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TWO NEW West Vancouver-based water taxi services are

set to float residents
snarl.

Cormorant: Marine will launch
its Bowen Island to Horseshoe Bay
to Expo marine plaza service May
2, and Gulf Island Water Taxi will
be extending its regular services to
include a ferry ‘taxi-.from Dua-
darave to the Expo marine plaza.

Cormorant ‘owner Brian Bid-
dlecombe said Tuesday his 38-
passenger water taxi. will make ,
round trips to the Expo site from 9°
a.m. to 11 p.m.-every day of the
fair’s May 2 to Oct. 13 run.

He estimated that a one-way trip
will take 45. minutes. A single
round trip . aboard _Cormorant’s
Apodaca will cost $16 for adults
and $10 for seniors and children.
‘One-way tickets will be $8 and $5.

past the expected Expo 86 traffic

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW
News Reporter

The Apodaca will have a regular
two-man crew and provide jobs for
seven people. ;

Cormorant Marine has been
providing water taxi service to
Howe Sound since 1978.

Farther to the east, Gulf Island’:

Water Taxi (GIWT)-has won ap-
proval to shuttle Expo commuters
from Dundarave pier to Expo’s
marine plaza.

GIWT, which services the Gulf
Islands with seven water taxis, ap-

«plied to operate’ from the West
“Wancouver pier in March at the

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behest of West Vancouver District
Council.

Ocean floor around the pier was
subsequently dredged to improve
docking facilities. The $6,000 costs
were borne 50-50 by GIWT and
West Vancouver municipality.

Bill Hughes, GIWT vice-presi- |

dent, said Wednesday his company
would be running 13 trips per day
The service, he said, would
begin with a 20-passenger vessel,
but might be replaced by a 40-
passenger water taxi by July 15.,,
With four two-man crews, the
service will provide eight jobs.

. Cost of a one-way ticket will be
$6 for adults and $5 for seniors
and children under 12.

For Cormorant Marine water

taxi service information call 1-

947-2243; for GIWT information

call 922-6696.

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“NEWS photo Teny Peters
BRIAN BIDDLECOMB aboard his boat Apodaca comes in to dock’ at
Horseshoe Bay where he will soon be making seven trips daily to the Ex-
po site. The boat carries.up to 38 passengers and two crew members.
Biddlecomb's business will operate seven. days a week during the Expo
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