Editor:
Re: “BC Ferries cancels summer trial,” May 7.
I was interested in BC Ferries CEO Mark Collins’ comment that “feedback from the community was too ‘divisive’ to proceed.” I assume the trial was conceived and planned in good faith, but I wish Mr. Collins had better defined the community division to which he referred. I can help: as far as I can see, on the one side of the divide were BC Ferries management, our elected leaders, some businesses, and tourists. On the other side of the divide, as far as I can tell, was everyone else, including the residents of the Sunshine Coast. No one I talked to (or heard from) that lives on the Coast favoured the plan. It seemed, in a word, a plan conceived to assist tourists/visitors and, perhaps in a collateral (or direct) way, some businesses.
A little more consultation might have helped.
Doug Baker, Hopkins Landing
