Is there currently a Bus from Houston to A&M football games, or a carpool group? There used to be Starline Gameliner, but it doesn't appear to be functioning anymore.

Thanks.

Make sure you don't hire the bus company driver that left his passengers stranded in Hempstead @ 2:15 AM, after he was arrested for DWI on the way back to Houston from the Alabama game.

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Make sure you don't hire the bus company driver that left his passengers stranded in Hempstead @ 2:15 AM, after he was arrested for DWI on the way back to Houston from the Alabama game.

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XMinus1 said:

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Make sure you don't hire the bus company driver that left his passengers stranded in Hempstead @ 2:15 AM, after he was arrested for DWI on the way back to Houston from the Alabama game.

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I saw some short films about a small business that goes around and picks up folks with transportation issues and delivers them to a destination. Check them out. They might be able to help out some in your group. Bang bus.

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I saw some short films about a small business that goes around and picks up folks with transportation issues and delivers them to a destination. Check them out. They might be able to help out some in your group. Bang bus.

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They have a live show during the ride too

I believe the Vonlane group may do Aggie trips. Have used them before to Dallas and Austin as an alternative to flying and it's not bad as a business option. Pick up is downtown Houston so not sure if that's helpful for you.

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Make sure you don't hire the bus company driver that left his passengers stranded in Hempstead @ 2:15 AM, after he was arrested for DWI on the way back to Houston from the Alabama game.

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Impressive he got halfway home in that state of being.

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Make sure you don't hire the bus company driver that left his passengers stranded in Hempstead @ 2:15 AM, after he was arrested for DWI on the way back to Houston from the Alabama game.

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Impressive he got halfway home in that state of being.

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And the toughest part of the drive. That gameday traffic leaving college station is no joke

Milwaukees Best Light said:

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I saw some short films about a small business that goes around and picks up folks with transportation issues and delivers them to a destination. Check them out. They might be able to help out some in your group. Bang bus.

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Thanks young Ag, I'll check it out. I guess the name means "More bang for the buck, eh?" Sounds like the perfect way to take my grandkids and some folks from church to see Aggieland. I'm not good with videos, so I'll post a note on Facebook to let them all know to look for "Bang Bus" videos.

Was the DWI arrest before or after the flyover in Hemppstead?

Before!!!

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I believe the Vonlane group may do Aggie trips. Have used them before to Dallas and Austin as an alternative to flying and it's not bad as a business option. Pick up is downtown Houston so not sure if that's helpful for you.

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Vonlane no longer does a Houston to College Station trip.

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Is there currently a Bus from Houston to A&M football games, or a carpool group? There used to be Starline Gameliner, but it doesn't appear to be functioning anymore.

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It's amazingly hard to get the interest in such a bus. Dallas works since everyone in the Dallas area would heading straight thru downtown Dallas en route to College Station. Therefore, stopping 30 minutes into that trip to get on the bus is easy. Plus, the bus trip is still 3 hours from downtown Dallas.

Houston on the other hand has people coming from south, north, central Houston. All of these have separate routes (290, 249, 105). Also it's only 1.5 hours from downtown Houston. It's not worth your while to drive 30-45 minutes off your route for a 1.5 hour trip. Also, multiple pick up stops around would take 1 - 1.5 hours in itself.

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Is there currently a Bus from Houston to A&M football games, or a carpool group? There used to be Starline Gameliner, but it doesn't appear to be functioning anymore.

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It's amazingly hard to get the interest in such a bus. Dallas works since everyone in the Dallas area would heading straight thru downtown Dallas en route to College Station. Therefore, stopping 30 minutes into that trip to get on the bus is easy. Plus, the bus trip is still 3 hours from downtown Dallas.

Houston on the other hand has people coming from south, north, central Houston. All of these have separate routes (290, 249, 105). Also it's only 1.5 hours from downtown Houston. It's not worth your while to drive 30-45 minutes off your route for a 1.5 hour trip. Also, multiple pick up stops around would take 1 - 1.5 hours in itself.

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Just one or two pickup spot along 290 then? Bus leaves Karbach for the game, makes one stop at the outlet malls on 99. That'd put it in range for the vast majority of Houstonians to Uber to the pickup/dropoff spot if they plan on getting wasted.

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Just one or two pickup spot along 290 then? Bus leaves Karbach for the game, makes one stop at the outlet malls on 99. That'd put it in range for the vast majority of Houstonians to Uber to the pickup/dropoff spot if they plan on getting wasted.

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Try it out. The Auburn weekend should give you plenty of time. My recommendation is for everyone to pre-pay via PayPal for an RSVP. $40/person round trip @ 50 seats/bus will give you a budget for a nice bus. Feel free to read though the Dallas bus page for hints.

https://texags.com/forums/37/topics/3198881

Haha I'm not a taker. I don't drink a whole lot these days. Just brainstorming for the younger tine residents that want to get this thing going

Hasn't there been bar busses rented out for games?

How did I miss the news about the DWI bus for Alabama?

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Just one or two pickup spot along 290 then? Bus leaves Karbach for the game, makes one stop at the outlet malls on 99. That'd put it in range for the vast majority of Houstonians to Uber to the pickup/dropoff spot if they plan on getting wasted.

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There were one or two threads attempted at discussing the idea in years past, and you couldn't two Ags in the same neighborhood to agree on a reasonable pick-up spot, let alone enough to charter a bus. Plano pretty much summed it up earlier.

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Houston on the other hand has people coming from south, north, central Houston. All of these have separate routes (290, 249, 105). Also it's only 1.5 hours from downtown Houston. It's not worth your while to drive 30-45 minutes off your route for a 1.5 hour trip. Also, multiple pick up stops around would take 1 - 1.5 hours in itself.

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But wait! Let's spend billions on a high-speed railroad to connect Northwest Mall to Roans Prairie. Aggies everywhere would totally pay $200/ea for a ticket to ride on game day.

https://texags.com/forums/38/topics/2873778

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Houston on the other hand has people coming from south, north, central Houston. All of these have separate routes (290, 249, 105). Also it's only 1.5 hours from downtown Houston. It's not worth your while to drive 30-45 minutes off your route for a 1.5 hour trip. Also, multiple pick up stops around would take 1 - 1.5 hours in itself.

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But wait! Let's spend billions on a high-speed railroad to connect Northwest Mall to Roans Prairie. Aggies everywhere would totally pay $200/ea for a ticket to ride on game day.

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that train isnt for us pleebs. Its for the business travelers who can expense it to the corporate account. I kind of get them attempting to add an A&M stop to get college students and football fans to use it. But unless that shuttle from Roans Prairie to College Station is subsidized by the train company, it will be a net loss for whoever is running it.

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Houston on the other hand has people coming from south, north, central Houston. All of these have separate routes (290, 249, 105). Also it's only 1.5 hours from downtown Houston. It's not worth your while to drive 30-45 minutes off your route for a 1.5 hour trip. Also, multiple pick up stops around would take 1 - 1.5 hours in itself.

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But wait! Let's spend billions on a high-speed railroad to connect Northwest Mall to Roans Prairie. Aggies everywhere would totally pay $200/ea for a ticket to ride on game day.

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that train isnt for us pleebs. Its for the business travelers who can expense it to the corporate account. I kind of get them attempting to add an A&M stop to get college students and football fans to use it. But unless that shuttle from Roans Prairie to College Station is subsidized by the train company, it will be a net loss for whoever is running it.

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It turns out stopping at the Roans Prairie site for travelers is secondary. It's really for the location of the trains' storage/maintenance site. Not enough real estate at the ends of the line in Dallas or Houston.

The way the guesstimates of ticket prices keep going up, it will be cheaper to rent a vehicle at Northwest Mall for the weekend than buy a train/bus ticket to College Station (or Huntsville). And the trip may not take much more time.

I was part of this bus ride and it was a wild and scary experience. We booked our reservation with Lance Cavazos of Cool Bus Houston (Class of 2006) for the Alabama game to get us safely back and forth from Houston. The week of the game, our group was informed that his bus was experiencing "mechanical problems", the bus we reserved would be unavailable for the weekend, and that he arranged a secondary company to transport us. The drive to CS had no issues. The post-game traffic was hectic due to the stadium not clearing till after the field rush, but after the game, we are unable to get a location of our driver for over an hour. After many calls and texts, in which he couldn't articulate his location or how to drop his iPhone pin location, we finally found him and started our "journey" back to Houston.

Once we got out of CS and on Highway 6 to Houston, we noticed that he could not keep the bus straight and was swerving in and out of the lanes on Highway 6, hitting the rumble strips multiple times. We then notice he is drinking from a red solo cup, which was a surprise to us, as no cups were brought on the bus by our party. After multiple attempts to tell him to pull over and let us out, we were finally able to get him to pull the bus over and park at a Chevron gas station north of Hempstead. We smelled the cup that the driver had been drinking and could tell it was alcohol inside. He then became belligerent so we proceeded to call the cops and he was arrested and booked for a DWI by the Waller County Police, but now its 1:30am and our group is stranded without rides. Some of our group called their parents/wives (including XMinus1) from Houston to pick them up with some of our group even grabbing a ride back from random good AGS that were headed back to Houston that were at the gas station.

Fast forward to today….. we have attempted to get a refund for the trip from Cool Bus Houston and the secondary company (which has very limited information available), but both companies are balking and are refusing to reimburse our payment for the trip. It is getting ridiculous and litigation may be upcoming.

I would not book a reservation with Lance Cavazos of Cool Bus Houston (Class of 2006) after dealing with this prolonged mess.

I guess no one in the group was sober or courageous enough to see if they could drive that bad boy the rest of the way to Htown?

Sucks that happened but that's kind of a cool topper for a great game at Kyle if you could get your money back.

I guess for that bus driver Highway 6 did indeed go both ways for him that evening.

Holy crap

That driver had one job to do!! Woof.

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I guess no one in the group was sober or courageous enough to see if they could drive that bad boy the rest of the way to Htown?

Sucks that happened but that's kind of a cool topper for a great game at Kyle if you could get your money back.

I guess for that bus driver Highway 6 did indeed go both ways for him that evening.

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the cops are probably not going to release the bus to someone that has no legal right to possess it and probably doesn't have a license to drive such a vehicle.

I was joking.

It's a messed up situation. I can't imagine being in a state where I was responsible for driving people in a private bus and couldn't lay off the sauce for a few hours. Makes me wonder how the dude even got hired in the first place. I'd wager he's got some previous DUI arrests if he can't drive a commercial bus without knocking back a few.

Either way, I hope at minimum the passengers get their money back. All things considered that's the least that could be done at this point. I'm sure there's lawyers holding that up.

Can you dispute the credit card charge and send the bank the loser's arrest record? Assuming it was booked on a card…

Mr. McGuffie - Lance Cavazos, Class of '05 here...one of my buddies informed me of this thread so I would like to take a minute to reply and shed some light on the situation. Since our bus was out of commission for this event, we did coordinate with another company to fulfill the reservation and provide the transportation for your party. This driver behavior is not condoned by Cool Bus Houston and would never happen on our watch. I am appalled and disgusted by the careless actions of the driver that evening. I have touched base with the customer who booked and issued a full refund. To be clear, there was never any "balking" of a refund from me and Cool Bus Houston. We always want to make things right and ensure everyone always has a positive experience with Cool Bus Houston, even if it's second-hand through another company. I have addressed this matter directly with the other company to let them know our disappointment and disgust with their driver. I always pride myself on unmatched customer service and am very disappointed to hear that the other company could not match our standards. Needless to say, I will never work with this company again.

I don't have a dog in this fight but Lance Cavazos of Cool Bus Houston (Class of 2006) is good people.

On a related note, at least since the government COVID relief payments/worker shortage began, companies are struggling to find CDL drivers. School districts can't find bus drivers, there's not enough truckers to service the ports to the point regulations are in the process of being relaxed, and even COTA couldn't find shuttle drivers for the Grand Prix. It's tough to be small business owner in this segment these days.