Editor,
Greyhound has been cutting bus service in Canada for years, and vice-president Stuart Kendrick’s response to our op-ed shows Greyhound’s corporate owners (FirstGroup) have no intention of reversing this decline.
Instead of decisive improvement, the best Kendrick can envision is inadequate “bus services continue for the long term.”
Public funding to maintain a dismal status quo and send profits overseas is no answer. We can, and must, create a really good highway bus network to cut climate pollution, prevent deaths and injuries, and improve the economic and social health of British Columbia communities.
Greyhound’s dedicated front-line staff would love to help create a great highway bus network, but United Kingdom-based FirstGroup is apparently not interested.
A public bus service, employing existing Greyhound workers and hiring many more, is the better way forward.
Joanne Banks
Bruce Bidgood
Eric Doherty
Council of Canadians members