GUELPH — Starting next month, commuters who take the Greyhound bus between Kitchener and Guelph will have fewer options.

Lanesha Gipson, a spokesperson with the company, was able to confirm that the daily service at 1:30 p.m. from Kitchener to Guelph will be one of the routes to be eliminated.

The 6:30 p.m. route that leaves from Kitchener's Charles Street station and runs Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday will be rescheduled to leave 30 minutes later, at 7 p.m. as of Dec. 10.

Greyhound currently operates 446 schedules between Kitchener and Guelph five days per week, Gipson wrote in an email on Monday. "Effective Dec. 10, we will operate 378 schedules seven days per week, which is a 15 per cent reduction in frequency, but will run more days per week," she wrote, adding she was unable to provide a list of all the schedules that will be eliminated.

"We are modifying several schedules along that route — some schedules will change to an earlier time, some later, while some will be eliminated. The schedules that will be eliminated have very low customer volume."

These changes were expected to be revealed Tuesday evening in Guelph.

Barbara Sim lives in Guelph's north end and commutes to Kitchener daily. She takes the 7:30 bus each morning throughout the week and has been relying on the 4:45 and the 6:30 buses to bring her home.

She said she was told about the route changes and the upcoming commuter meeting by a dispatcher.

"One of the reasons I accepted the job in Kitchener is because of the bus schedule," Sim said, adding her employer lets her leave a little early to catch the 4:45 p.m. twice a week, so long as she stays a bit later twice a week to make up for it.

She said ideally, there would be a bus getting in to Kitchener before 8 a.m. and leaving to go back to Guelph at 5:30. Catching a 7 p.m. bus would be better than waiting until the next one at 9:15 p.m. but it still leaves her working long days, she said.

Her other option would be taking a GO bus along the 401 and then transferring in Aberfoyle, but this would take much longer.

Greyhound's annual commuter meeting will be held in Kitchener at the Crowne Plaza Hotel at 7 p.m. on Wednesday.