nfitz
Superstar
Northland stops at the station, but it also stops at the VIA station, and according to the schedule the terminus is CHEO. Presumably they could simply stop along any street anywhere - or just run from the VIA station.
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lenaitch
Senior Member
For your compilation, sir.
www.simcoe.com
Simcoe County set to launch Midland-to-Orillia transit service
A new regional transit route that will connect Midland and Orillia is set to launch in August.
ShonTron
Moderator
For your compilation, sir.
Simcoe County set to launch Midland-to-Orillia transit service
A new regional transit route that will connect Midland and Orillia is set to launch in August.
Great to see that go ahead, as it will make useful stops in Victoria Harbour, Waubaushene, and Coldwater as well as directly connecting Orillia and Midland.
The Selwyn-Curve Lake First Nation service is also set to go May 3, 2021; maps, schedules, and fares are now online. The two routes (Lakefield/Curve Lake and Bridgenorth/Ennismore) connect to Peterborough Transit (and, via a walk to the east bank to GO Transit) at Trent University; fares include a free transfer to Peterborough Transit.
Allandale25
Senior Member
AlbertC
Superstar
Ottawa's Greyhound station on Catherine Street has been sold to a developer:
ottawacitizen.com
Egan: Bus station gone, Greyhound eyes link with LRT, transitway
For the first time in almost 100 years, Ottawa has no inter-city bus station, and there doesn't seem to be a known plan for a replacement.
ottawacitizen.com
Allandale25
Senior Member
Not directly related to the topic but still interesting.
Amare
Senior Member
I dont know how I missed this. Simply an incredible, short-sighted, and stupid decision by Ottawa. At least try and come up with a concrete plan before just blindfully selling off the property.Ottawa's Greyhound station on Catherine Street has been sold to a developer:
Egan: Bus station gone, Greyhound eyes link with LRT, transitway
For the first time in almost 100 years, Ottawa has no inter-city bus station, and there doesn't seem to be a known plan for a replacement.
TRONto
Active Member
Amare
Senior Member
The fact that both the Feds and to an extent, various provincial governments allowed them to go belly up completely is just shameful.
There are many cities/towns that are now permanently losing connections to each other, and now the costs of travel will be going up fairly substantially. There's no replacement even in the books for a lot of the more popular routes (ie: Toronto to Detroit, via London).
But that's fine, lets just allow large corporations to piss away Wage subsidy money on share buybacks/dividends. Meanwhile vital transport companies go out of business altogether.
There are many cities/towns that are now permanently losing connections to each other, and now the costs of travel will be going up fairly substantially. There's no replacement even in the books for a lot of the more popular routes (ie: Toronto to Detroit, via London).
But that's fine, lets just allow large corporations to piss away Wage subsidy money on share buybacks/dividends. Meanwhile vital transport companies go out of business altogether.
Garuda
Active Member
Oh no! Anyways...
greyhound deserved to go under. They made no effort to adopt to electronic ticket and take advantage of the internet. All they had was a monopoly on intercity. Clear example of failing to adopt.
After taking BlaBla Bus in Europe before the pandemic they ran a great system. Didn’t have to print my tickets and the bus driver had an electronic manifest if riders. Just had to show my I’d to board.
looking forward to Ontario Northland running bus service Ottawa all the way to Winnipeg and multiple operators running competitive service in southern Ontario.
SubHuman
Active Member
You could definitely buy tickets on the internet. I travelled to both London and Windsor some time in the last five or ten years, and bought the ticket at least one of those times on the internet, though I recall having to do it at a public library where I could print the ticket since I've never had a printer at home.
Garuda
Active Member
I had to print mine too. Which is absolutely ludicrous with current technology such as Apple Wallet and QR codes.
bgb_ca
New Member
Yes i agree. Airlines and even Via lets you scan a QR code from your phone. Why could you not do it with them?
littlewill1166
Active Member
The had stops where you would just give your printed ticket to the driver and they'd just hold onto it. The drivers didn't have any equipment to scan the tickets. Some of my friends would just buy one ticket, and print it 3 times and split it. I had an Unlimited VIA pass so I didn't participate.
Amare
Senior Member
There's no doubt Greyhound Canada used some antiquated technology and operated like they were in the stone age, that's a point I wont dispute at all.
From a bus perspective; asides from the Prevost fleet of buses both sides operated, the Canadian fleet was definitely much more comfortable compared to the American fleet. I wouldnt be surprised if the Americans brought up the junk buses to operate the Canada-U.S routes.
From a bus perspective; asides from the Prevost fleet of buses both sides operated, the Canadian fleet was definitely much more comfortable compared to the American fleet. I wouldnt be surprised if the Americans brought up the junk buses to operate the Canada-U.S routes.