Greyhound Canada

Greyhound Canada
Parent FirstGroup
Founded 1929
Headquarters 1111 International Blvd,
Burlington, Ontario
Service area Canada
Service type Intercity coach service
Alliance Greyhound Lines, USA
Adirondack Trailways
Destinations 1,200+
Stations 1,100+
Fleet 480
Website www.greyhound.ca

Greyhound Canada[1] (registered as Greyhound Canada Transportation ULC) is the prominent operator of inter-city coach services in Canada. Greyhound Canada is a subsidiary of British transport company FirstGroup, linked with Dallas-based Greyhound Lines (also known as Greyhound USA).

History

Pre-2009 logo for Greyhound Canada.

In 1929, Greyhound Canada was founded as Canadian Greyhound Coaches, Limited, operating first in BC and then Alberta.[2] 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, 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:

Greyhound Canada#1257 in QuickLink branding

In Southern Ontario, Greyhound operates a commuter service known as 'QuickLink Commuter Service'.[3] A list of cities served by this service:

NeOn

Greyhound Canada#1327 marked for NeOn service in New York City.

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 Toronto Coach Terminal.[4]

Stations

Fleet

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

Greyhound Canada's fleet:

Product list and details
 Make/Model   Description   Fleet size   Year acquired   Year retired   Notes 
Motor Coach Industries D4505 suburban coach 42 2006 N/A
Motor Coach Industries G4500 suburban coach 65 2002 N/A
Motor Coach Industries D4500 suburban coach N/A 2001-2002 N/A
Motor Coach Industries 102EL3 suburban coach N/A 2000 N/A
Motor Coach Industries 102C3 suburban coach 76 1991 N/A
Motor Coach Industries 102D3 suburban coach 20 1994-1996 N/A
Motor Coach Industries 102DL3 suburban coach 189 1994-2000 N/A
Prevost Car Le Mirage XLII suburban coach 3 2002 N/A
Prevost Car H3-45 suburban coach 28 1995 N/A
Prevost Car X3-45 suburban coach 17 2008 N/A

Greyhound Canada also offers courier services via Greyhound Courier Express.

denotes wheelchair accessible vehicles

Historic

Most buses are registered in Alberta and bear the province's license plates. In Ontario, Voyageur buses and some Greyhound buses have Ontario plates.

Older buses sport the old colours of the American parent, but the current scheme is a white base with large greyhound image on the front and sides with a large light grey wording Greyhound on the sides (now the old scheme for the rest of the Greyhound operations).

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

Notable incidents and accidents

Wikinews has related news: Man decapitated on Greyhound bus in Manitoba

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Greyhound Canada.

References

  1. ↑ "Greyhound.ca -". Greyhound.ca. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  2. ↑ Foran, Max (1982). Calgary, Canada's frontier metropolis : an illustrated history. Windsor Publications. p. 322. ISBN 0-89781-055-4.
  3. ↑ "Greyhound.ca -". Greyhound.ca. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "NeOn Bus website". Neonbus.com. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 Archived December 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ Archived August 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ↑ "Beheading suspect in court - CTV News". CTVNews. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
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  10. ↑ Archived August 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  11. ↑ "Bus suspect utters death wish - CTV News". CTVNews. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  12. ↑ Doucette, Chris (17 December 2010). "Bus driver charged in crash with streetcar". Toronto Sun. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
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