2024 BC Election

[Colin Parkinson]

One of the bigger Elephants in the room...

Les Leyne: Election campaigns may sail past B.C. Ferries' lurking problem

Much of the good news stems from one event: the half-billion dollar, one-time bail-out the government granted the corporation last year.

www.timescolonist.com

Time to treat as part of the highway system it is, rather than a pretend private company. Stop advertising, we all know you need to take a ferry on and off the island. Reduce the top level pay and get some boring good performers there that just want to run a sound and regular ship.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Is it any more unfair than free use of highways, bridges and tunnels?

Everyone uses highways, bridges, and tunnels. Not everyone uses ferries.

The customarily insolvent routes are the smaller ones, serving places in which some of the locals complain about people coming to their little island paradises. Some BC taxpayers, particularly in the interior, are disinterested in subsidizing ferry transportation for people who essentially want others to f*ck off.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Everyone uses highways, bridges, and tunnels. Not everyone uses ferries.

The customarily insolvent routes are the smaller ones, serving places in which some of the locals complain about people coming to their little island paradises. Some BC taxpayers, particularly in the interior, are disinterested in subsidizing ferry transportation for people who essentially want others to f*ck off.

All the ferries in the Interior of BC are free, about a dozen or so that cross various lakes etc, and far fewer people use them than the coastal ferries.

Thus presenting the dichotomy