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REGINA — A Regina-based limousine company is withdrawing its application to run a passenger bus service in Saskatchewan because of opposition to the proposal.

Carpe Diem limo service had announced in April it wanted to run all of the STC routes and work in conjunction with other companies.

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But upon hearing that members of the group Save Our STC and lawyers for the Amalgamated Transit Union intended to object at a Highway Traffic Board hearing on Monday, the company decided to pull out.

Carpe Diem general manager Mitch Blyth told radio station CJME “it is a pretty sad situation.”

He said Carpe Diem had planned to work in conjunction with several other companies that would act as a feeder system to ensure many, if not all, STC routes were covered.

But Blyth said those partner companies have backed off “for various reasons,” alleging one of them had received a threat.

Blyth suggested his opponents have “bottomless” pockets, “so who wants to fight the good fight against this sort of thing?”

The province announced in its most recent budget that STC was losing money and would be shut down because it would cost $85 million over the next five years to sustain it.