Greyhound and the Highway of Tears: a timeline of the company's decision to leave northern B.C.

The B.C. Passenger Transportation Board has given Greyhound Canada permission to stop serving northern British Columbia andVancouver Island,as well as certain routes in southern B.C. and its final remaining routes in Yukon.

• Greyhound is leaving northern British Columbia: Here's what you need to know

The company initially made the application on Aug. 10, 2017, prompting widespread discussion about safe, affordable transportation options in northern B.C., an area that includes Highway 16, dubbed theHighway of Tears because manywomen have vanished from the roadway that links Prince George to Prince Rupert, B.C.

The company blamed declining ridership, predicated in part by the addition of B.C. Transit routes between some communities in northwest B.C.

Here is a timeline of those developments:

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