Another in a series of New England getaways on public transportation.
SPRINGFIELD — The museums of the Springfield Quadrangle constitute a Massachusetts mini-Smithsonian. They’re mostly clustered around a plaza with a bronze zoo of Horton, the Whos, the Cat in the Hat, Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel himself, and other fictive figures of tongue-twisting rhyme-jangling fame. When cabin fever sets in and spring seems impossibly far away, an escape to Springfield is not. It’s especially fitting that these treasure houses of art, science, and history grace the hometown of Dr. Seuss, who saw the wonder in everything. As Geisel wrote in “Oh, The Places You’ll Go,” “Out there things can happen / and frequently do / to people as brainy / and footsy as you.” Hop a bus and have a look.
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Peter Pan is clearly RIPPING OFF bus passengers by charging an UNBELIEVABLE $47 round trip ticket price from Boston-Springfield.....since you can easily pay practically HALF that price to go from Boston-NYC.
They can charge what they like. You can choose to ride their buses or not. While the fare sounds perfectly reasonable to me, it's the market that decides. It's called free enterprise. When I was going to UMass Amherst in 1973, round trip busfare to Boston on Peter Pan was $30. Today it's $54. Considering thirty years of inflation and what's happened to the price of gasoline, I'd say the company has done a more than reasonable job of keeping its fares reasonable and competitive, but that's just my opinion. The market decides.