Safe, reliable and affordable’: New bus service aims to make notorious Highway of Tears less dangerous – CBC

Subsidized transit service connects Prince George with Smithers, B.C.; officials hope it’ll reduce hitchhiking

Sep 21, 2017

As a B.C. Transit bus swings open its doors in front of the Pine Centre Mall in Prince George, a small crowd of people carrying duffel bags and backpacks file on.

They each stuff $5 into the fare box to take the three-hour ride from Prince George to Burns Lake, a community to the west along B.C.’s Highway 16, a 720-kilometre remote stretch of road that’s also known as the Highway of Tears.

“They should have put this bus up years ago before people started going missing,” said Roger Joseph, 61, who was seated by a window.

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