BC Ferries top incomes nearly double
PublicAnimalNo9 @ Tue Dec 21, 2010 5:49 pm
ASLplease ASLplease:
In Calgary, Safeway will place one brand of cheese on sale.
They will place it out on a display where they normally dont put cheese, then they will put other cheese on both sides of it that arent on sale.
Hence, if you try to mix and match, you end up paying full price for some of the cheese.
If you complain, they will swear up and down that its not false advertizing.
When I think about PEI letting you into the province without charging a highway toll, then charging a toll when you leave, it just strikes me as wrong.
Nova Scotia has toll gates, too, but they charge you to enter the province not to leave it. A bit more honest and forthcoming if you ask me.
They will place it out on a display where they normally dont put cheese, then they will put other cheese on both sides of it that arent on sale.
Hence, if you try to mix and match, you end up paying full price for some of the cheese.
If you complain, they will swear up and down that its not false advertizing.
When I think about PEI letting you into the province without charging a highway toll, then charging a toll when you leave, it just strikes me as wrong.
Nova Scotia has toll gates, too, but they charge you to enter the province not to leave it. A bit more honest and forthcoming if you ask me.
It's to prevent the PE Islanders from leaving and not coming back
Hyack @ Tue Dec 21, 2010 6:09 pm
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
$1:
So freaking expensive, mind-as-well just invest in a canoe now.
I'd pay to see you canoe through Active Pass. Hell, I'd pay to see that myself....
Hyack @ Tue Dec 21, 2010 6:29 pm
B.C. Ferries fares up April 1, 2010
$1:
BC Ferry fares are going up April 1 by an extra $1.75 on the major routes between Vancouver Island and the mainland and by $3.30 on the roundtrip between Horseshoe Bay and the Sunshine Coast.
The cost for a car and driver one-way from the mainland to either Victoria or Nanaimo will rise to $46.75, while foot passengers will pay $14, a hike of 50 cents.
People travelling from Horseshoe Bay to Langdale will pay a total of $43.20 for a car and driver, while the cost to foot passengers will rise by $1 to $12.85.
Increases for the Gulf Islands and other routes rise from by about $1 to $3.
No fare increases were to be applied to the corporation's northern routes.
The BC Ferries statement Tuesday announcing the increases gave no specific reason for the rises and referred to them only as an "annual fare adjustment."
The corporation also announced new two-per-cent fuel rebates effective April 1, but did not specify if the new fares it quoted included those rebates.
Fares rose in April 2009 by 3.74 percent on the three major routes between Vancouver Island and the mainland and by 7.25 per cent on other routes. BC Ferries attributed the need for those increases on, "the rising cost of operating and capital expenditures."
The cost for a car and driver one-way from the mainland to either Victoria or Nanaimo will rise to $46.75, while foot passengers will pay $14, a hike of 50 cents.
People travelling from Horseshoe Bay to Langdale will pay a total of $43.20 for a car and driver, while the cost to foot passengers will rise by $1 to $12.85.
Increases for the Gulf Islands and other routes rise from by about $1 to $3.
No fare increases were to be applied to the corporation's northern routes.
The BC Ferries statement Tuesday announcing the increases gave no specific reason for the rises and referred to them only as an "annual fare adjustment."
The corporation also announced new two-per-cent fuel rebates effective April 1, but did not specify if the new fares it quoted included those rebates.
Fares rose in April 2009 by 3.74 percent on the three major routes between Vancouver Island and the mainland and by 7.25 per cent on other routes. BC Ferries attributed the need for those increases on, "the rising cost of operating and capital expenditures."
"No specific reason for the rises" ....what a crock of horse shit, the only reason they raised the rates was to line their own pockets!!
Public_Domain @ Tue Dec 21, 2010 6:32 pm
martin14 @ Tue Dec 21, 2010 7:55 pm
andyt andyt:
They built a causeway to the 140,000 people of that joke of a province PEI, they should build one between the 750,000 on Vancouver Island as well.
With what Vancouver has become over the last few years, no thanks.
Raise the prices, keep the riff raff on the Mainland.
Freakinoldguy @ Tue Dec 21, 2010 8:10 pm
martin14 martin14:
andyt andyt:
They built a causeway to the 140,000 people of that joke of a province PEI, they should build one between the 750,000 on Vancouver Island as well.
With what Vancouver has become over the last few years, no thanks.
Raise the prices, keep the riff raff on the Mainland.
And while I can't stand David Hahn, the incestous BC Ferry Corporation or the Government that put both of them together, I agree with you 100%.
The cost does keep some of the problems on the mainland where they belong, but the biggest benefit is that with reduced sailings, outrageous prices and a piss poor service record, we've managed to keep from becomming just another of Vancouvers bedroom communites.
Now if we can keep the privately owned, passenger ferries off the straits we'll be okay.