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Tag: BC Ferries
Food for thought
There are a couple of good recent articles that you should really read. First, Dave Neads has written an excellent analyis on the Bridge-Free Salish Sea website. “The Big Picture” looks at the history of the BC Ferries management model, how it’s working out, and implications for the future, particularly with regard to bridges. And secondly, another demonstration that implementing ferry cuts without…
Lost in translation?
The Gabriola FAC helpfully collected a number of quotes from Transportation Minister Todd Stone’s media conference about that report on proposed economic efficiencies for BC Ferries. It’s astonishing how ambiguous what he said actually is; it’s almost like he was being purposefully vague. You can interpret these statements in so many ways! So we couldn’t resist annotating with our own…
Connecting the dots
Well, I’ve been reading through that new BC Ferries report—the one that proposes ways for BCF to increase efficiencies and reduce costs. There are four proposed strategies: Replace existing ferries with 3 new ones and convert Spirit Class ferries to LNG for savings in fuel costs (in process already) Business transformation strategies enabled by technology Make changes to the Major…
CBC interview with Claire Trevena about BC Ferries
Go here to listen. Gregor Craigie interviews NDP Ferries critic Claire Trevena about the floated Horseshoe Bay<>Nanaimo route. Claire points out that this route is Highway 1, and such a change is effectively decommissioning a large portion of it. By a semi-private body.
BC Ferries considers changes to service
From a CBC News article: “A report by BC Ferries for efficiencies has raised questions about running ferry service between Horseshoe Bay and Nanaimo, suggesting that the route may become a passenger-only service or be re-routed entirely through Tsawwassen.” We mentioned in our Why No Bridge section that it was likely that the provincial government was considering this—evidently that consideration is serious. We will…