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Transport committee  I will answer that question. It depends on how many buses are in your fleet and and how many buses pass the different provinces. It changes monthly. It's up to $50,000 or up to $100,000 in cost.

November 23rd, 2022Committee meeting

Firat Uray

Transport committee  In 2017, we started with 15 passenger vans in Saskatchewan. Once Greyhound left western Canada, we started adding buses on our services. Our success comes from the connections. We do connect the five provinces together. Partially, we are working with Ontario Northland. Passenge

November 23rd, 2022Committee meeting

Firat Uray

Transport committee  Yes. We tried to connect with the Saskatchewan government. We haven't had any success with them. That includes Manitoba and Alberta. They haven't had any connection, even, with us. British Columbia has had some funding with us and they've worked with us. Other than British Colum

November 23rd, 2022Committee meeting

Firat Uray

Transport committee  No, we didn't. I think there were some rules saying our company wasn't fit for it.

November 23rd, 2022Committee meeting

Firat Uray

Transport committee  Yes. We agree. We have to pass it on in the ticket. Otherwise, we simply cannot survive in the business.

November 23rd, 2022Committee meeting

Firat Uray

Transport committee  No, we haven't. COVID has had another role in that.

November 23rd, 2022Committee meeting

Firat Uray

Transport committee  Exactly, if that is possible in Canada so that we can provide more and wider services in rural areas, because right now, if you don't mind, we are competing with other companies for all of those big-city profitable routes. If we are competing, it is going to be hard for us to exp

November 23rd, 2022Committee meeting

Firat Uray

Transport committee  It's definitely not going to happen that we can cover as much as Greyhound used to cover. As I said, currently we are providing these services to close to 60 cities. There are still some routes that are not making money that we are providing for from the other routes that are mak

November 23rd, 2022Committee meeting

Firat Uray

Transport committee  Location is the biggest problem for us, and it's an expensive overhead for us. The one thing the federal government or provincial governments can help us with is to create a safe location for passengers and also for parcels.

November 23rd, 2022Committee meeting

Firat Uray

Transport committee  I think right now in the five provinces—Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario—we can say we are covering 50% of what Greyhound had.

November 23rd, 2022Committee meeting

Firat Uray

Transport committee  I'd say 50%. It's mostly big cities that we are trying to cover. As a private company, we need the funding to operate these routes. We would love to go to the rural areas, but we cannot do that ourselves. We will need help.

November 23rd, 2022Committee meeting

Firat Uray

Transport committee  I would like to introduce Omer Kanca, our company's general manager. He is going to introduce Rider Express to you guys. I appreciate you guys calling us here.

November 23rd, 2022Committee meeting

Firat Uray