Interesting conversation in recent editorials and letters to the editor regarding BC Ferries about their reservation system. It’s amazing how people of privilege talk about planning for acquiring a reservation for the ferry while ignoring issues of the public of average means and lower.
My husband was on a ferry last year in line to buy dinner at the cafeteria and overheard a father with his two small children saying they would have to leave because he did not have enough money to buy them a meal for dinner. My husband was stunned and was frozen, wanting to offer to pay but fearful of insulting the father. And in an instant they were gone.
The discussion should be how BC Ferries is out of touch will the public and do not have any vision of the growing population and how they plan to deal with all of us. They are paid very well and I am in favour of paying a proper salary for running the organization successfully but right now they are struggling.
Why do people who earn only enough to survive not get a discount? And what are they going to do with all the dogs in their tiny inadequate pet area, as the lower deck is now going to be off limits to riders? Who is responsible for a dog bite?
Ms. D. Pearson
Saanich