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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Jul 1, 2021 20:58:55 GMT -8
I hope BC Ferries learns for BC Day holiday weekend to add even more sailing to schedule because I don’t think current schedule meet the demands.
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Post by gordon on Jul 2, 2021 8:00:40 GMT -8
How was the traffic volume at Tsawwasen in comparison to Horseshoe Bay
If Duke Point had 2 berths cpu the 3rd HSB Departure bay vessel be moved to the Duke Point route?
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Jul 2, 2021 14:25:16 GMT -8
How was the traffic volume at Tsawwasen in comparison to Horseshoe Bay
If Duke Point had 2 berths cpu the 3rd HSB Departure bay vessel be moved to the Duke Point route?
I think that would make traffic volumes even more of a nightmare at Horseshoe Bay.
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Jul 2, 2021 18:13:46 GMT -8
I think the best way to help reduce traffic at Horseshoe Bay is to gave second boat on Langdale to Horseshoe Bay route a 8 sailing per day to gave a total round trip on route 16.
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Post by Nickfro on Jul 29, 2021 13:03:17 GMT -8
Just a cool 5 sailing wait on Route 1 out of Tsawwassen right now. Hard to think anyone travelling in a car would even try going stand-by in peak season. . .
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Jul 29, 2021 14:40:15 GMT -8
Just a cool 5 sailing wait on Route 1 out of Tsawwassen right now. Hard to think anyone travelling in a car would even try going stand-by in peak season. . . It is sailing wait out of Departure Bay and deck 5 is closed on Coastal Renaissance even through is busy at both terminals.
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Post by hwy19man on Jul 30, 2021 15:33:39 GMT -8
Please be advised that the Queen of New Westminster will be operating on a modified schedule for the remainder of the day and cancelling the last round trip due to an earlier sailing delay caused by a crewing issue. The Coastal Celebration will sail an additional round trip to accommodate. All Queen of New Westminster sailing times will be 90 minutes later than originally scheduled."
www.bcferries.com/current-conditions/service-notices?serviceNoticeCode=8798812974856&routeCode=01TSAA
The Celebration will do the 2200h and 0000h round trip instead. I have not posted this in a while, but, this happens a long weekend. Does that mean Murphy's Law strikes again?
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Post by Departure Bay on Jun 29, 2023 18:39:50 GMT -8
As of 5:30 pm today, all the main ferry routes to Vancouver Island are full for the remainder of the day. Not sure I've ever seen that before. The first two sailings tomorrow from Tsawwassen to Duke Point are also full. Are people sleeping in their cars at Tsawwassen?
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Post by hwy19man on Jun 30, 2023 15:09:51 GMT -8
Route 2 from HSB had a five sailing wait at 1300h. That means all the remaining sailings from HSB are full!
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Post by hwy19man on Jul 10, 2023 15:30:20 GMT -8
Route 2 has three sailing waits at both terminals! Vehicles are now lining up for the 2240h sailing. The Cowichan is 45 minutes behind schedule.
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Post by WettCoast on Jul 10, 2023 16:10:35 GMT -8
Route 2 has three sailing waits at both terminals! Vehicles are now lining up for the 2240h sailing. The Cowichan is 45 minutes behind schedule. Eight sailings per day whereas a year ago there were eleven. Surprise, surprise!
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Post by hwy19man on Jul 20, 2023 14:53:15 GMT -8
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Post by Dane on Jul 21, 2023 6:45:31 GMT -8
That six sailing wait posted about last night has continued into today. I appreciate with the high reservation load on the ferries these days six sailings actually represents a fairly small number of cars, but that's still a pretty dramatic wait. The loss of four sailings per direction per day with the Celebration out is certainly felt.
I was just playing momentarily on the reservations page, and if you bought a reservation right now, for today, you'd get to Vancouver faster via Route 5/9!
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Post by Departure Bay on Jul 21, 2023 13:41:03 GMT -8
Horseshoe Bay -> Departure Bay was full for the day as of 1:35 pm. Crazy! As of 2:40 Tsawwassen -> Duke Point has a 4 sailing wait and Tsawwassen -> Swartz Bay has a 3 sailing wait.
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Post by Neil on Jul 21, 2023 17:40:53 GMT -8
That six sailing wait posted about last night has continued into today. I appreciate with the high reservation load on the ferries these days six sailings actually represents a fairly small number of cars, but that's still a pretty dramatic wait. The loss of four sailings per direction per day with the Celebration out is certainly felt. I was just playing momentarily on the reservations page, and if you bought a reservation right now, for today, you'd get to Vancouver faster via Route 5/9! I wonder how much stock we can put in the website's advisory about availability. The first six route two sailings out of Horseshoe Bay tomorrow are at least 84% 'available'. Some sailings tomorrow for Langdale are 100% available. Nonsense, in both cases.
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Post by arrrrmatey on Jul 22, 2023 6:17:03 GMT -8
That six sailing wait posted about last night has continued into today. I appreciate with the high reservation load on the ferries these days six sailings actually represents a fairly small number of cars, but that's still a pretty dramatic wait. The loss of four sailings per direction per day with the Celebration out is certainly felt. I was just playing momentarily on the reservations page, and if you bought a reservation right now, for today, you'd get to Vancouver faster via Route 5/9! I wonder how much stock we can put in the website's advisory about availability. The first six route two sailings out of Horseshoe Bay tomorrow are at least 84% 'available'. Some sailings tomorrow for Langdale are 100% available. Nonsense, in both cases. I can’t comment on the route two availabilities; that does seem odd. But the Queen to Coquitlam’s sailings on route 3 are typically not reservable. I can only speculate as to why, but perhaps because they are only ~45 minutes behind the Surrey’s sailings and there would be nowhere to hold the checked in traffic until the Surrey departs (at Horseshoe Bay at least).
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Post by 1foot2ships on Jul 24, 2023 0:16:59 GMT -8
some screenshots to share: photo1: taken at 1651 photo2: taken at 1938 photo3: taken at 2219 photo4: taken at 0030 i wish there was a way for me to stitch together the 4 photos so it would be easier to compare. i have two huge issues with what happened here.
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Post by 1foot2ships on Jul 24, 2023 0:29:34 GMT -8
its 0127 and im at the terminal. the 0100 special is targeted to depart at 0150 now. there are 3.1 lanes of reserved and 1.2 lanes for drive-up.
somebody in the top 1/4 of the drive-up lane was here at 2100. after i gawked how bad that was, he said somebody else is still here from 1630
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Post by 1foot2ships on Jul 24, 2023 1:52:58 GMT -8
and this is what 79% looks like on the last boat to make monday following bjs vs seattle, saskatchewan vs lions, whitecaps vs somebody, a taylor swift weekend w/o the help of WSF and with that german lemon once again out of service. shoot! i took a panorama of the MCD and one of the UCD, but error msg uploading: file too big. sorry!
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Post by Mike C on Jul 25, 2023 6:44:47 GMT -8
This morning, on a random summer Tuesday, BC Ferries is reporting a NINE sailing wait on the Tsawwassen side of Route 1, largely resulting from the lost capacity from the C-Cel being down. As of 5:30 am, they were ticketing for the 6 pm.
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Post by Neil on Jul 25, 2023 8:55:21 GMT -8
This morning, on a random summer Tuesday, BC Ferries is reporting a NINE sailing wait on the Tsawwassen side of Route 1, largely resulting from the lost capacity from the C-Cel being down. As of 5:30 am, they were ticketing for the 6 pm. Or, as Dane suggested... right now you could get on the 10:25 sailing to Mayne, arriving at 11:55 (lots of space available), then leave via route five at 12:45 for Swartz Bay. Sometimes it's worthwhile being a ferry fan/schedule nerd.
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Post by arrrrmatey on Aug 4, 2023 16:13:38 GMT -8
Well it’s just after 5pm on Friday afternoon, leading into the busiest weekend of the year for BC Ferries and there are no sailing waits on any major route in either direction.
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Post by Neil on Aug 4, 2023 17:11:42 GMT -8
Well it’s just after 5pm on Friday afternoon, leading into the busiest weekend of the year for BC Ferries and there are no sailing waits on any major route in either direction. Given all the publicity about BC Ferries' woes lately- including the self-inflicted wound of erroneously reporting a nine sailing wait the other day- I suspect a lot of people were expecting ferrymageddon this weekend, and went elsewhere.
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Post by ferryfanyvr on Aug 5, 2023 18:56:11 GMT -8
Well it’s just after 5pm on Friday afternoon, leading into the busiest weekend of the year for BC Ferries and there are no sailing waits on any major route in either direction. Given all the publicity about BC Ferries' woes lately- including the self-inflicted wound of erroneously reporting a nine sailing wait the other day- I suspect a lot of people were expecting ferrymageddon this weekend, and went elsewhere. I guess in this day and age all the up to date info is considered helpful. But it turns out all is well this weekend, so the media hype was actually detrimental the traffic carried by the ferries on this busy period. Maybe next weekend or the one after that will be very busy, who knows. I remember asking my grandmother 20+ years ago if she was afraid of dying and she said no, the world has changed so much. It totally makes sense to me now. And no I don't need an intervention, my statement just comes from 60 years of living lol.
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Post by Neil on Aug 5, 2023 20:09:15 GMT -8
Given all the publicity about BC Ferries' woes lately- including the self-inflicted wound of erroneously reporting a nine sailing wait the other day- I suspect a lot of people were expecting ferrymageddon this weekend, and went elsewhere. I guess in this day and age all the up to date info is considered helpful. But it turns out all is well this weekend, so the media hype was actually detrimental the traffic carried by the ferries on this busy period. Maybe next weekend or the one after that will be very busy, who knows. I remember asking my grandmother 20+ years ago if she was afraid of dying and she said no, the world has changed so much. It totally makes sense to me now. And no I don't need an intervention, my statement just comes from 60 years of living lol. I disagree that 'media hype' is to blame for any drop-off in holiday weekend traffic. BC Ferries is beset with crew shortages, mechanical breakdowns, and even major website glitches. That has been reported, but not exaggerated, and, the company has acknowledged the challenges they face. Like a lot of forum members, I've been following ferry issues for decades, and I think I can cut through uninformed bs, but if I were planning a getaway this weekend, I wouldn't have depended on the ferries either.
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