Posted Oct 6, 2014, 4:56 PM
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^ It's also because of the regulatory system we have in Ontario which bans intercity bus companies from competing with each other. The province creates each bus route and each bus company is awarded the exclusive right to operate that bus route by the province.
Toronto-Kingston-Montreal service is provided NOT by Greyhound, but rather by Coach Canada using their Megabus branding. If Ottawa-Toronto service went through Kingston it would overlap with Coach Canada's Toronto-Kingston service thus violating provincial law.
The purpose of this system is to ensure that unprofitable routes to rural areas remain. By giving bus companies a monopoly on profitable routes like Toronto-Kingston or Ottawa-Montreal, it allows the government to force them to operate money-losing rural routes.
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