John DiNino, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Canada, which represents Greyhound Canada drivers, is calling on the federal government to invest a projected $250,000 or more per route to maintain bus service in Western Canada.
DiNino is also asking for a meeting with Ottawa to discuss how that spending should work, and whether it would be directed to Greyhound itself or to a new transit system.
The union has been pushing for subsidies since Greyhound Canada announced in July its intentions to end passenger and freight bus service in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and cancel all but one route in B.C. — a U.S.-run service between Vancouver and Seattle.
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