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Originally Posted by Urban_Sky
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Thanks for that - looks like they didn’t have very many routes left:
- Toronto-Sudbury
- Ottawa-Sudbury
- Kingston-Ottawa
- Ottawa-Montreal
- Toronto-Peterborough-Ottawa
- Toronto-Belleville-Ottawa
- Toronto-Kitchener
- Toronto-Niagara-Buffalo (continuing to New York)
- Toronto-London-Detroit (continuing to Chicago)
- Toronto-Kitchener-London
- Toronto-Hamilton-London
- Toronto-Barrie-Owen Sound
- Peterborough-Pembroke
The first two of those routes are also served by Ontario Northland, and the routes from Toronto to several locations are served by GO. VIA also serves some of these areas.
I could see GO extending some services to replace various Greyhound services to Toronto; I would also not be surprised to see Megabus expand its services to Ottawa from Montreal, Kingston and Toronto. Greyhound USA could still provide some level of service across the border from Buffalo and Detroit; up until the pandemic they did just that from Vancouver to Seattle.
The Peterborough-Pembroke route services quite a few communities such as Bancroft and Barry’s Bay, but I can’t see it being profitable for a private operator. That could be a good addition for Ontario Northland, which already services Pembroke from Ottawa and North Bay.
There are numerous other routes that were previously served by private operators but have been abandoned over the years. For example there was a bus from London to Owen Sound at one time with stops throughout Midwestern Ontario operated by the now-defunct Aboutown Transportation (which also was a taxi company in London).