Ferry future

[cascade]

Dan - If I am on the wrong forum - then I though the debate was about moving the terminals to other locations. Therefore my comment was, as the land on either side of the terminal has been taken - then expansion out to the sea is a viable alternative solution provided the water is not to deep.
Now given John's post about the Cruise ship and having to sit outside - is this because they are too big to maneuver in the port - limited space or is it because the port - area is not deep enough.
I believe - and you can prove me wrong - but the water depth around the terminal - Departure Bay is not that deep - hence it could be enlarged by expanding out into the sea - hence the term Land Reclamation. It already has the road network going to the terminal - so why move to a new location.

As for Bridges - I though the last post before mine was talking about putting a terminal on one of the small island - as a jumping off post. We have talked about bridge on other threads before and I was not bringing up the concept - idea of bridge network to terminal.

[Mac Write]

Could we see more routes in the future to ferry people between more places as the population grows?

[cascade]

The question is - where is the population growth going to be and why there?

Water front - foreshore sites are very expensive, and who ever owns them - Federal or local or even our First Nation friends - then they all want a pretty penny for them. So it becomes very expensive in building new terminals.

I borrowed the idea of building out to the sea from what we have here in Europe. Land here is at a premium and less of it - compared to the wast coastal shoreline of BC.

Road - transport networks - links have been put in place years ago - so instead of wasting all that money - they just expand out in the sea. You can realistically built up to a depth of 15M - and I am sure the Departure Bay is no where as deep as that.

[Alex]

cascade said:

I believe - and you can prove me wrong - but the water depth around the terminal - Departure Bay is not that deep - hence it could be enlarged by expanding out into the sea - hence the term Land Reclamation. It already has the road network going to the terminal - so why move to a new location.

The problem with that is that there's so little space around the terminal that in order to expand it, you'd pretty much have to shut it down for a year or two.