Almost a year and a half after the Saskatchewan Transport Company (STC) shut its door to the province Greyhound Canada will be doing the same.

The announcement was made on Monday that the busing service would be stopping all of their western Canadian services as of October 31, 2018, due to a large decrease in ridership.

Peter Hamel, Greyhound's regional vice-president for western Canada, said Saskatchewan accounts for a large amount of their ridership loss.

"This is strictly predicated on a decline in ridership that we've seen since 2010," he said is the reason they are discontinuing all but one route in western Canada. "In the four [provinces] that it's impacting here it's almost a 41-per-cent [drop] since 2010 and in Saskatchewan specifically it's one of the hardest [provinces] hit that we've seen a decline of 55 per cent in passenger ridership since the 2010 date."

The provinces ridership slipped even more once the STC was scrapped by the Brad Wall government in late May of last year according to Hamel.

"What happens here is we primarily operated on the Trans-Canada and Yellowhead [highways], we did not do any other regional areas in there," he explained. "In fact, the opposite was in effect that the feed and flow from the regional locations that were operated STC certainly impacted our ridership, even further along the Yellowhead and Trans-Canada."

Four-hundred and fifteen people in total will be without jobs on October 31 including one person from the Swift Current bus station.

"To increase ridership we had gone to capacity management, we have gotten technology in booking in advance, we did have a refurb on some of our buses," Hamel said. "What we tried to do was align the business, we tried to turn this thing around to be profitable, unfortunately, it just became no longer sustainable."

Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh sent a letter earlier this week to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking him to take "immediate action" and stop the cancellation of bus routes.

"I'm certainly seeing the articles and I'm certainly seeing the conversations and again I can't comment to what the federal government might do moving forward," Hamel said.

He also added that two of the four provinces (B.C. and Manitoba) have already said they won't be providing any assistance to the Greyhound service.