No surprise that Greyhound has applied to remove service. With the Northern Medical bus and the recent short haul Translink buses, many of their passengers have been relocated to a subsidized service.
In addition, the competition between air carriers has reduced their ticket prices below that of the bus in many cases.
Why is government setting up subsided services in competition to independent business? What's next? Airlines, accountants, etc?
Greyhound is also complicit in this removal of service. To attract and retain riders they need to improve their service. It is still like the 1950s to take a bus.
A proper reservation service would assure a seat and enable travel with an expectation of keeping appointments.
The buses need to be dragged into the 21st century with toilets, food service, WiFi, seat belts, etc. How about an express service between towns to make the travel times comparable with flying?
It would seem that Greyhound has a long term strategy of "cherry picking" routes by concentrating on those with high ridership and letting government pick up the transport for the rest.
Over to you, all levels of government. You have allowed this situation to occur, now sort it out!
Paul Collard
Vanderhoof
