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Van Galder Bus Company
Van Galder motorcoach in downtown Chicago
Parent
Coach USA
Founded
1947 [1]
Headquarters
715 South Pearl Street
Locale
Janesville, Wisconsin
Destinations
Madison and Janesville, Wisconsin, South Beloit and Rockford, Illinois to Chicago (O'Hare, Union Station)
Fleet
150[2]
Operator
Sam Van Galder Inc.
Chief executive
Allen Fugate
Website
at Coach USA
Van Galder Bus Company, legally Sam Van Galder, Inc. is a regional bus service headquartered in Janesville, Wisconsin. A subsidiary of Coach USA, the company had been a family-owned business for over 50 years until it was sold in 1999 to the Stagecoach Group, who retained Stephen Van Galder as president under the Coach USA banner. In 2004, Van Galder acquired Rockford Coach Lines, which provided airport service from Rockford to O'Hare, from Greyhound Lines.[3]
The company operates school buses for the Janesville School district, coach and school bus charters, tour and travel excursions, daily airport shuttles, Amtrak Thruway service to downtown Chicago, and the only intercity service on the I-39/90 corridor.[1] The company has bus terminals in Janesville and Rockford. It picks up curbside in Madison on North Lake Street and at the Dutch Mill Park and Ride and has two pick-ups in Rockford, one on Walton Street for O'Hare customers and one on N. Lyford Street for downtown Chicago customers. However, all buses currently only stop at the Rockford terminal on Walton Street. Service to Chicago Midway Airport was suspended March 17, 2020, and there are no plans to reinstate it.
The corridor served by Van Galder's regularly scheduled service is from:
Madison
University of Wisconsin 200 block of North Lake Street (between Dayton and Johnson Streets), adjacent to the Gordon Commons terrace. (For GPS, use "250 N. Lake St".)
Dutch Mill Park & Ride off the West Beltline Highway and Stoughton Road (Highway 51)
Janesville (Terminal off I-39/90 and Highway 14)
South Beloit (Fas Mart/McDonald's on southeast corner of I-39/90 and Highway 75)
Rockford Terminal off State Street (U.S. Route 20 Business)
to
Chicago
O'Hare International Airport
Chicago Union Station
In September, 2009, the company started double-decker bus service on the route between Madison and downtown Chicago.[4][5]
In June 2024, Coach USA filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, blaming corporate impact caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The company has plans to sell its assets, and has planning to sell its Megabus and Avalon Transportation subsidiaries to Bus Company Holdings, a unit of the Renco Group.[6]
^ abCoach USA, Van Galder - about us
^The Business Journal: Rising diesel costs force industry changes
^"Stagecoach Group PLC and Coach USA, Inc., et al.-Acquisition and Consolidation of Assets-Rockford Coach Lines, L.L.C." Federal Register. May 14, 2004. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
^Karen Rivedal (September 9, 2009). "Van Galder to start double-decker bus service in Madison". Wisconsin State Journal. Retrieved October 3, 2009.
^"Chicago Airport Shuttle Bus Schedules". www.govangalder.com. Retrieved September 21, 2018.
^"Coach USA files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware". Bloomberg Law. June 11, 2024. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
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