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Greyhound Canada suspends all bus routes in Canada due to COVID-19
Demand has plunged by 95% during pandemic
CBC News · Posted: May 07, 2020 8:19 AM ET
Greyhound Canada will halt all of its bus routes in Canada starting next Wednesday, May 13, because of the coronavirus.
The company controversially stopped its service in Western Canada in 2018, but the pandemic has caused ticket sales for its remaining routes in the eastern part of the country to plummet by 95 per cent.
The company has already scaled back its operations during the pandemic, including nine other routes between Canada on April 5th, and three trans-border routes between Niagara Falls, Ont., and Buffalo, N.Y.; Windsor, Ont., and Detroit; and Montreal and Champlain, N.Y.
The company said that as of midnight next Tuesday, the following remaining routes will no longer be in service:
"We regret the difficulty that this will cause them, but this decision came as a last resort option to address the uncontrollable consequences and devastating impacts of this pandemic,"
About 400 employees will be temporarily laid off as a result of the decision.
Demand has plunged by 95% during pandemic
CBC News · Posted: May 07, 2020 8:19 AM ET
Greyhound Canada will halt all of its bus routes in Canada starting next Wednesday, May 13, because of the coronavirus.
The company controversially stopped its service in Western Canada in 2018, but the pandemic has caused ticket sales for its remaining routes in the eastern part of the country to plummet by 95 per cent.
The company has already scaled back its operations during the pandemic, including nine other routes between Canada on April 5th, and three trans-border routes between Niagara Falls, Ont., and Buffalo, N.Y.; Windsor, Ont., and Detroit; and Montreal and Champlain, N.Y.
The company said that as of midnight next Tuesday, the following remaining routes will no longer be in service:
- Windsor to London
- London to Toronto and Toronto Airport
- London to Kitchener
- London to Toronto Local (Woodstock, Brantford, Hamilton, Mississauga)
- Toronto to Ottawa
- Ottawa to Montreal
- Ottawa to Kingston
- Kitchener/Guelph to Toronto
"We regret the difficulty that this will cause them, but this decision came as a last resort option to address the uncontrollable consequences and devastating impacts of this pandemic,"
About 400 employees will be temporarily laid off as a result of the decision.
christiesplits
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Ooof. Another blow to intercity transit in Ontario.
Admiral Beez
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It’s the passengers that left, not the service. Greyhound will return to its profitability routes once this is over.
APTA-2048
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From what I’ve been hearing floating around the industry: don’t count on it.
Greyhound had its share of troubles even before the pandemic.
Admiral Beez
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I’d be happy if they didn’t have the murders.
Greyhound: Apart from that, how was your experience today?
Probably listening to Talking Heads. BOOO!:( Too soon...
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tmlittle
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Smart. This looks manageably short and should be a good feeder for the Barrie line.
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Delayed by COVID-19, but good to see it’s still happening. Five trips a day, weekdays, between Woodstock, Ingersoll, and Tillsonburg, connecting with VIA.
I’d like to see VIA restore more service west of Toronto as well.
Northern Light
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From a good friend of UT on Twitter, several updates on expanded inter-city bus service in Ontario:
This last one is significant to me in terms of opening up mobility options, and shifting people to sustainable choices. Hourly service is a really viable option (not by Toronto standards, but for communities of this size, quite good)
The unfortunate element is a very narrow 'span of service'
Its essentially 7am-6pm M-F only.
No evenings, no weekends.
This last one is significant to me in terms of opening up mobility options, and shifting people to sustainable choices. Hourly service is a really viable option (not by Toronto standards, but for communities of this size, quite good)
The unfortunate element is a very narrow 'span of service'
Its essentially 7am-6pm M-F only.
No evenings, no weekends.
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north-of-anything
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That span of service perfectly matches the existing conditions of the local bus system in Bradford, so I'm not surprised. The intention is probably so that you can connect to BWG buses, so weekend service would strand people on Holland Street.
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Most Linx buses only run on weekdays - the one exception is the Wasaga-Collingwood route, which used to be operated by the local transit agencies.
Northern Light
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Of course, the answer to this is to support expanded span of service on local routes.
Perhaps not every route is suited to this.
But people have need to travel on weekends and in the evening.
Anything connecting to Wasaga should obviously run weekends/evenings to encourage people to get there by transit whenever possible and not to drive drunk! (this is a known issue w/Wasaga).
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The bus to Wasaga Beach already connects to GO trains and buses at Allandale (unlike the buses to Midland and Orillia that terminate at RVH/Georgian College), and it should be the first of the longer-distance routes to get weekend/holiday service,, at least as a seasonal pilot. If Barrie goes ahead with building a new terminal at Allandale, I'd like to see better integration between the Linx and Barrie Transit to fill the fare/service gap between the two terminals.