INTERCITY BUS ROUTES - HISTORY

UTAH

Intercity Bus Map/1976

Color coded map shows intercity bus routes in existence in 1976.

Blue indicates Greyhound, red indicates Trailways. Additional colors indicate significant independent bus companies, and are identified with labels. Black indicates smaller independent companies.

Thin blue or red lines indicate routes which were once part of Greyhound or Trailways, but later transferred to independent bus companies.

Beginning in 1917, intrastate bus service in Utah was regulated by the Utah Public Utilities Commission, later the Utah Public Service Commission.


GREYHOUND BUS COMPANIES

Overland Greyhound Lines
Pacific Greyhound Lines

TRAILWAYS BUS COMPANIES

Burlington Transportation Co./Burlington Trailways
Denver-Salt Lake-Pacific Stages/Trailways
Rio Grande Motor Way/Rio Grande Trailways

INDEPENDENT BUS COMPANIES

Additional Bus Companies

Early Certificates of Convenience and Necessity

Bus companies listed in Annual Reports of the Utah Public Utilities Commission.

Obscure Interurban/Intercity Bus Companies

The most obscure bus companies, not listed in the Russell's Guide but mentioned in the 1952 Mass Transportation's Directory, or sometimes mentioned in the WPA Federal Writers Project/American Guide Series books.


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