Thruway Motorcoach
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Thruway Motorcoach is Amtrak's system of Amtrak-owned intercity coaches, locally contracted transit buses, and taxi services to connect Amtrak train stations to areas not served by its railroads. Train and Thruway Motorcoach tickets are purchased together from Amtrak for the length of a passenger's journey, and the connections are timed for convenient transfers between the two services. In addition to providing connecting service to unserved areas, some Thruway Motorcoaches operate as redundant service along well-established passenger rail corridors to add extra capacity.
By law, passengers may only travel on Amtrak's network of Thruway Motorcoaches when connecting to or from an Amtrak train, a restriction intended to prevent government-subsidized competition with Greyhound Bus Lines and other private bus companies.
California has the most extensive network of Thruway Motorcoaches in the nation.[citation needed]
