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On July 1, for the first time in a century, inter-city bus travel in Ontario will be deregulated and service options thrown wide open.
But, where rubber meets the road, nobody seems sure what this means for the travelling public.
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The Ford government is dissolving the Ontario Highway Transport Board, a little-known arms-length organization that, for decades, controlled the entry of private companies into the inter-city bus market.
For better or worse, the old regulatory framework was the reason giants like Greyhound were able to dominate the more popular routes and could abandon less profitable ones that were still vital to smaller communities. (The board gave a licence holder the right to oppose new players trying to take up service slack.)