Greyhound Canada shutting down all bus service permanently

[SouthBayDem]

Source: CBC

Greyhound Canada is shutting down all of its remaining bus routes in Canada, permanently.

The bus company says all of its remaining routes will cease operations as of midnight Thursday.

The iconic bus carrier pulled out of Western Canada in 2018.

It then put its remaining routes in Ontario and Quebec on pause when COVID-19 hit in 2020, but now it is pulling out of domestic Canadian service permanently.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/greyhound-canada-1.6025276

[SharonAnn]

1. I'm sorry to hear that.

[bringthePaine]

2. domo arigato, Mr Roboto🤖 these are not the droids you're looking for...

[Wolf Frankula]

3. No More Canadians will be Greyhound Bound.

Kind of sad.

Wolf

[MineralMan]

4. I suppose Greyhound is on its way out...

Too bad, really. I have a long history with Greyhound buses.

My very first trip was at age 10. My parents put my 9-year-old sister and I on a bus from LA to Phoenix to visit our grandparents. Alone. The driver kept an eye on us, and we were met in Phoenix by our grandparents. We weren't the only unaccompanied kids on the bus, either. There was a lunch stop at one point. The driver rounded us up in time to get back on the bus.

I also rode the bus back and forth from college every couple of weeks. It was cheap and convenient, since I didn't have a car.

My last Greyhound trip was in 1965, when my car had a terminal breakdown in Charleston, SC. I got on a Greyhound there and rode it non-stop to Los Angeles, and then changed buses for one to Santa Barbara.

Every trip on the bus was different, and had a different group of people riding as passengers. I found it fascinating.

These days, few people use Greyhound to go from here to there. It's not a popular way to travel any longer.

[Grasswire2]

5. I have seen some interesting things on Greyhound.

I sometimes took a short route on it between the state's capitol city and my town about 90 minutes away.

There was the time an older woman kept trying to climb into the lap of the driver.

There was the time a passenger died sitting in his seat, and I watched another passenger steal the Christmas packages he had put in the overhead rack.

Oy.

[MineralMan]

6. Yes. Everyone has a story. Sometimes, the person sitting next to you

will tell you that story. That's especially true on long-haul trips. On my 72-hour cross-country trip, I heard many stories, since the person next to me changed every few hours. One young woman was fleeing an abusive boyfriend. An elderly man had just lost his wife and was moving to another city to stay with one of his children. A 15-year-old girl was running away from her mother's home to go live with her father. If you were willing to listen, as I was, almost everyone told his or her story to you. It was quite a journey for me at age 19, back in the early 60s.

I've often thought of turning all those people's stories into a book, and I remember them all very clearly. Probably, its title should just be "Greyhound." I don't remember all of those people's names, but that doesn't matter, really. I remember their stories.

Of course, the narrator of the book also has a story to tell. What was he doing on a 72-hour Greyhound trip on what is now I-40, after all?

I don't know...would anyone read it?

[SKKY]

7. Kinda sad, really. I've traversed this country 3 times on Greyhound...

...from Kentucky to Arizona. Two of those times alone, the first being when I was 11. Those were obviously very different times.