The American bus revival

[Lars77]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16881957

Motor coaches are the fastest growing form of long-distance transport in the United States, and British-owned companies are leading the charge. So has the US finally learned to love the bus?

"Imagine if William Shatner had crashed a plane into the side of a building. The airline industry would go crazy."

Dan Ronan, chief spokesman for the American Bus Association, has a bone to pick with Captain Kirk.

The object of his irritation is an advertisement for travel website Priceline, currently on heavy rotation on American television, which features William Shatner on board a bus that plunges over a precipice and explodes in a spectacular fireball.

[Ron Green]

1. Buses are way comfortable now,

at least in my experience. Unlike the smelly rattletraps of old.

[pinboy3niner]

2. "I said warp speed. Warp speed, dammit!"

[Dead_Parrot]

3. So, more people can be thrown under them?

Where did that phrase come from, anyway?

[moriah]

4. Did people finally get sick of being felt up to fly?

We are one bomb in an uncomfortable place away from mandatory cavity searches, I swear.

[flobee1]

5. I did!

I'm bussing it to chicago for a week this spring to see the sights.