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While many of the workings of Fed Bus would remain, some aspects of the weekend bus service would change to comply with the May ruling from the transport board, according to the business plan submitted to the board in preparation for the licensing hearing next week. One of those changes is that Feds will not act as chartering group but a ticket agent.

The plan sent to the Ontario Highway Transport Board on 19 June 2006 outlines how Student Transportation of Canada would operate its proposed service.

The plan says that as ticket agent Feds will get a commission of $1.50 for every ticket sold. Ticket prices would be set at $10 for a one-way ticket and $19 for a round-trip ticket. It says that last fiscal year students bought approximately 30,320 tickets.

Based on a complaint from Greyhound the transport board held a hearing and later ruled that STC was not licensed to provide the Fed Bus service. STC is now applying for a licence to provide Fed Bus service. The application will be considered at a hearing in Kitchener next week on 24 and 25 July.

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