June 6: Seeking Cheap Rides: RVA to New York City (Style Weekly)
June 6, 2012
Attracted by rock-bottom fares of $30 a round trip, Richmond's college students, big city aficionados and penny-pinching retirees often went to a nondescript parking lot near Brook and Parham roads to board a "Chinatown" bus that would whisk them to lower Manhattan in a little more than five hours.
Just over a year ago, however, one such bus hustling all night from Greensboro, N.C., to New York flipped on its side south of Fredericksburg, killing four people and injuring 50. Investigators ...