Eastern Shuttle (bus company)
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Eastern Shuttle #51104, bound for Philadelphia, boards customers in New York City's Chinatown.
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| Founded | 2003 |
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| Headquarters | 90 Bowery New York, NY 10013 |
| Locale | Northeastern United States |
| Service area | I-95 corridor |
| Service type | Intercity coach service |
| Routes | 2 |
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| Operator | New Oriental Tour |
| Website | Eastern Shuttle |
Eastern Shuttle is a provider of intercity bus service in the I-95 corridor between New York City and Richmond, Virginia, and is one of a number of companies that compete in the Chinatown bus market out of Manhattan's Chinatown.
What is Eastern Shuttle today originally was two different Chinatown bus companies that both began operations around 2003, Eastern Travel (Eastern) and Dragon Coach, later Today's Bus (Today's). Eastern provided service initially to Philadelphia and later to Boston. Following complaints from Greyhound and Peter Pan, and a requirement for all intercity services to move into the South Station terminal, Eastern left the Boston and competed in the New York City-Washington, D.C. market, with most trips servicing the Baltimore Travel Plaza. Today's provided service between New York City and Philadelphia or Washington, D.C.
In fall 2008, shortly after Eastern began offering Wi-Fi on its coaches and started servicing Penn Station, Coach USA purchased Eastern using the operating authority of a then-inactive company whose operations were sold to Peter Pan in the early 2000s., giving Coach USA its first foothold in the Chinatown bus market. In winter 2009, Coach USA purchased Today's, giving Coach USA a foothold in the Chinatown bus market to Philadelphia.
Earlier in 2008, Coach USA had introduced its Megabus service into the northeastern United States out of a hub near Penn Station which competed at the time with two of the companies purchased by Stagecoach to form what is now Eastern Shuttle. With the acquisition of Eastern and of Today's, Coach USA used Eastern to significantly expand its Megabus service to Philadelphia and DC.
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