BU606 Group Assignment 2_Due 13Jun2021
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At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic Greyhound suspended their services due to the decline in
ridership and decrease in revenues because of lockdown restrictions (Lao, 2021).
As the lockdown
restrictions continued throughout the year and spilled over into 2021 Greyhound announced the
permanent closing of their services in Ontario and Quebec. This news hit the hardest for communities
that are already struggling due to poverty, and for communities that are remote. The lack of available
and reliable transportation may be a make or break for specific communities such as the Indigenous and
First Nations communities (Lao, 2021). These impoverished communities’ resort to hitchhiking without
reliable and safe transportation, which has led to the increase in disappearances and murder of
Indigenous women (Lao, 2021). By cutting down on route services to these remote communities we
could see a rise in these cases once again. In addition, by removing services to remote areas this could
also mean that these smaller communities may diminish in the future and cease to exist due to
inadequate transportation for health care and other necessary services (Lao, 2021). According to Matt
Siemiatycki, there could be some private bus companies that may adopt some of the more profitable
and popular routes, leaving out the routes to the more remote areas, or this could put pressure on the
federal government to create a national public bus system but with no clear answer in sight the future of
transportation to these regions remains to be unknown (Lao, 2021).
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Main Points
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Greyhound suspended its service in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic, and then
announced permanently closing its Ontario and Quebec routes in 2021.
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The closure will have the greatest impact on already impoverished communities further
limiting accessibility to family, healthcare, and smaller communities.
Specifically, people from Indigenous and First Nations communities who heavily
rely on Greyhound’s services for safe and reliable travel particularly for
Indigenous women.
A disproportionate number of indigenous women have either gone missing or
were murdered in the last 50 years, BC’s highway of Tears is one of the most
notoriously documented locates for such disappearances. Most Indigenous
women resort to hitchhiking due to lack of available transportation services.
Most indigenous women disappear when resorting to hitchhiking.
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Future of bus services?
Federal funding for a national public bus system?
Private bus companies moving into more profitable/popular routes leaving out
the smaller more remote areas.
Exit Analysis
Greyhound Canada’s revenues have been declining for years due to decrease in transit ridership,
transportation deregulation and due to their unprofitable but necessary routes for some to smaller,
more remote rural areas (Evans, 2021). However, the final nail in the coffin was Greyhound Canada’s
inability to withstand negative financial effects of the pandemic, which further decreased ridership due
to province wide and country restrictions. Greyhound Canada also cited the lack of financial support
during the start of the pandemic from the Provincial and Federal government is what caused the
suspension of services in early 2020 (AP News, 2021).
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Full year without revenue due to decline in ridership hurt the company’s operations (Evans,
2021)
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Evans, 2021 -
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/greyhound-canada-1.6025276
AP News, 2021 -
https://apnews.com/article/canada-health-coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-travel-
90582326cb38dc9e813a2c5ce9e8d929
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