While I’m glad to see some intercity busses again, I’d rather it be a Canadian owned company (whose owners pay their taxes in Canada). That said, I prefer a European foreign owner to an American one.
Why not trains?
Outside of the major commuter routes between large cities, the demand isn’t really there.
Rail has always been a chicken/egg problem
Where was the density to justify a coast to coast railroad in the mid 1800s?
If you build it, they will come
I’m all for the Alto project being a runaway success and spurring nationwide high-speed rail development, make no mistake.
That’s too bad
It is, and maybe it will change some day, but there’s a reason intercity rail is concentrated almost entirely in the Toronto - Quebec City corridor - nowhere else in the country has the population density to justify it (though maybe the Calgary-Edmonton route will get to that point one day).
Hey now, that corridor goes all the way to Windsor and you know it
Don’t leave KW/Guelph outta it, we got GO trains sometimes!
But yea, you’re right. I’d love to take the train everywhere but I really am stuck with 401 alternative only.
I’m pretty confident the Vancouver-Hope corridor could support commuter rail as well. Maybe Victoria to Nanaimo.
That would make sense - I was thinking there were probably some viable BC options, but I honestly never hear people talking about them.
Personally I never shut up about it!
It’s not as if Greyhound was ever all that luxurious but the one Flixbus ride I took had airplane-grade seating, really cramped and horrible for someone of just slightly above-average size…
Yeah, the article doesn’t make it sound like an appealing experience.
One of these latest routes is a trip between the Calgary International Airport and Banff. While Boysan said the company targets customers from all walks of life, most passengers on this trip were backpackers in their early twenties who’d chosen the bus for one reason only.
“We’re kind of like broke college students, so we just got the cheapest thing we could,” Leo Fritsch, 18, said, adding his tickets cost about $25.
I’ve done bus tours in Europe and found them to be quite comfortable 👍🏼
