Greyhound Canada

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Greyhound Canada»Greyhound Canada: Company (registered as Greyhound Canada Transportation Corp.) is the prominent operator of inter-city coach services in Canada. Based in Calgary, it is a subsidiary of Britain’s FirstGroup plc, linked with Dallas-based Greyhound Lines (also known as Greyhound USA).

History

In 1929, Greyhound Canada was founded as Canadian Greyhound Coaches, Limited, operating in Alberta. It merged with Greyhound USA in 1935 and split after Greyhound Canada was sold in 1987. It was not until Laidlaw's purchase of the Canadian operations in 1987 and U.S. operations in 1999 did the two operations link up again. Toronto area routes and some buses were acquired from Gray Coach in 1991. In 1998, Greyhound purchased Quebec-based Voyageur Colonial Bus Lines, and, shortly afterward, bought Central Ontario's Penetang-Midland Coach Lines, thus gaining a foothold in the South-Central Ontario region.

Routes

Regular service

Greyhound Canada's scheduled bus service operates in eight of Canada's provinces and territories (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and Yukon).

Connections to US destinations are available, primarily through Greyhound USA, although there is direct service to New York City, Seattle, Detroit and other cities in states bordering Canada via Greyhound Canada.

For travel into areas not served by Greyhound, passengers may need to transfer onto other bus lines which have inter-line agreements with Greyhound:

Pacific Coach Lines
Orléans Express
Acadiɐn Lines
Adirondack Trailways
Vancouver Island Coach Lines
Grey Goose Bus Lines (a Greyhound subsidiary)
Saskatchewan Transportation Company
Yellow Cab (Edmonton)
Gray Line Banff
Frontier Coach Lines (Yellowknife, Fort Simpson and Fort Smith, NWT)

QuickLink

In Southern Ontario, Greyhound operates a commuter service known as 'QuickLink Commuter Service'»QuickLink Commuter Service. A list of cities served by this service:

NeOn

.]] NeOn, a discount service based on the same model used for BoltBus in the United States, and competing with Megabus, is a service operated by Greyhound Canada in cooperation with Trailways of New York and Greyhound Lines between the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan and the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto.»Greyhound.com neon

Fleet

Greyhound operates 480 buses, but it has an extended fleet through connecting operators:

Greyhound Canada's fleet:

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" style="border-collapse: collapse;" |+Product list and details |----- bgcolor=#006699 | Make/Model | Description | Fleet size | Year acquired | Year retired | Notes |- | Motor Coach Industries D4505 | suburban coach | 30 | 2006 | N/A | |- | Motor Coach Industries G4500 | suburban coach | 65 | 2002 | N/A | |- | Motor Coach Industries D4500 | suburban coach | N/A | N/A | N/A | |- | Motor Coach Industries 102EL3 | suburban coach | N/A | N/A | N/A | |- | Motor Coach Industries 96A3 | suburban coach | N/A | N/A | N/A | |- | Motor Coach Industries 102A3 | suburban coach | N/A | N/A | N/A | |- | Motor Coach Industries 102C3 | suburban coach | 76 | 1989 | N/A | |- | Motor Coach Industries 102D3 | suburban coach | 20 | 1995 | N/A | |- | Motor Coach Industries 102DL3 | suburban coach | 189 | 1995 | N/A | |- | Prevost Car Le Mirage XLII | suburban coach | 3 | N/A | N/A | |- | Motor Coach Industries 9 | suburban coach | 44 | 1978 | N/A | |- | Motor Coach Industries-9Sp | suburban coach | N/A | N/A | N/A | |- | Prevost Car H3-45 | suburban coach | 28 | 1995 | N/A | |- | Dupon Trolley Industries Trolley bus | tour bus | N/A | N/A | N/A | |- | Daimler Double decker | tour bus | N/A | N/A | N/A | |- | Leyland Motors Ltd double decker | tour bus | N/A | N/A | N/A | |- | International 3400 | suburban coach | N/A | N/A | N/A | |}

Greyhound Canada also offers courier services via Greyhound Courier Express.

,denotes wheelchair accessible vehicles

Historic

MCI MC-7 suburban coach
Twin Coach 38S transit bus
MCI Courier 100, 100A, 100B, 100C suburban coach
MCI Courier 200, 200A, 200B suburban coach
MCI Courier 95, 95D, 96, 97 suburban coach
MCI Courier 85A, 85-X suburban coach
Western Flyer Coach P-41R "Canuck" rear engine intercity coach
MCI MC-1 suburban coach
MCI MCX-1 suburban coach
MCI MC-2 suburban coach
MCI MC-3 suburban coach
MCI MCX-4 suburban coach
MCI MC-4 suburban coach
MCI MCC-5 suburban coach
MCI MC-5A suburban coach
MCI MC-6 suburban coach
MCI MC-8 suburban coach
MCI MC-5B suburban coach
MCI MCX-5 suburban coach
MCI MC-9 suburban coach
MCI 96A3 suburban coach
MCI 102DL3 suburban coach
Yellow Coach 743 intercity suburban coach
GMC PD-3302 rear engine parlour coach
CC&FBrill IC-37 intercity coach
GMC TDH-4506 "Old Look"
GMC TDH-4509 "Old Look"

Transmissions
From the 1985 model year 96A3 to the 1995 model year D4000 and D4500 (102D(L)3), as well as the first Prevost H3-45 coaches, Greyhound Canada specified manual transmissions in all their intercity coaches. At first, five speed Eaton Fuller transmissions were equipped in all 96A3 and 102A3 coaches. Beginning with the 1989 model year 102C3SS coaches, Greyhound Canada specified seven speed manual transmissions.
Allison B500 and B500Rs have been used on coaches equipped with Automatic transmissions until the D4505s which use the ZF-AStronic (automatic standard) transmission.

Unions

Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1374 represents unionized Greyhound employees in Western Canada and Northern Ontario and is based in Calgary.
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1415 represents unionized Greyhound employees in Ontario and is based in Toronto.

Notable incidents and accidents

December 232000: An attempted hijacking of a Greyhound Canada bus near Thunder Bay, Ontario leaves one woman dead and 31 others injured.»Greyhound slaying sparks debate over bus security

July 302008: Tim McLean, a passenger on an Edmonton to Winnipeg schedule, was beheaded by another passenger near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. The attacker was arrested at the scene and charged with second-degree murder.»40-year-old suspect said to have boarded in Edmonton held in gruesome Manitoba bus killing[http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080731/Manitoba_victim_080801/20080801?hub=BritishColumbiaHome Friends identify bus victim; RCMP name suspect]»http://winnipegsun.com/News/Manitoba/2008/08/01/6328131.html»http://winnipegsun.com/News/Manitoba/2008/08/01/6329366.html»http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-vince-weiguang-li-080801-ht,0,2765341.story Vince Weiguang LiGreyhound Canada withdrew ads with the slogan There's a reason you've never heard of "bus rage" following the event, citing that the campaign was "no longer appropriate".»Greyhound suspect whispers 'please kill me'
September 21 2008: A young man was attacked by another passenger on a Greyhound Canada schedule in northwestern Ontario. Police arrested a 28-year-old man near the town of White River, about 300 kilometres north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., shortly after the bus driver let him get off at the side of the highway.»http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/080921/topstories/toronto_greyhound_stabbing

References

External links

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