roeco Posted July 8, 2017 Report Share Posted July 8, 2017 Effective July 7 ...Hwy 97 in BC in 100 mile house, Lac La Hache and Cache Creek area is Closed due to several forest fires in area dsirupting all Greyhound service between Vancouver and Prince George via Hwy 97 and Cache Creek to Kamloops service until further notice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roeco Posted July 27, 2017 Report Share Posted July 27, 2017 Eff July 24 Greyhound schedules 5016 and 5033 remain cancelled until further notice. Schedule 5042 Lv Vancouver at 630 am Arr Cache Creek 1210 Lv 1255 is operating as far as 100 Mile House Bc Arr at 215pm. Schedule 5042 is also operating Lv Quesnel at 520pm Arr Pg 650pm. Service remains suspended between 100 Mile House and Quesnel. Also 5035 is operating Lv 100 Mile House 1230 pm arr Cache Creek 2pm, Lv 215 Arr Van at 730pm. Also Lv Prince George 745 am Arr Quesnel 920am. Service remains cancelled between Quesnel and 100 Mile House. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Articulated Posted July 28, 2017 Report Share Posted July 28, 2017 21 hours ago, roeco said: Eff July 24 Greyhound schedules 5016 and 5033 remain cancelled until further notice. Schedule 5042 Lv Vancouver at 630 am Arr Cache Creek 1210 Lv 1255 is operating as far as 100 Mile House Bc Arr at 215pm. Schedule 5042 is also operating Lv Quesnel at 520pm Arr Pg 650pm. Service remains suspended between 100 Mile House and Quesnel. Also 5035 is operating Lv 100 Mile House 1230 pm arr Cache Creek 2pm, Lv 215 Arr Van at 730pm. Also Lv Prince George 745 am Arr Quesnel 920am. Service remains cancelled between Quesnel and 100 Mile House. With the evacuation order being lifted for communities along Highway 97 (including Williams Lake), full service will resume tomorrow between Vancouver/Kamloops and Prince George. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roeco Posted July 28, 2017 Report Share Posted July 28, 2017 2 hours ago, Articulated said: With the evacuation order being lifted for communities along Highway 97 (including Williams Lake), full service will resume tomorrow between Vancouver/Kamloops and Prince George. Service resumes for now....but could be suspended at anytime due to the Fire situation and with Williams Lake and other areas still being on Evacuation alert...alot could happen in the days and weeks ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roeco Posted July 30, 2017 Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 On 7/27/2017 at 9:23 PM, roeco said: Service resumes for now....but could be suspended at anytime due to the Fire situation and with Williams Lake and other areas still being on Evacuation alert...alot could happen in the days and weeks ahead. Clinton,BC was just evacuated this evening and Hwy 97 is Closed Again ...So not surprising...! Service will be cutoff again !! Unless the buses take Hwy 24 at 100 Mile house to get to kamloops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dev161 Posted August 21, 2017 Report Share Posted August 21, 2017 Will Greyhound Canada ever buy new units again ??? Or at least get a newer fleet ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roeco Posted August 21, 2017 Report Share Posted August 21, 2017 Good question....But I hear Sask crown investments has several decent coaches for sale and trailers too...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dev161 Posted August 22, 2017 Report Share Posted August 22, 2017 21 hours ago, roeco said: Good question....But I hear Sask crown investments has several decent coaches for sale and trailers too...lol The greyhounds referbs are starting to fall apart , and when compared to other coach companies they really are not the best fleet wise 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAverageJoe Posted August 22, 2017 Report Share Posted August 22, 2017 Been noticing for the past month or so alot of Greyhound overloads from Toronto on the Southern Ontario routes from Kunkel, Badder and Cherrey. Also notice that Greyhound is doing alot more charter/site seeing work in Niagara and other places. Wondering why if Greyhound is running extra sections or they very short buses due to retirements for them having to get charter company overloads before the busy season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted August 22, 2017 Report Share Posted August 22, 2017 I passed bye to yard today in Toronto and there was a lot of equipment sitting around. One or two blue coaches in the bone yard...are they retired? There was a GO unit in the yard also. Anyone know if GO transit is renting space there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Articulated Posted August 23, 2017 Report Share Posted August 23, 2017 1 hour ago, Shaun said: I passed bye to yard today in Toronto and there was a lot of equipment sitting around. One or two blue coaches in the bone yard...are they retired? There was a GO unit in the yard also. Anyone know if GO transit is renting space there? GO has leased a handful (4-6?) of spaces in Greyhound's Toronto yard for long-term parking for a few years now. There are only 7 layover spaces in the terminal (and 2 on the north side of the barrier), and it's nowhere near enough to store all the buses taking extended layovers. So basically most buses with at least 45 minutes between arrival/departure at Union Station Bus Terminal are scheduled to deadhead to the Greyhound yard and use the layover spots there. Previous to leasing from Greyhound, GO had an arrangement with a parking lot down on Cherry Street - IIRC it was the go kart lot by Polson Street, but it proved problematic in the summer months when the owner needed the parking spaces for their (paying) customers. Before GO had dedicated layover spots, buses would park anywhere in the south end of downtown - Freeland and Cooper Streets were particularly popular, and you could see 1-3 buses on the side of those streets almost anytime of the day. Sometimes buses would use the curb lanes of Bay or Lake Shore as well, and some longer layovers ventured down to side streets in the Port Lands. Basically centralizing the layover spots is more professional, and prevents traffic congestion from buses blocking lanes (and getting tickets for being illegally parked). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted August 23, 2017 Report Share Posted August 23, 2017 I guess it also gives the driver a chance to use the washroom, which is handy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dev161 Posted January 13, 2018 Report Share Posted January 13, 2018 Greyhound will be running 6 Trips to Toronto (Yorkdale) from Carleton University and back for reading week. https://carleton.ca/cab/ride-for-less/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flalex72 Posted January 13, 2018 Report Share Posted January 13, 2018 59 minutes ago, dev161 said: Greyhound will be running 6 Trips to Toronto (Yorkdale) from Carleton University and back for reading week. https://carleton.ca/cab/ride-for-less/ Interesting that they say it's Greyhound this time. In the past, I believe other operators have been used for the Carleton service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Articulated Posted March 8, 2018 Report Share Posted March 8, 2018 Does Greyhound still have any coaches left on Vancouver Island? If not, who are they primarily contracting their runs out to - Tofino or Wilson's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roeco Posted March 9, 2018 Report Share Posted March 9, 2018 Effective Mar.10th Alsask Bus Lines will cease All Operations according to their website. They had just recently started a Regina to Saskatoon run(ended Mar.1) and have since 2011 ran Calgary to Alsask and just started last summer operating all the way to Saskatoon. I would think it must be some kind of internal decision at ASB as they had just bought a new unit for their operations in the fall. That corridor provided a huge alternative to people going from Calgary to Saskatoon as well as parcels too. On 3/7/2018 at 5:56 PM, Articulated said: Does Greyhound still have any coaches left on Vancouver Island? If not, who are they primarily contracting their runs out to - Tofino or Wilson's? I believe they have no coaches on the Island....No idea who their using either...Wilson's maybe? I know they use wilsons for their Vancouver to Whistler and Pemberton service. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roeco Posted March 12, 2018 Report Share Posted March 12, 2018 Greyhound will Cease All remaining Vancouver Island passenger service effective April 4. Tofino Bus will then expand to operating 4 daily trips between Victoria and Nanaimo and will continue as Greyhound's Vancouver Island agent and Interline partner. They will expand to a 5th trip on Fri and Sun effective mid May. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roeco Posted March 20, 2018 Report Share Posted March 20, 2018 Well looks like effective June 1 Alberta will feel the rath of the BC reductions. Major run reductions between Calgary and Edmonton most schedules will be so they connect to/from Vancouver at Calgary,...Fort McMurray and Grande Prairie will be reduced to 1 trip each way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidW Posted June 25, 2018 Report Share Posted June 25, 2018 Rumours continue to circulate that Greyhound Canada might be making news in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and northern Ontario in the early fall, 2018 (and not good news). It could be a tumultuous Fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roeco Posted June 26, 2018 Report Share Posted June 26, 2018 I could maybe see Greyhound reducing frequency on all runs North of Winnipeg. And possibly eliminating Saskatoon to Winnipeg. Also eliminating all service White River to Sudbury and just feeding into Ontario Northland for Service between White River-Sudbury-Toronto and Ottawa as they are already an interline partner with Greyhound. So could be a seemless transition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traildriver Posted June 26, 2018 Report Share Posted June 26, 2018 That would turn the clock back, in a sense... At one time, GLC and ECG were isolated from each other's routes, and relied on Gray Coach Lines to bridge the gap from Toronto to Sudbury. One unique result of that pool, was Gray Coach driver's were the only one, out of all the Greyhound pool partner's in North America, to get to operate the MC-6 Supercruiser... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swadian Posted June 26, 2018 Report Share Posted June 26, 2018 I just looked through the Greyhound Canada System Timetable and if they want to cut more we could anticipate: Ottawa - Sudbury: Discontinued, replaced by Ontario Northland. Kamloops - Kelowna - Penticton: Reduced to 1x daily Calgary - Lethbridge - Kelowna: Reduced to 3x weekly Edmonton - Fort McMurray: Reduced to 1x daily Edmonton - Saskatoon: Discontinued, 1x daily Edmonton - Winnipeg retained Winnipeg - Thompson: Reduced to 3x weekly Winnipeg - Flin Flon: Reduced to 3x weekly Winnipeg - Toronto: Reduced to 3x weekly Thompson - Gilliam: Reduced to 2x weekly Thompson - Cross Lake: Reduced to 1x weekly Toronto Area Commuter Service: Discontinued, replaced by GO Transit Peterborough - Pembroke: Discontinued Toronto - Owen Sound: Discontinued, replaced by GO Transit or Ontario Northland Ottawa - Cornwall: Discontinued Montreal - Ottawa: Replaced by GLI Ottawa - Kingston: Replaced by GLI Toronto - Ottawa: Replaced by GLI Toronto - London: Replaced by GLI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 Posted June 26, 2018 Report Share Posted June 26, 2018 4 hours ago, Swadian said: I just looked through the Greyhound Canada System Timetable and if they want to cut more we could anticipate: Ottawa - Sudbury: Discontinued, replaced by Ontario Northland. Kamloops - Kelowna - Penticton: Reduced to 1x daily Calgary - Lethbridge - Kelowna: Reduced to 3x weekly Edmonton - Fort McMurray: Reduced to 1x daily Edmonton - Saskatoon: Discontinued, 1x daily Edmonton - Winnipeg retained Winnipeg - Thompson: Reduced to 3x weekly Winnipeg - Flin Flon: Reduced to 3x weekly Winnipeg - Toronto: Reduced to 3x weekly Thompson - Gilliam: Reduced to 2x weekly Thompson - Cross Lake: Reduced to 1x weekly Toronto Area Commuter Service: Discontinued, replaced by GO Transit Peterborough - Pembroke: Discontinued Toronto - Owen Sound: Discontinued, replaced by GO Transit or Ontario Northland Ottawa - Cornwall: Discontinued Montreal - Ottawa: Replaced by GLI Ottawa - Kingston: Replaced by GLI Toronto - Ottawa: Replaced by GLI Toronto - London: Replaced by GLI Would GLI want to run stuff in Canada? I’m not sure what you’re getting at with those last few... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted June 26, 2018 Report Share Posted June 26, 2018 6 hours ago, Swadian said: I just looked through the Greyhound Canada System Timetable and if they want to cut more we could anticipate: Ottawa - Sudbury: Discontinued, replaced by Ontario Northland. Kamloops - Kelowna - Penticton: Reduced to 1x daily Calgary - Lethbridge - Kelowna: Reduced to 3x weekly Edmonton - Fort McMurray: Reduced to 1x daily Edmonton - Saskatoon: Discontinued, 1x daily Edmonton - Winnipeg retained Winnipeg - Thompson: Reduced to 3x weekly Winnipeg - Flin Flon: Reduced to 3x weekly Winnipeg - Toronto: Reduced to 3x weekly Thompson - Gilliam: Reduced to 2x weekly Thompson - Cross Lake: Reduced to 1x weekly Toronto Area Commuter Service: Discontinued, replaced by GO Transit Peterborough - Pembroke: Discontinued Toronto - Owen Sound: Discontinued, replaced by GO Transit or Ontario Northland Ottawa - Cornwall: Discontinued Montreal - Ottawa: Replaced by GLI Ottawa - Kingston: Replaced by GLI Toronto - Ottawa: Replaced by GLI Toronto - London: Replaced by GLI Did you just take the whole time table and guess what would happen, based on no factual information? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traildriver Posted June 27, 2018 Report Share Posted June 27, 2018 8 hours ago, ns8401 said: Would GLI want to run stuff in Canada? I’m not sure what you’re getting at with those last few... I don't think it would be legal for GLI to carry passengers wholly within Canada...besides, why would FirstGroup do that, since they still own both? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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