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Re: America w/o Greyhound and no replacement |
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Posted by BusMgr on Sat Feb 16 12:55:13 2019, in response to Re: America w/o Greyhound and no replacement, posted by Joe V on Sat Feb 16 06:38:04 2019. It started around the time of Greyhound Canada's withdrawal, or a little before then. Initially, Ontario Northland had made an arrangement with Kasper Transportation to connect at Hearst, and for a short time (prior to the Greyhound Canada discontinuance) Kasper extended its route serving Longlac to Hearst, and it made good connections. But it must not have performed well, because after a very short period of time it was pulled back to Longlac. Subsequently, and in connection with the Greyhound Canada withdrawal, Kasper began a new route connecting Thunder Bay with White River, purposefully to fill the Greyhound Canada gap. But in doing so, Kasper looked only at local traffic, people who might be traveling from those otherwise-unserved communities into Thunder Bay, and scheduled a daytime journey. No thought given to through passengers from Toronto, all of whom now have to spend the night in White River (two motels, limited number of rooms). BTW, both Ontario Northland and the Budd car arrive and depart White River at the same times, more or less, with neither making direct connections with Kasper. Essentially it is the same reason why Amtrak is needed for long-distance trainst: if individual states provided subsidies, no state would want to pay for a train at 3:00 a.m. Same thing with Kasper and Ontario Northland: all daytime trips, with nothing overnight. |
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