High Cost of Travel on BC Ferries

[talloola]

That's just the thing though. It's not "our island". Anyone who wants to live here can live here. I don't have a problem paying a "toll" if you will but the price we pay to live here and to leave here is ridiculous. Thank goodness our airport is expanding because it probably won't be that much more expensive to just take a flight and be on the mainland in 15 min. rather than 2 hours or 1.5 depending on the point of Departure. It's even worse for you Talloola because you have to drive to my city before you even get to the ferry. Taxslave and Kreskin as well. At least Juan and my self just have a ferry terminal to go to. I heard a man say oneday that he wondered why so many people on this Island owned travel trailers but never left the Island. Obviously he never paid to take a truck and a trailer to the mainland. For those who don't know - the cost is by the length of the vehicle when you are pulling a trailer or something similar like driving a semi.

That is a personal feeling of many islanders, 'our island', it is special, and I
don't have any problem getting to and from the ferry, I hardly ever take it, I
live here, do almost everything here, I have no need to go back and forth, so
I don't even think about it.
If a bridge was built, the trucks would be charged a high toll to cross as well.
Anyway I don't have to worry about it, by the time anyone decides to build a
bridge, I will be long gone, I plan to be around here for another 30 years, and
I'm sure the ferries will still be crossing then.
The expression 'our island' isn't a feeling of ownership, it is a feeling of love
for the island, we moved here 30 years ago from the mainland, where we both were
born and raised, and the move to the island was the best decision we have ever
made, and if there had been a bridge at that time, I'm sure we would have thought
otherwise, probably would have gone north to some smaller city, because the island
would not have had the interest for us, because it probably would have been much
more populated and crowded, just like the mainland, because a bridge will do that.
There used to be lots of work on the island for loggers and mill workers, but the
government brought that to an end by allowing raw logs to be sold south to the
u.s., gradually brought the industry to it's knees, now it is almost gone, there
was no thought for any of the workers here on the island, or anywhere else in b.c.

 

[Beekeeper]

There is the point JLM, you watch the CBC, I dont yet I pay for it!

 

[JLM]

There is the point JLM, you watch the CBC, I dont yet I pay for it!

And I don't? And you can't?

 

[Beekeeper]

You can use the ferries if you want. Maybe a trip to the Island might enlighten you.

 

[JLM]

You can use the ferries if you want. Maybe a trip to the Island might enlighten you.

I doubt it, I lived on Vancouver Island for about 45 years of my life, in just about every major community from Victoria to Sayward, not to mention camps on the west coast and have probably ridden the ferries about 50 times. So now that you know this tell me what it is that I need enlightening about.

 

[countryboy]

I doubt it, I lived on Vancouver Island for about 45 years of my life, in just about every major community from Victoria to Sayward, not to mention camps on the west coast and have probably ridden the ferries about 50 times. So now that you know this tell me what it is that I need enlightening about.

...just goes to show that assumptions are a dangerous thing.

 

[JLM]

...just goes to show that assumptions are a dangerous thing.

not to mention the fact they can p*ss people off................:lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

[countryboy]

not to mention the fact they can p*ss people off................:lol::lol::lol::lol:

...which seems to occur with some frequency! :smile::-smile:
Phrasing an assumption in the form of a question helps to prevent "Foot in Mouth disease!"

 

[JLM]

...which seems to occur with some frequency! :smile::-smile:
Phrasing an assumption in the form of a question helps to prevent "Foot in Mouth disease!"

Questions are great- if you don't get an answer, you've won the argument. :smile::smile:

 

[#juan]

I use the ferries to go to the mainland to visit our children. Usually about twice a month. When I drive off the ferry at Horseshoe Bay and head up the Upper Levels, it doesn't take long to remember why I live on Vancouver Island. Usually it's some moron who gives me the finger because he wants me to go faster than the traffic I'm following. I guess the guy thinks if I'm not tailgating, I'm not trying hard enough. I now remember living in Vancouver when I used to arrive at my office already fed up before I'd done a lick of work. On the island we also have our share of dolts but nowhere near the lower mainland numbers.

 

[Beekeeper]

Sorry! But my point was that you CAN use them whether you do or not is your business. Just as I CAN listen to the CBC tho I choose not to.

 

[Francis2004]

I use the ferries to go to the mainland to visit our children. Usually about twice a month. When I drive off the ferry at Horseshoe Bay and head up the Upper Levels, it doesn't take long to remember why I live on Vancouver Island. Usually it's some moron who gives me the finger because he wants me to go faster than the traffic I'm following. I guess the guy thinks if I'm not tailgating, I'm not trying hard enough. I now remember living in Vancouver when I used to arrive at my office already fed up before I'd done a lick of work. On the island we also have our share of dolts but nowhere near the lower mainland numbers.

When I am working Juan, I visit Vancouver Island on a regular basis.. I got used to the finger often from Islanders before I got a GPS to locate new sites easier.. I guess the area you are in is not near the industrial areas of Victoria as Idiots are not just mainland specific..

But personally I think major Highways bring out the worst in people..

 

[talloola]

My husband still talks about the major traffic gridlocks/jams he
was in going to and from work, and I also, travelling throughout
the day, going here and there, when we lived on the mainland.

Now we whine about our 'tiny' little traffic jams we have here
in courtenay, then laugh about it.

It would be sad to see that sort of thing come to the island, there
is plenty of room on the mainland for industry and growth, and
there is allready too much growth here, and that includes us, coming here in l980, and the change in this valley is unbelievable
since then, it is nothing like it was then, but the one 'big'
industry we had, is now gone, the sawmill.

The island is a high tourism area, and there is a reason for that, and travelling those ferries is one of them,
we can't destroy those reasons, and tourism is big business too,
but at least they go home when they are finished their vacation,
then our winter is fairly quiet, and the town a little emptier.

If this island were turned into an extension of the mainland with
all of the industry and pollution, it would be a shame.

 

[JLM]

When I am working Juan, I visit Vancouver Island on a regular basis.. I got used to the finger often from Islanders before I got a GPS to locate new sites easier.. I guess the area you are in is not near the industrial areas of Victoria as Idiots are not just mainland specific..

But personally I think major Highways bring out the worst in people..

Nope, a$$holes are everywhere..................:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

[Francis2004]

Nope, a$$holes are everywhere..................:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

To some extent I think that was the point I was making JLM.. :roll:

They are just worse in some areas.. Of course if you want to argue what area is worse then I guess we can get into a spitting match.. As a salesman I guess I visit a lot more areas..