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Doesn't seem that bad. Far better than it was before it was renovated.So you have to line up at the coach terminal which is not exactly a pleasant place to spend time.
Doesn't seem that bad. Far better than it was before it was renovated.So you have to line up at the coach terminal which is not exactly a pleasant place to spend time.
I've rarely seen a line-up that's bad enough that you'd bother waiting long outside. I've also never seen a bus take out the line. There's marked areas to stand. And there's a roof. Yes, it's Canada ... it get's cold. Though I've felt more cold standing in St. Clair subway station, with the -20C wind whipping down the tunnel.We're talking about the Kitchener/Waterloo bus, where you have to stand in the shed at platform 13 in -20 degree weather, dodging incoming buses.
Why wouldn't you wait inside? The departure times are on the screen inside. And you can see the buses in the distant, so if something surprising happens, you can wander over to see what's going on.If it's finally possible (presumably due to the explicit time-of-departure now on your ticket) to wait inside, then that is quite something.
I am simply describing every single experience I have ever had taking that bus.
Why wouldn't you wait inside? The departure times are on the screen inside. And you can see the buses in the distant, so if something surprising happens, you can wander over to see what's going on.
On a weekday out of downtown?!? Again, that sounds like a Sunday ... I haven't even seen very full buses on a weekday. People are seeing this on weekdays??Because it's Greyhound - if you don't line up, the bus could fill up entirely and Greyhound wouldn't bother to send another one. That's the kind of experience a lot of people I know have had, and why a number of them have sworn off Greyhound in favour of the two-transfer GO bus trip.
There's a world of difference between Greyhound services to Kitchener, and rural American and western services. The crowd on the Kitchener bus looks the same as a GO Bus. Mostly students.
I said rural American and western services. The incident in question was on a bus from Edmonton to Winnipeg. How is that not a western service?There was also that incident where that guy was beheaded and cannibalized by a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus near Winnipeg a few years back. So it's not just the US.
Agreed. Who is taking the 9:40pm train from Kitchener? Sounds like a re-positioning trip to me.It's sad that VIA has such terrible service levels.