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Title: BC's German Ferries May Be Lemons
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2008-11-18 21:34:05
Canadian

[BartSimpson]

Would it really be too much to ask that the wonderful ship yards at Esquimalt be rehabbed to allow modern ship construction? Why did BC have to send out to Germany for something that could have been built better at home?

[bootlegga]

Because it was 'cheaper' to build them there. Same goes for the JSS. Our govenrment is too cheap to spend some extra cash and would prefer to buy them from Europe (if at all), then build them here, providing jobs and taxes.

[RUEZ]

So I guess it's not just the NDP that can screw the BC taxpayer with crap ferries.

[QBC]

Figures......and people wonder why the ferry rides are so expensive. Couls it be that we have to keep paying for shite boats? Look on the bright side, we should be able to sell them for scrap in two, three years.

[RUEZ]

They should just build a bridge and be done with it.

[BartSimpson]

RUEZ RUEZ:

They should just build a bridge and be done with it.

Hahaha, the union for the ferry workers would bitch to no end about that idea.

[BartSimpson]

lily lily:

As would the people who live along the smaller runs.

The smaller runs would be unaffected if a bridge (or series of them) were built to connect Vancouver Island to the mainland. I recall someone back in the 90's was proposing a bridge and the Victoria paper shot it down in flames. I guess the ferry is just kind of popular.

[BartSimpson]

lily lily:

The Island people love their lifestyle, and think it would be ruined if they were connected to the mainland. Possibly it would be.

Granted.

$1:

If the major routes disappeared because of a bridge, the cost of the smaller runs would have to increase or services cut - and those people wouldn't like that.

That's not a valid reason to isolate the several hundred thousand people on the island. A bridge would also connect the train to the island and it'd be a nice boon for tourism in Victoria.

[QBC]

I don't know how they'd build a bridge over there. The water is aweful deep in places and from what I remember, there is no route that doesn't have to span miles of very deep water.

[BartSimpson]

QBC QBC:

I don't know how they'd build a bridge over there. The water is aweful deep in places and from what I remember, there is no route that doesn't have to span miles of very deep water.

Sure there is.

On the map I attached look at the route going across Horsehoe Bay and then hopscotching across Texada and Lasqueth Islands before landing on Vancouver Island. The bridges would all be less than 20km and that's been done before. If you go even further north you could cross at Campbell River and hopscotch across the islands there with shorter spans. This thing is that the further north you go the route is cheaper to build but impractical to use.

Or you could go south and build a bridge to the San Juan Islands to the mainland. That would probably be the cheapest route to go with but the politics of a Canadian route going through the US might prove tougher to conquer than the Strait itself.

[Scape]

The screws are to high because the weight of the traffic isn't as heavy as the design was intended for. Thus they end up sucking air instead of churning water. A cheap fix would be to extend the screws.

[TattoodGirl]

Surprise, Surprise ...now the fares will go up yet again. Thanks Campbell you freaking tard

[RUEZ]

lily lily:

If the major routes disappeared because of a bridge, the cost of the smaller runs would have to increase or services cut - and those people wouldn't like that.

Isn't that already happening?

[QBall]

Scape Scape:

The screws are to high because the weight of the traffic isn't as heavy as the design was intended for. Thus they end up sucking air instead of churning water. A cheap fix would be to extend the screws.

Or add ballast.