Greyhound Coach

While I was in Barrie I noticed that Greyhound pulled into the terminal. Investigation of the website shows that trips to and from Barrie can be as short as 90 minutes – a saving of an hour each way.

But at what price?

A quick tour of the web site suggested a return ticket for $16, only $3 more than a senior’s ticket on the GO bus, but a saving of two hours.

It’s not really true that I have a saving of two hours; I have a saving of two hours (travel time) IF I leave Toronto at 8:30am and leave Barrie at 8:30pm.

If I leave and return at other times I could spend two hours on the trip.

I telephoned the help number 1-877-463-6446 and had sufficient skills to escape the voice-simulated assistant and got through to a human who told me that there was a (garbled) fee of $3 per leg, so the all-up trip comes to $22. Plus, no doubt, some taxes (I forgot to ask).

The senior’s rate, she told me after some clickety-click at her end, is $12.80; add in the $6 and taxes and I appear to be well over the $13 demanded by Go Transit.

We’ll see.

I have a local advantage in that the Greyhound bus leaves from Bay and Dundas, just a ten-minute walk from my door.

August 4th through August 24th

Negotiating With Greyhound

Friday, August 07, 2015

... and so today I looked for the cost of a trip to Belleville by Greyhound, since I’m going via VIA Rail to Coburg, but perhaps by Greyhound to Belleville two weeks later ...?

This doesn’t look appealing. The price is right - $34 return – but leaving Toronto at 3:15 pm means a stay in a motel if I want a day to explore Belleville (Kingston, Brockville ...)

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