an “express” route that would run from Carlisle, to Harrisburg, to the Lehigh Valley and finally to New York.
Mayor Kirk Wilson encouraged all Carlisle residents to take the survey to show Trailways how interested the town is in increasing service.
Dickinson College is conducting the survey. The college is helping to facilitate the bus service because many of its students are from New York, school officials said.
