If you go to college in a small town, getting to campus without a car can be a pain. There might be plenty of ways to get from New York City to Rochester, Syracuse, or Binghamton. But if your campus is another 30 or 40 miles away, you still have to figure out that last part of the trip. We were seeing this with students at SUNY Brockport. A lot of students were already taking OurBus between New York City…
Most OurBus routes board in one of two places: a cluster of Midtown stops, or the George Washington Bridge Bus Station uptown. A few services use other locations entirely. For many routes the destination sets your boarding area for you, and three upstate routes offer no Midtown option at all. Why Do OurBus Routes Board in Different Places? The pattern broadly follows the direction of travel. Several upstate services board uptown at the George Washington Bridge Bus Station, which sits…
Between nothing and sixteen hours, though the longest window means arriving before dawn. A DC day trip from NYC turns on one number: the last OurBus back from Washington leaves at 7:30 PM. The ride south is 3 hrs 30 min to 5 hrs 50 min. Therefore a noon departure leaves under four hours, and an afternoon one nothing. Key Takeaways The last bus back from Washington is 7:30 PM on the current schedule. Confirm it when you book, because everything…
Count your hours first, then pick the corridor — not the other way around. Depending on when you can leave on Friday and when you must be home on Sunday, an OurBus weekend is anywhere from about 35 hours to 49, and each of those numbers points at a different route. Find your number below, then read only that section. How Many Hours Do You Actually Have? That is the one question worth answering first, and almost nobody asks it. Ground…
Here is how OurBus works, end to end: you book a single seat on a scheduled intercity route through the app or the website, get an e-ticket by email, show the mobile pass to the driver at your stop, and ride. Most stops are a marked spot on the curb rather than a terminal, and nothing needs printing. Key Takeaways Booking is online only, through the OurBus app or website. No cash, and no tickets sold by phone or at…
Because of frequency, not marketing. On the busiest OurBus corridors you can leave almost any hour: New York to Philadelphia runs 19 to 20 buses a day from $9, and New York to Boston runs up to 20. Intercity bus travel stopped being a compromise when the departure board started looking like a train timetable. Key Takeaways Fares start at $9 on New York to Philadelphia, the busiest of the ten corridors we checked at 19 to 20 buses a day.…
Yes, and the savings are bigger than most students expect. College student bus travel on OurBus runs from $9 one way, and OurBus Select takes $15 off each of your next 10 rides, worth up to $150. What matters most is whether an OurBus route serves your campus. Key Takeaways Fares start at $9 (New York to Philadelphia) and top out around $26 on the upstate college runs. OurBus Select saves up to $150, at $15 off each of your next…
By making one decision in August rather than chasing fares in November. Back-to-school travel gets expensive because of the car, not the ticket. Cornell charges $752.98 for a year of on-campus resident parking. Twelve one-way OurBus tickets between New York and Ithaca come to $300. The permit alone costs more than the entire year of bus travel. Key Takeaways A full academic year of trips home costs $108 to $300 on the five OurBus corridors we priced. Cornell’s on-campus resident permit…
The best OurBus weekend escape of the year is not Labor Day weekend. It is the three weekends right after it: September 12, 19 and 26, 2026. The crowds have gone home, fares sit near their floor, and Atlantic water is at its warmest of the year. Summer does not end when the holiday does. Key Takeaways Summer does not officially end until the equinox, in the third week of September. The three weekends after Labor Day are still summer.…
Labor Day 2026 falls on Monday, September 7, giving you a three-day weekend from Saturday, September 5. The quickest way to lock in a trip is to book one of five OurBus master corridors: New York to Washington DC, Boston, Philadelphia, Ithaca or Binghamton. Fares start at $9 and buses run up to 20 times a day. Key Takeaways Labor Day 2026 is Monday, September 7. The travel crunch runs Friday, September 4 through Tuesday, September 8. The cheapest master route…