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Greyhound Canada shutting down all bus service permanently
- 8bitsrule 5y agoThat's terrible news for people who depended on GhC. OTOH, they blame [news.greyhound.ca/] 'the impact of a changing and increasingly challenging transportation environment, including de-regulation and subsidized competition such as VIA Rail and publicly owned bus systems' as well as the May 2020 suspension (which, if I read it right, they state led to a 95% volume loss). So certainly the 'subsidized' and 'public' systems will see a benefit from this loss, and pick up the pieces. Traveling GH was never a picnic, and I doubt it's gotten better in this century.
- mc32 5y agoDo they have something similar to MEGA or BOLT busses in Canada? If so, can they not serve some of these communities, or was the grey hound it?
- pcwalton 5y agoBoltBus operates cross-border routes starting and ending in Vancouver, but I don't think they offer domestic travel in Canada.
- jszymborski 5y agoMy understanding is that Megabus has a Montreal/Toronto route.
- averagemedian 5y agoGreyhound owns Bolt. At least in the US they do. Not sure about Canada.
- Proven 5y agoClimatists must be extatic now that fewer people can take advantage of affordable diesel-powered transportation!
- cush 5y agoWas all downhill ever since that beheading
- brailsafe 5y agoThere aren't enough hills in the place where that happened.
- dankwizard 5y agoSorry do you have a link for what this is referencing
- tchanglington 5y agoThe greyhound beheading incident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean
- dankwizard 5y agoOh wow, and the offender is now living freely since 2017. Good to know.
- leemcd56 5y agoWait WHAT
- canadianfella 5y agoThey Canadian “justice” system is ridiculous.
- corin_ 5y agoThe offender was found to be not criminally responsible due to extreme mental health problem, was put into secure treatment for long time, and eventually considered safe to be in society. Locking him up further would be purely revenge not justice.
- redis_mlc 5y agoGreyhound buses in Ontario and Quebec were like the Twin Otters in Alaska. It's a huge loss for smaller and northern communities. Besides affordable, scheduled passenger service, Greyhound carried film reels for theaters, and likely other materials. Really it was an essential service - I don't see how many rural towns will continue to be viable. Certainly young people will leave for the big city and never return. Note that if Greyhound still owns their city-center terminals, those could be worth a billion dollars.