Editor:
It’s Monday night and I am coming home at 8 p.m. on a ferry that is over an hour late. And this morning I arrived at the Langdale terminal over an hour early to make sure I would make my three-hour meeting in Vancouver, and even that was massively late. To add insult to injury, the Wi-Fi was either as slow as molasses or absent completely so I couldn’t even use my wait time productively.
So that’s 13 hours of travel, etc., for a three-hour meeting. This is what it’s like for most of the year, and still the ferry corporation fat cats collect their massive salaries and the government milks the revenue for all it’s worth.
So here’s a thought – why don’t we ask Seaspan to run a car ferry? They take stuff everywhere already and I don’t care about a restaurant, I just want me and my vehicle in Vancouver quickly so I can make lots of money, then come back and spend it in all the shops on the Coast that really need help to survive.
Alternatively, why don’t our elected officials actually do something instead of talking about doing something? I want a fixed link, a bridge or a road to Squamish, I don’t care which. I want our First Nations to build it because they seem to be the only ones who can, and I want them to become rich off the tolls even at half the ferry fare. This is a real opportunity for the Coast, and I’ll help put the project together, but I need some like-minded souls to help. Please feel free to contact me at [email protected]. And if you don’t want to be part of the solution, don’t call me – I have enough to do without wasting more time on the eternal naysayers.
Chester Machniewski P.Eng., Gibsons
