New signs in Horseshoe Bay

[Ferryman]

I noticed as I was about to go on to the Sea to Sky Highway turning off at the exit beside the ferry lineup to get into the toll both, but now they have the lanes divided further up the hill and they got more electronic signs that point down the lanes to tell you which lane to be in to go to Nanaimo,Langdale...etc. I don't think they've done that at all at any other terminals but it looks like a really good idea for people who have never been on the ferries before and are going on it for the first time not knowing what to do. So now it finally looks like Horseshoe Bay can finally support all of the cars now on busy days like those huge waits with cars lined all the way up the Upper Levels up to at least the Caulfield Dr. Exit in the Summer, (for people who are not familiar with the streets for West Van it's the second overpass you go under as you leave the ferries out of Horseshoe Bay and just pass that huge turn on the huge upper levels bridge or the exit the signs tell you to turn around at to go back to the terminal.) So after putting the huge underground parking lot for foot passengers to park their cars and hop on the boat and the moving of the toll boths way up the hill and expanding all of the lanes an extra 2 or 3 km out of Horseshoe Bay, It only took hmmm 10 years to support the amount of traffic that goes there? Someone back me up on that estimate.

[Doug]

Most of the work at Horseshoe Bay was done in the latter, being doubled in terms of car capacity after the fast ferries. I was there in April 2001 and the work had just begun and was still being undertaken a year later. They were just finishing a new building at the berths when I was there again in Summer of 2003.