MGSC05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cherry Picking, Unfair Competition, Regional Integration
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Economic deregulation of intercity bus industry in ontario. Introduction: focused on 3 questions surrounding deregulation, possible impact on small rural and northern communities. 2. consequences for public transit in urban areas where there is significant commuter travel between municipalities. 3. implications if neighbouring provinces (quebec) do not simultaneously deregulate. Allowing smaller companies to freely operate increase the use of sort vehicles. More profitable with smaller load: deregulation would lead to increasing services to their communities, mayor noted the rail and air service. Local skepticism: rural communities have resources to make good any loss of service themselves through public transit, contracting out, or not-for-profit providers, pick up passengers at nodal centers. Interprovincial busing in both jurisdictions will no longer be regulated: deregulation in on accompanied by continued regulation in quebec pose 2 problems: 1. quebec operators would freely be able to enter the on market while on operators would be unable to freely reciprocate.
