Intercity bus transportation

[danbrotherston]

There's likely more fuel and maintenance costs involved in a large versus small bus, but I can't imagine it was all that great. Greyhound just never made a whole lot of money in Canada, at least compared to the USA. Fewer people, fewer cities, greater distances means they never had huge ridership numbers. When people travel a long distance here, they just fly, assuming they aren't really trying to save money. Trains don't even count because people only take those long distances for the novelty factor.

When I first moved to Kitchener, a lot of people were using Greyhound to go to Toronto but it deteriorated over the years.

Greyhound did little to update their service for decades. I'm sure they actually make a lot of money, but with the pandemic, and their lack of investment (i.e., infrastructure debt), there was little future prospect for earning. Most aspects of their service was terrible, but they had a lot of legacy artefacts (stations, customers) that were valuable and it is a shame that nothing was done to provide a real transition. I'm not sorry they're gone, but it really says a lot about our priorities that we did nothing to provide continuity of service.