Why are BC residents at the mercy of tourism when we literally use the ferries to live? Ferries are completely unusable in the summer that I just plan my life so that I don’t need to go the mainland and I think that’s unfair. You know, considering we pay taxes for this shit.
Edit: Just want to express my distaste for the lemmy community yet again. I posted this as a “change my view” sort of thing and you all just downvote it into disappearance. There are very good comments in this thread that real people put effort into. If you disagree, simply don’t vote at all. I didn’t break any rules. This behaviour is what prevents this platform from growing.
That’s probably a good thing, otherwise your tickets would probably be 3x more expensive. They pay for your ferries that you rely on.
Ferries are the main reason I would never consider living on the island.
But tourists are making plans and are happy to make the reservations. Many have rental cars and already know their exact travel dates months in advance.
There aren’t many residents actually using the ferry so I don’t think many people would notice a difference in service if there was a BC residents only ferry lane that boards first. Within reason of course. I think 20% of every sailing is reserved for drive on customers? Why not 5% reserved for BC residents who pay taxes to subsidize these ships?
It’s closer to 75-90% (depending on various factors).
And I think you’re significantly underestimating how many BC residents take the ferry. Next time you’re on there walk around and look at plates. I’d be very surprised if you get anywhere close to 50% of personal vehicles with out of province plates.
Lots of rentals in the summer months. But yeah probably like half the people are residents during peak tourism