I have personally been on the Blackball Ferries operated in the USA and as couple in Europe. Some are pathetic but some are great. The great ones cost you about 15 to 20 times more than what BCF charges. I usually just travel on the local ferries for pleasure and not forced to used them regularly. My suggestion is if you have to live on the Island, get your company to pay for the commute or get yourself a boat. Why be forced to pay the ransom or eat the crap Whitespots food................
Let's talk fucked up ferries
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Enough stop with the bridge bs can’t be done in time or feasible because all you snivelers will be dead or too old to drive it by the time it ever gets finished,this is Canada not China,have we all forgotten about the fast cats how long did it take to replace them when those boats sailed and isn’t the “new” inland island hwy great, how many years did we have to suffer with the old island goat trail on a dark stormy night following a semi at Mach 40 mph while our great BC govt quarrelled about ferry and hwy bullshit ,the fix is actually have somebody run the ferry system that actually has to ride it like instead of some corporate bunghole or govt shit that we pay to fly in a private plane or chopper from his multi million dollar home to the island,David Hahn remember him betcha he’s not taking the ferries on our million dollar BC ferries pension plan he got or anyone seen Glen Clark or Moe Sihota or our beloved Chisty Clark on the ferries lately nope we are still paying them to fly like we will for Horgan for years to come
This islander happens to have not one but three flush toilets, enjoys really strong local Roasting Company Coffee along with my steak n eggs breakfast. Don't paint us all with the same brush.
My vote is no bridge to the island. Just change over the ferries to department of highways. I think back in the day, even the WAC Bennet government wanted to see the ferries as part of the highways, but Gaglardi could not speed on them. <grin>. I took the ferry from Sidney to Anacortes once ...Never again.. it is State operated and awful. Black Ball to Port Angeles is private I believe and is not much better. I might be wrong but I think I remember the same ferries (Black Ball) running from downtown Vancouver to Victoria and Nanaimo before BC Ferries. Black Ball workers were on strike cutting off the Island, BC Ferries was founded. It should have been part of the highways like the ferries crossing rivers, (Albion ferry) back then.
Canadian Pacfic ran the ferry from Van to Vic harbours- was mostly transports and commercial with left over space for cars if I remember correctly. Also a railway-car ferry?
I miss the Albion ferry a lot- just to walk on from the Langley side and head over to the Pub for a beer on a nice day or Bruce's Market for some chowder and seafood.
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"This islander happens to have not one but three flush toilets, enjoys really strong local Roasting Company Coffee along with my steak n eggs breakfast. Don't paint us all with the same brush."
Sometimes it's not about you.
Sometimes it's not about you.
You're half right. The BC Socre- umm, Liberals liked to take Crown corporations and make them quasi-private. I guess the idea is that the are ideologically against public utilities, but the voters would skin them alive if they actually privatized these companies and they went under or fell under non-BC control. So they are still Crown Corps, but more or less run themselves autonomously - except when the provincial government wants to raid their bank accounts and / or fuck their service, which they did to ICBC, BC Hydro, and the ferries too.
