TNRD chair on Greyhound downsizing: ‘Disappointed but not surprised’
CACHE CREEK — Greyhound Canada’s decision to halt its operations in Western Canada come October 31 this year due to declining ridership came as no surprise to Cache Creek Mayor and Thompson-Nicola Regional District Chair John Ranta.
“I wasn’t particularly surprised. I think the service that Greyhound is providing has been eroding over the years, at least in part because of competition from either local government, small bus services or from managerial incompetence,” he told CFJC Today.
A retired Greyhound bus driver of 35 years himself, he doesn’t buy the union’s argument that things went south for the company once it relocated to the United States.