page_title: Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach
hierarchical_section_title: Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach
caption_attribution_description: English: A Van Hool C2045L Amtrak California Thruway Motorcoach at Bakersfield station.
context_page_description: Thruway Motorcoach is Amtrak's system of Amtrak-owned intercity coaches, locally contracted transit buses, through-ticketed local bus routes, and taxi services to connect Amtrak train stations to areas not served by its railroads, or stations which are disconnected temporarily due to service delays or track maintenance issues. 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 dedicated and guaranteed-reliable 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.
  From 1999 to 2019, California state law only allowed tickets for California routes to be sold as part of train journeys. However, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 742 on October 8, 2019, which repealed this bill.
  Amtrak establishes temporary Thruway Motorcoach service when normal rail service encounters disruptions.
context_section_description: Thruway Motorcoach is Amtrak's system of Amtrak-owned intercity coaches, locally contracted transit buses, through-ticketed local bus routes, and taxi services to connect Amtrak train stations to areas not served by its railroads, or stations which are disconnected temporarily due to service delays or track maintenance issues.  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 dedicated and guaranteed-reliable 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.
  From 1999 to 2019, California state law only allowed tickets for California routes to be sold as part of train journeys.  However, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 742 on October 8, 2019, which repealed this bill.
  Amtrak establishes temporary Thruway Motorcoach service when normal rail service encounters disruptions.
caption: A Van Hool C2045L Amtrak California Thruway Motorcoach at the Bakersfield, California, station
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