Ferries busy! - 2012

[glasseye]

Despite the poor weather over the long weekend, there is three hour+ wait today eastbound from both Nanaimo (2 & 30) and Langdale.

Langdale eastbound wait peaked at 5 hours.

[bargain]

I arrived at Langdale terminal at 1235 for the 1445 sailing. Had I been 15 minutes later I indeed would've been waiting for the 16:50 sailing.

Having the Coquitlam's extra sailing so early in the day makes for a very busy afternoon.

[Neil]

The ticket agent at Buckley Bay today confirmed that the Kahloke is being overloaded at times every day on the Denman run, despite being in shuttle mode, and doing a round trip every 35 minutes or so when needed. I arrived at 3:30 for the scheduled 4:00 sailing to Denman, and a departure at 3:50 or so left about 25 cars behind, or almost a full load.

Most of the traffic this time of year is going to Denman, so while the Kahloke may be shuttling, Tenaka isn't. That means you can miss a departure to Denman, and have a fair wait at Gravelly Bay if you happen to get there at say ten to the hour. I got back to my place just before six, after arriving at Buckley Bay at 3:30, which is a fairly long journey taking into account two ten minute ferry rides, and the time of year.

Nothing scandalous, and I realize Kahloke is the only replacement available while Quinitsa is in refit, but islanders will be happy to have the usual boats back whenever Quinitsa's refit is completed.

[Koastal Karl]

at 5pm today I saw route 2 had a 2 sailing wait out of Horseshoe Bay. I was heading to Tsawwassen on the Celebration at the time. A combination of holiday traffic and more traffic using route 2 due to the route 30 cutbacks which I think are rediculas there should of been an exception for Dec 22nd as it is the weekend before christmas so I think route 30 should of been running on the full schedule seeing the ships were leaving over 50% full today. I even saw a few people at Tsawwassen show up that were going to Nanaimo and were suprised route 30 was done for the day.