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Having a system like this in San Diego/Tijuana would be awesome. I know that the Blue Line station at San Ysidro is right at the border and you can walk across but imagine how cool it would be to take transit across the border. I think that they are studying an extension from San Ysidro to Downtown Tijuana. It would be so cool to take the trolley there but the logistics would be weird
i love how when you get asked by the border guard what you plan on doing in the us you can just respond "oh i'm going to go to target" and they'll be fine with it
Next time you're out in the PNW, you should do Seattle to Vancouver (BC) using only public transit (busses only if you really want to suffer). There's city busses that go to both sides of the I-5 border crossing so it should be possible, although much longer than greyhound/amtrak/flixbus
As a Windsor native now living abroad, I'm glad to hear the tunnel bus is running again. It was shut down during the pandemic, when the border was closed
Back in my college days in the '70s I drove a cab in Buffalo and I'd get the occasional fare into Canada, usually Fort Erie right across the bridge but one time it was halfway to London, Ontario. I also one time had a pick up at the Fort Erie racetrack, and going into Canada the customs guy was skeptical, why didn't he just take a local cab back? I had to call my dispatcher on the radio to confirm it. The guy was waiting at the track just like he said he would and we went back to Buffalo. The agents on both sides were usually understanding. I should add that all of my fares to Canada were falling down drunk!
I used to ride this bus very frequently (except for the COVID years) as a university student from 2018-2022. Don't use it as much now that I've purchased my own car but its still very convenient when I want to just spend time over only in Detroit for a couple hours. Basically, I remember the prices going from 5 CAD to 7.50 CAD when they resumed service in Fall of 2022, and then the price went up again in July 2023. In addition, the schedule also got downgraded, service used to run very late at night, and every 30 minutes a bus would depart the Transit Centre for the US. Now, the amount of buses servicing the route has been cut in half (buses leave hourly instead of 30-min basis) and the service ends at 9:40 PM (when the last bus leaves Mariner's Church in Detroit to return to Canada)
I've lived in Metro Detroit for 27 years, and always drive when I need to go to Windsor. I've always wondered what the Tunnel Bus is like and now I know. Thanks, Miles!!
Yup, a place in Canada is SOUTH of somewhere in the contiguous US...gotta love geography and its anomalies! This means that the "South Detroit" mentioned in Don't Stop Believin' is really just Windsor! Steve Perry has said, "I tried north Detroit, I tried east and west and it didn't sing, but South Detroit sounded so beautiful. I loved the way it sounded, only to find out later it's actually Canada." The lyric "streetlight people living just to find emotion" came from Perry watching people walking in the streets of Detroit at night after a concert in 1980! That aside, as weird as it is to see an ordinary city bus service cross the US-Canada border, this bus is very much a lifeline for the people of these two cities, so it's nice that it exists!
Being an older guy, well before 9/11, passports weren't required and they rarely even asked for any kind of i.d. I have a friend who grew up in Windsor and he said that as a kid he would take the bus to Tigers games with nothing more than a library card. Now living near the WA-BC border, like most regular crossers along the border I carry a NEXUS card, which sort of makes it like the old days. Crossing the river between Detroit and Windsor is always a bottleneck even with a NEXUS lane, but between Vancouver and Seattle it's all freeway so on a busy summer weekend the border can get clogged up. But with a NEXUS car you bypass literally hundres of cars and barely come to a stop at the actual border post.
You can also go from Chicago to Detroit on Amtrak # 350 transfer with Q-line,Tunnel bus,Crosstown 2 then continue on to Toronto on VIA rail # 79 in one day. And in opposite direction to the same day.
A transit-oriented indoor water park...you love to see it! The Detroit waterfront skyline does look wonderful! This reminds me of the fact that you can go all the way to San Ysidro on the US-Mexico border on the San Diego Trolley, which makes it possible to get to Tijuana by just light-rail and walking. This also reminds me of how El Paso once had an international trolley system! Historically, the cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez relied on a unified streetcar system across the Rio Grande which initially consisted of horse and mule-drawn trolleys and were replaced by the first electrified street cars in 1902. In the 1920s, the streetcar system was made up of 52 miles (or 83 km), with over two million using the service!
My hometown of Rimini is the closest Italian city to the Republic of San Marino and there is an international bus line connecting it to the capital of the small country. However, until a few years ago, even a normal urban bus line, n°7, crossed the border to serve an industrial park. Sadly it has now been cut back and stops a few meters from the border. Another urban bus line, n°16, also stops a few meters from the main border crossing. Both line allow you to connect to San Marino's own internal bus network (lines 4 and 7 respectively) just by walking a few hundred meters across the border. It would cost less to go from Rimini to San Marino that way compared to the direct international line, however San Marino's bus lines are rather infrequent: outside the main historic centre the country is an undefined sprawl of warehouses and low density residential areas which makes it extremely car-centric.
As a European ... it's odd to see that bus or train services crossing borders is so rare or special in other places ...
The ending 😂😂😂😂
Having a system like this in San Diego/Tijuana would be awesome. I know that the Blue Line station at San Ysidro is right at the border and you can walk across but imagine how cool it would be to take transit across the border. I think that they are studying an extension from San Ysidro to Downtown Tijuana. It would be so cool to take the trolley there but the logistics would be weird
i love how when you get asked by the border guard what you plan on doing in the us you can just respond "oh i'm going to go to target" and they'll be fine with it
Next time you're out in the PNW, you should do Seattle to Vancouver (BC) using only public transit (busses only if you really want to suffer). There's city busses that go to both sides of the I-5 border crossing so it should be possible, although much longer than greyhound/amtrak/flixbus
As a Windsor native now living abroad, I'm glad to hear the tunnel bus is running again. It was shut down during the pandemic, when the border was closed
Back in my college days in the '70s I drove a cab in Buffalo and I'd get the occasional fare into Canada, usually Fort Erie right across the bridge but one time it was halfway to London, Ontario. I also one time had a pick up at the Fort Erie racetrack, and going into Canada the customs guy was skeptical, why didn't he just take a local cab back? I had to call my dispatcher on the radio to confirm it. The guy was waiting at the track just like he said he would and we went back to Buffalo. The agents on both sides were usually understanding. I should add that all of my fares to Canada were falling down drunk!
I used to ride this bus very frequently (except for the COVID years) as a university student from 2018-2022. Don't use it as much now that I've purchased my own car but its still very convenient when I want to just spend time over only in Detroit for a couple hours. Basically, I remember the prices going from 5 CAD to 7.50 CAD when they resumed service in Fall of 2022, and then the price went up again in July 2023. In addition, the schedule also got downgraded, service used to run very late at night, and every 30 minutes a bus would depart the Transit Centre for the US. Now, the amount of buses servicing the route has been cut in half (buses leave hourly instead of 30-min basis) and the service ends at 9:40 PM (when the last bus leaves Mariner's Church in Detroit to return to Canada)
I've lived in Metro Detroit for 27 years, and always drive when I need to go to Windsor. I've always wondered what the Tunnel Bus is like and now I know. Thanks, Miles!!
As a native Detroiter, it’s nice to see a transit TH-camr say some nice things about the city.
Yup, a place in Canada is SOUTH of somewhere in the contiguous US...gotta love geography and its anomalies! This means that the "South Detroit" mentioned in Don't Stop Believin' is really just Windsor! Steve Perry has said, "I tried north Detroit, I tried east and west and it didn't sing, but South Detroit sounded so beautiful. I loved the way it sounded, only to find out later it's actually Canada." The lyric "streetlight people living just to find emotion" came from Perry watching people walking in the streets of Detroit at night after a concert in 1980! That aside, as weird as it is to see an ordinary city bus service cross the US-Canada border, this bus is very much a lifeline for the people of these two cities, so it's nice that it exists!
As someone born and raised in Windsor, I’ve never heard someone sound so excited to be there lol.
Being an older guy, well before 9/11, passports weren't required and they rarely even asked for any kind of i.d. I have a friend who grew up in Windsor and he said that as a kid he would take the bus to Tigers games with nothing more than a library card. Now living near the WA-BC border, like most regular crossers along the border I carry a NEXUS card, which sort of makes it like the old days. Crossing the river between Detroit and Windsor is always a bottleneck even with a NEXUS lane, but between Vancouver and Seattle it's all freeway so on a busy summer weekend the border can get clogged up. But with a NEXUS car you bypass literally hundres of cars and barely come to a stop at the actual border post.
You can also go from Chicago to Detroit on Amtrak # 350 transfer with Q-line,Tunnel bus,Crosstown 2 then continue on to Toronto on VIA rail # 79 in one day. And in opposite direction to the same day.
A transit-oriented indoor water park...you love to see it! The Detroit waterfront skyline does look wonderful! This reminds me of the fact that you can go all the way to San Ysidro on the US-Mexico border on the San Diego Trolley, which makes it possible to get to Tijuana by just light-rail and walking. This also reminds me of how El Paso once had an international trolley system! Historically, the cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez relied on a unified streetcar system across the Rio Grande which initially consisted of horse and mule-drawn trolleys and were replaced by the first electrified street cars in 1902. In the 1920s, the streetcar system was made up of 52 miles (or 83 km), with over two million using the service!
Back in the days when streetcars were everywhere, there was an international tramway between St. Stephen, NB and Calais, Maine.
Wow that was some pretty good Canadian behaviour at the end thanking the bus driver at the end of your trip.
It's funny how this bus appears to be just your average commute bus.
Quite a few people live in Windsor and work in Detroit. When I worked in Detroit, I had many colleagues that commuted on this bus daily.
My hometown of Rimini is the closest Italian city to the Republic of San Marino and there is an international bus line connecting it to the capital of the small country. However, until a few years ago, even a normal urban bus line, n°7, crossed the border to serve an industrial park. Sadly it has now been cut back and stops a few meters from the border. Another urban bus line, n°16, also stops a few meters from the main border crossing. Both line allow you to connect to San Marino's own internal bus network (lines 4 and 7 respectively) just by walking a few hundred meters across the border. It would cost less to go from Rimini to San Marino that way compared to the direct international line, however San Marino's bus lines are rather infrequent: outside the main historic centre the country is an undefined sprawl of warehouses and low density residential areas which makes it extremely car-centric.