Bus hub · Intercity coaches
Dallas is the northern vertex of the Texas Triangle — and its intercity coach scene is the most Texan in America. In December 2025 Greyhound and FlixBus moved into a new terminal on Harry Hines Boulevard across from DART’s Bachman Station, leaving the downtown Lamar Street station behind. Above them floats Vonlane, the Dallas-born “private jet on wheels”: 16-to-22-seat coaches, an attendant, meals included — from $99 across the Triangle.
The intercity workhorse got a new home on 9 December 2025: Flix North America — parent of Greyhound and FlixBus — opened its Dallas Bus Station at 9755 Harry Hines Boulevard, directly across from DART’s Bachman Station, phasing out the legacy terminal at 205 South Lamar in downtown. The placement is the point: for the first time in decades Dallas’ long-distance coaches interline with the light-rail network (Green and Orange lines) and sit minutes from Love Field. FlixBus keeps a second stop in Deep Ellum for the downtown crowd.
The move closes a chapter in American bus geography: the Lamar Street station had anchored Dallas intercity travel for generations, and its replacement was designed with the city explicitly as a node in a national network — “one of the most important hubs in the national intercity bus network,” as Flix put it. For the budget traveller, the practical map is simple: Greyhound and FlixBus run the long-distance lattice — Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Memphis and beyond — from a single transit-connected terminal.
Dallas invented a category. Vonlane, founded here in May 2014, stripped the motorcoach down to 16 (now up to 22) first-class leather seats, added an onboard attendant, complimentary meals, beer and wine, satellite Wi-Fi that holds signal across rural Texas, and a conference room in the back — then aimed it at the lawyer-lobbyist-consultant traffic of the Texas Triangle. Fares run $99–159 one-way; Dallas–Austin takes about 3.5 hours, Dallas–Houston about four. Boarding happens at private lounges and partner hotels — near Love Field in Dallas, downtown in Austin, the Galleria and Memorial in Houston — never at a public bus station.
The model keeps extending: Fort Worth and The Woodlands (June 2025) filled out the Texas map; Plano ↔ North Austin (February 2025, 38 weekly departures) took the brand suburban for the first time; and the network has jumped state lines to Atlanta–Nashville–Memphis. In a series that has tracked bus hubs from Delhi to São Paulo, Vonlane is the outlier worth the reader’s attention: not a discount carrier fighting for the curb, but a Dallas firm that repriced the coach as a productive alternative to a short-haul flight — and made the Texas Triangle its proof of concept.
The TIO Read: Dallas’ coach scene is the series’ clearest case of market segmentation done right — Greyhound and FlixBus own the price-sensitive lattice from a proper transit-connected terminal, while Vonlane prints money selling the same highway miles at airfares to people who bill by the hour. The reviewer’s call: for any Triangle itinerary under 250 miles, price Vonlane against Southwest before you book wings — three and a half calm hours with Wi-Fi and lunch beat the security line at Love Field; and if you are watching the industry, watch whether the December 2025 terminal move lifts Greyhound’s Dallas throughput the way Flix promised the city it would.
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