[Mt-blind] Transportation

[dmgina]

How do we get this started?
I will be glad to write.

Every time they change routes the prices go up as well.
One hundred dollars just to go to grate falls.
Then if you have no place to stay and stay in a hotel, that is way too much.


--Dar
Every Saint has a future,
Every Sinner has a past


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Burke" <burkemt at onewest.net>
To: "'Montana Association for the Blind List'" <mt-blind at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Mt-blind] Transportation


>I think this is something that the MAB Board may need to address.  Since
> Greyhound's scale back two years ago, Rimrock Trailways has dropped all 
> the
> routes that made Montana reasonably crossable by bus in favor of the old
> Greyhound lines, with Butte as the central transfer point.    The direct
> route from Missoula to Great Falls on Highway 200 is gone, the route 
> between
> Billings and Missoula that passed through Helena is gone (and the terminal
> in Helena closed recently, too), and now the route between Billings and
> Great Falls.  Travel has definitely gotten worse for us.
>
> Interestingly, Greyhound dropped its traditional routes as
> unprofitable, other than running east-west as far as Billings.  And 
> Rimrock
> seemed to be doing okay with the old routes they had, so how can following
> the Greyhound lines be good for them?  They're certainly not good for us.
>
> Dan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mt-blind-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:mt-blind-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of James Aldrich
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 3:11 PM
> To: Montana Association for the Blind List
> Subject: [Mt-blind] Transportation
>
> Hi all,
>
> Maybe we should resurrect the Belt Valley Line once again to give us a
> direct route between Great Falls and Billings!  Does anyone remember the
> Belt Valley Line?  It may be a possible solution but then, I doubt one 
> would
> save much time getting to or from either city (grin smile)!  I believe 
> they
> used trucks or vans which had room for at least four passengers in them 
> with
> luggage, and anything else this carrier was hauling.  The driver would 
> stop
> at every town between Billings and Great Falls I'd swear!  It was a most
> interesting solution to providing transportation between the two cities.
> One wonders whether history might repeat itself!
>
> Jim Aldrich
>
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