WESTERN EXPRESS SERVICE UPDATES Update: 8/20/2013
Many updates including the following:
AMERICAN LION which operates between Los Angeles and Las Vegas with intermediate stops at Colton, Monterey Park, and San Bernardino in California now has a website as follows: amlionbus.com contact number as follows 1-213-533-8700. They also ticket through the www.gotobus.com website.
FRONTERAS DEL NORTE which has two routes between Central Washington State/Portland, OR and San Ysidro, CA now has a website as follows: fronterasdelnorteinc.com contact no. as follows 1-559-528-3389. They no longer ticket through www.gotobus.com
They serve many communites in California, Oregon and Washington no one else does including the following:
Atwater, Anderson, Corning, Dorris, Dunnigan, Earlimart, Kingsburg, Livingston, Macdoel, Orland, Pixley, Parlier, Rose, Tipton, Williams, Willows, Woodland, and Yreka in California; Biggs, Cottage Grove, and Milton-Freewater in Oregon; George, Goldendale, Grandview, Mabton, Othello, Prosser, Royal City, Toppenish, and Wapato in Washington
FUTURA NET TRAVEL has discontinued AIBRA defined scheduled service and is no longer listed in the AIBRA website. They basically operated between the Los Angeles area and Las Vegas. Affected communities include Las Vegas, NV and Buena Park, East Los Angeles, Huntington Park, Lake Forest, Los Angeles, Orange, San Fernando, and Studio Park in California. All communities are in urbanized metropolitan areas comprehensively served by transit and other carriers.
TUFESA – Extended their Nogales – Tucson – Phoenix – Kingman – Las Vegas bus to Salt Lake City to maintain the scheduled service between St George, UT and Salt Lake City that was dropped by UTAH TRAILWAYS. The only change they made in the UTAH TRAILWAYS stops was adding Payson and dropping Nephi in Utah. Ephraim, UT has been added to the AIBRA isolated community map and list as a consequence. UTAH TRAILWAYS has discontinued all AIBRA defined scheduled service and is no longer listed in the AIBRA website.
They also have extended service from the San Bernardino area through Barstow, Fresno, Merced, and Gilroy to San Jose in California.
They serve a number of communities in Utah, Nevada and Arizona that are served by no one else including the following: Wickenburg, AZ; Mesquite, NV; Beaver, Fillmore, and Payson in Utah
Because of their service expansions into numerous rural communities, TUFESA will no longer be listed as a Category 5 Express Carrier, but instead as a Category 4 Scheduled Carrier in the AIBRA website. In addition to their previously listed website and contact number, they also ticket through the www.gotobus.com website.
US ASIA – An express carrier that now fundamentally operates between the Los Angeles Area, the Bay Area, and Sacramento Has discontinued service to Reno, NV; and Hacienda Heights and Richmond in California. The affected communities are all in well-served, urbanized areas.
With the exception of the maps, the AIBRA website information has been updated to reflect the above changes. The maps will be brought current following a companion update for service in Minnesota, Montana and North Dakota.