{"id":1469,"date":"2013-04-15T09:16:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T13:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2013-04-15T09:16:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T13:16:33","slug":"martz-trailways-adds-curbside-express-bus-service-to-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/martz-trailways-adds-curbside-express-bus-service-to-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Martz Trailways adds Curbside Express Bus Service to New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/d\/127329-2\/DSC_2550b.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In April 2013 Martz Trailways began <a title=\"Martz Trailways Curbside Express Bus Service to NYC\" href=\"https:\/\/express.martztrailways.com\/\">Curbside Express Bus Service<\/a> to New York City. The fare for this bus service is $25 round-trip, which is a significant discount off of the normal round-trip price. Martz offers this service from both Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, though, at least for now, the buses only run on certain days of the week. The\u00a0separate\u00a0buses from\u00a0Scranton and Wilkes-Barre each make\u00a0several\u00a0stops within their respective departure cities,\u00a0beginning\u00a0at 7:00 AM.<\/p>\n<p>The benefits of this new service are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">$25 round-trip fare (very cheap!)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Express to NYC &#8211; no stops after Scranton or Wilkes-Barre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This new bus service is similar to the &#8220;Chinatown&#8221; bus service model that is\u00a0prevalent\u00a0in Manhattan. Buses pick-up and drop-off at the curb, instead of at a formal bus terminal, thereby saving money from the fees normally paid to the owner of the bus terminal. Normal midtown-New York bound Martz buses call at the Port Authority Bus Terminal at 40th Street and Eighth Avenue. But the new Martz\u00a0Curbside Express Buses will both drop-off and pick-up in the vicinity of 48th Street and 6th Avenue. That location is\u00a0convenient\u00a0to Grand Central Terminal, Penn Station, and many subway lines.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: You MUST return on the same day, on the exact bus specified, to use the second half of your $25 round-trip ticket. The current schedule has the same-day return buses departing\u00a048th Street and 6th Avenue at 7:00 PM.<\/p>\n<p>For all the details on the new\u00a0Martz Trailways Curbside Express Bus Service to New York City and to purchase e-tickets, please click on the following link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/express.martztrailways.com\/\">https:\/\/express.martztrailways.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was hoping that that one of the discount bus services, such as Megabus or Bolt Bus, would begin service to Scranton. That hasn&#8217;t happened yet, but this new Martz Trailways Curbside Express Bus Service is pretty much the next best thing and I\u00a0applaud\u00a0Martz Trailways for offering it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In April 2013 Martz Trailways began Curbside Express Bus Service to New York City. The fare for this bus service is $25 round-trip, which is a significant discount off of the normal round-trip price. Martz offers this service from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/martz-trailways-adds-curbside-express-bus-service-to-new-york-city\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[390,385,387,67,50,93,386,388],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bus","tag-bus","tag-martz","tag-martz-trailways","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-scranton","tag-trailways","tag-wilkes-barre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}