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Another Greyhound delay; passenger claims travellers left outside
BANFF/CKNW (AM980)
CKNW News Staff | Email news tips to nwnews@cknw.com
12/28/2012

A frustrated Greyhound passenger who was stranded in Kamloops when buses didn't show up during the pre-Christmas rush says it's happening again--this time in Banff.

Carson Loveday says the temperature was -7 Thursday evening, and other passengers told stranded travellers buses were running more than four hours late.

"The office is completely closed, there's about 15-20 passengers waiting outside.  They're all stranded.  It's really cold outside.  There's no staff, nobody knows what's going on and no bathrooms as well."

Loveday says he's going to take a flight out Friday instead, but won't be taking a Greyhound bus anytime soon.

Spokesperson for Greyhound, Maureen Richmond, says a bus that was supposed to leave Banff was delayed by about two hours.

It was supposed to leave at 8:45pm.

"There was a road closure at Roger's Pass I believe, which then prohibited travel for a couple of hours."

Richmond was asked whether it is normal for passengers to be left outside without bathroom facilities.

"Well it depends on what type of stop it is.  Sometimes we work out of terminal locations which are open twenty-four hours, others have more limited service.  In other cases, it's just simply a bus stop or perhaps we're operating out of a third party agency like a gas station or similar, so there's not a specific or routine location that we might operate out of, each one is very different."


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  1. opq posted on 12/28/2012 04:05 AM
    Greyhound has never offered good service, yet people keep going back. Maybe if people started boycotting companies that provide bad service, we'd see some change
    1. speakup posted on 12/28/2012 10:25 AM
      @opq sure - what's the OTHER option?
      is there a Greenhound?
    2. Ken280 posted on 12/28/2012 12:49 PM
      @opq It is hard to get this bus service anywhere in BC! They stop anyone trying to take people up to whistler,anywhere grey hound can make money other companies can't compete with them,they just have this monopoly but it is operated by right wingers, so that is ok?Just try and get a bus from Lillooet to Pemberton or from Revelstoke to Nakusp or further south on highway 23! Why not let a smaller company try, with smaller vehicles,greyhound will make a big fuss! Some of the Cab companies should be given the same status as bus carriers! The buses are going the way of the passenger Train.Now more train service in the rural areas would be of great help have small bud cars to take people around BC, at least this would have been another option.
  2. Vancouver Sucks posted on 12/28/2012 03:52 PM
    Greyhound is the worst most pathetic service I have ever used. The entire organization should be sent to Japan to see what and how a bus service should be run! There needs to be a BC owned and operated service, and I demand it start soon! There is prime opportunity for someone here. Greyhound should be kicked out of Canada.
  3. mikes_0736 [deleted] posted on 12/29/2012 03:14 PM
    Greyhound is second to none and so economical as well so give it up with complaining! Would you rather be stuck in a snow bank ?
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