Editor:
I read with interest the story about BC Ferries (“Ferry regulation causing a dogfight,” May 25). Not only do we get inadequate service on the Sunshine Coast, parking full due to a lot too small to accommodate passengers wishing to park and walk on, and bad customer service – but we are now threatened with being “banned from travelling” and written up (not sure what that threat is) if we stay in our vehicles for a specific reason and run afoul of the Transport Canada regulation. In other words, we will not be able to get off of the Coast because we will be banned from travelling due to some rule that has never been enforced in the past.
This has all the hallmarks of some bureaucrat who has had a promotion enforcing a rule to make a name for himself. So much for hiring the best and the brightest.
Where is the rule or legislation that a ferry worker can ban someone from travel on BC Ferries for sitting in their car? How does a person get to the doctor, airport or off of the Coast? Criminals get lesser penalties for much more serious offences.
Don Terrillon, Halfmoon Bay
