Island Bridge

[dittman]

no you cant do that then the prices go up and reflect what we pay on the mainland, no more excuses to visit victoria

 

[sirlickheralot]

Vaughn Palmer, a provincial political columnist for the Vancouver Sun wrote a piece today about transportaion projects in BC during the next 10 years.

Here is the tail end of Vaughn Palmer's column from the June 26th edition of the Vancouver Sun, page A3:

Boy I'd be interested to see the calculations for their forecasts. If option 2 costs 50% more than option 1, I wonder why they need to charge 444% more per car, it seems the reasonable profit margin must be pretty generous. I wonder if the forecast is based on current ferry ridership to and from the island. If prices were kept close to the costs of taking the ferry I would expect a dramatic increase in people traveling to and from the island since you eliminate the inconviences of the ferry and waiting in lineups. This in turn would bring the breakeven point down drastically.