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The GLI has continued to experience difficulties and lackluster performance under a succession of new owners and new executives – while continuing to reduce its level of service – by hauling fewer passengers aboard fewer coaches on fewer trips along fewer routes with fewer stops in fewer
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When
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Greyhound Corporation reorganized again, into just two humongous divisions, named as the Greyhound Lines East (GLE) and the Greyhound Lines West (GLW); even later (about -70) it eliminated those two divisions, thereby leaving a single gargantuan undivided nationwide fleet.
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Southern GL came into existence, the headquarters functions became gradually transferred from Lexington, Kentucky, and Charleston, West Virginia, to Atlanta, Georgia; when GLE arose, many of those administrative functions became shifted from Atlanta to Cleveland, Ohio; eventually those
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service from Miami to Fort
Lauderdale and to Homestead – throughout Florida along all the major routes – except one (in the southwest part of the peninsula), which was the exclusive territory of the Tamiami Trail Tours (a member of the Trailways trade association, then named as the
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Greyhound Corporation (the original Greyhound umbrella firm), which had become widely diversified far beyond transportation, sold its entire highway-coach operating business (its core bus business), to a new company, named as the Greyhound Lines, Inc., called also GLI, based in
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and to the north and northwest (in
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However, in one notable instance (among others), the FML obtained a certificate (of public necessity and convenience) for a new route extending from
Homestead (near the tip of the mainland on
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several properties which it had bought and operated in the Sunshine State. The FML then owned 150 coaches and ran them along 1,290 route miles.
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bought the Florida Motor Lines (FML), then in the next month Greyhound renamed it as the Florida Greyhound Lines (FGL).
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287:Louisville
255:Fort Myers
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214:Titusville
167:US Route 1
65:management
460:in 1990.
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428:investors
311:Cleveland
291:Nashville
218:Melbourne
202:uppercase
123:Tampa Bay
102:in 1921.
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32:into the
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618:Backfire
486:See also
374:Savannah
238:commuter
198:division
175:Key West
450:lenders
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380:to the
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319:Toronto
307:Detroit
303:Atlanta
295:Memphis
283:Chicago
271:Houston
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259:Naples
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