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No fries, no —
glory fer ferries

Chris Sorensen, Ali Millerd,
and Takeshi Guenstie

BrrLontributing Writers

WEST Vancouver and
Bowen Island residents
say, “there are too many
things wrong with the
fast ferries, so shut
them down!”

Residents say the fast ferries
are making too many waves,
endangering swimmers, and
that boats are crashing up
against the rocks.

Others say the ferries make
too much noise and the traffic
is horrible getting into
Horseshee Bay.

Passengers say that the fer-
ries are taking up too much

fuel and they have to pay for it:”

They're angry because fuel has
gone up 3.1% in the last
month.

Others say that the seats are
too crowded and there is not
enough room to walk around.
They also say that the cafeteria

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is bigger than the lower pas-
senger deck. One woman says
that her dogs suffer from the
heat in the car deck.

Truck drivers can’t go on
the fast ferries because the
weight of the trucks is too
heavy for the fast ferries to go
high speed. Some say that they
have to wait four hours for a
regular ferry to come in and
take them over to the island. If
the trucks can’t go on the
Nanaimo route they will have
to go all the way to
Tsawwassen to get over to the
island.

Besides all that, the fast fer-
ries don't have any french
fries!

To stop this problem we
think that the engineers
should fix the ferries or get rid
of them. We think the main
problem is that the ferries are
very bad for the environment.

Some of the sources we
used for this article were, the
BC Ferries Web site, and inter-
views with residents of
Horseshoe Bay.

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