Greyhound Canada shutting down all bus service permanently

[8bitsrule]

That'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.

[cush]

Was all downhill ever since that beheading

[brailsafe]

There aren't enough hills in the place where that happened.

[dankwizard]

Sorry do you have a link for what this is referencing

[tinus_hn]

Yeah I’m sure a year of lockdowns had nothing to do with it, as lockdowns are free, right?

[mc32]

Do 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]

BoltBus operates cross-border routes starting and ending in Vancouver, but I don't think they offer domestic travel in Canada.

[averagemedian]

Greyhound owns Bolt. At least in the US they do. Not sure about Canada.

[jszymborski]

My understanding is that Megabus has a Montreal/Toronto route.

[redis_mlc]

Greyhound 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.