All-night sailings a success, THE B.C. Ferry Corp. (BCFC) has said that most ferry travellers have welconicd the 24-hour sailing schedule it implemented earlier this summer out of the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal and that the program has been a success story so far. ‘But a group of Horseshoe Bay tesidents continues to oppose the all-night sailing schedule. The: BCFC began running 24- hour ‘Sailings from Horseshoe Bay and” Nandimo on June 25 as a 5-day’. pilot project to determine the :riew schedule would cut sailing heduie, ferries depart the Horse- hoe. Bay ‘terminal five days a said traffic figures for vehicles. increased in more successful ‘than we: antici- pated,” ’ said Morrison. ~ - | . “He: added that:figures show the night “sailings. were immediately pular. with .overheight vehicles recreational Vehicles; ‘The jhe: said,’ continued yut Taly,. with the 1 am. ¢ : : sau tune. it ‘in, get perature, ies. the ‘snow. at. ce of the : creek water, id id: tired ut-of the © _ and swimming in the creek. » denly* find “point” where | ’ go no _further and Fire “a vanou Chief Rok “member of: the Lyan on safe g to North Vancouver ity: s pokesman: ‘Bruce Hawkshaw, le incident occurred at ‘approxi- a.m. ‘when. the truck the, Kouri Food Inc. located. in the 100- bléek’of Donaghy Street. " three deaths this year, task force, ‘said © Sy Surj Rattan News Reporter Morrison said regular passenger vehicles were slow to start using the 24-hour sailing schedule when it was first implemented in June. 44 The program has _ been even more - successful than we anticipated. 99 ‘—-BCFC general manager : Rod Morrison , But-he said that by the middle of July ferries were carrying good loads, particularlyon the I a.m. , and 3 a.m. sailings. Morrison. added that a passen- “But he said,: “We've got’. and we're going to have to look at ;. that. It’s no more acceptable to the’ firefighters than it is to the public as far as: the deaths ‘down there.”” “Grant believes the task force should “revisit what has to be - done.” Said Grant of the proposal for a bylaw to ban diving and swimming in the creek, “‘Maybe that is an alternative, but then you have to look at ‘ the issue of enforcement.’ “North Vancouver ~ District. Mayor Murray ‘Dykeman said the safety .task force has not recommended a ban on diving Said Dykeman, “‘If 1 had a bylaw, what would I be doing? - These incidents are devastating ‘because we assume a responsi- bility. Some things are helping, -but the tragedies are above and. beyond what we have contro! of. “If. somebody jumps off at - what they call the 90 Foot Pool: _ +. it’s not a prison,” he said. Dykeman said that graphic . signs ‘Prepared for the district b . By Michael Becker . News Reporter The “truck, originating § from ‘Surrey, carried a load that includ- ed 315 cases of Sterno fuel, 117 cases of Sterno Hot. Spot and .1,456'cases of Sterno Wick.. Investigators determined that an - air bladder used:to secure the load inside the trailer. had ruptured in ‘violate them Friday, August 14, 1992 - North Shore News — 3 Says BCEC Local residents still opposed to service ger survey conducted in July found that the two main reasons travellers chose a night sailing were to avoid waits and to take advantage of the 50% fare dis- counts. The third most common response given was 4 preference for traveiling at night. By July 31, 16,083 vehicles and 33,933 passengers had used the night sailings from Horseshoe Bay; 14,474 vehicles and 30,157 44 They haven't monitored anything. The only way you can minimize disruptions out of Horseshoe Bay is to take away the Nanaimo run. 99 —Ingrid Fischer, SOS spokeswoman passengers travelled during the night from Nanaimo. **These figures are a g00d in- dication that our 24-hour sailing program is working,’’ Morrison to draw attention to the hazards of the creek will be in place in the park within days. The signs incorporate illustra- tions, of scenarios based on ac- tual cases in which people div- ing or swimming in Lynn Creek waters were injured or killed. . But Crist said that signs are not enough. “’m angry with the council, _ the mayor and the task force for allowing this to go on. Bylaws are a message. If you it is your prerogative, but you know that we have forbidden it. Think about what we are doing: we are allowing people to jump in- to killer pools.’’ The pool in which - Lewis. died Tuesday is the same spot - in which a young couple . died in August 1991. - Ironically, it is aiso the pool into which a 24-year-old woman fell from the Lynn Canyon suspension bridge last month. : Stephanie James, a non- swimmer, survived a 164-foct (50-metre) plunge from the ridge. - . : transit, causing the contents of the trailer to shift. When the driver opened a trail- er door, about a dozen boxes of Sterno fuel fell out. North Vancouver City Fire Department firefighters and North Vancouver RCMP menibers cor- doned off the area. While the trailer was not loaded ‘ with- toxic chemicals, emergency response officials were concerned - about the potential fire hazard posed by the fiammable material spill. Firefiguters subsequently bagged the spilled boxes and found the rest of the load to be intact. said. ‘‘One of the objectives was to spread the traffic throughout a longer sailing day, diverting some of it away from the peak travel times. : “We will have more complete information at the end of the summer. But so far, daytime waits at both Nanaimo and Horseshoe Bay have generally been shorter than this time last year.”’ But Ingrid Fischer, spokesman for the Horseshoe Bay group Stop Overnight Sailings (SOS), claimed truck drivers she has spoken to are not happy with the 24-hour sailings even though there is a 50% fare discount on the 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. ferries. . Her group has been opposed to the all-night ‘ferry schedule from the start. “The figures may show some success, but at what cost? Who did the ferry people talk to? Not _the truck drivers, - “If a truck driver has to sit at Horseshoe Bay for five hours to - catch a ferry, he doesn’t get paid- said ~ for those five hours,’ Fischer. She added that Horseshoe Bay’ residents are continually being woken up in the middle of the. night by ferry traffic. - “They (BCFC) can say bloody well what they want; above everything. Anything that is not part of their little illogical’ boys’ club doesn’t matter. “I’m sure there’s a lot. of old people at Libby Lodge (Horseshoe they’re . Bay seniors’ housing lodge) who don’t get any sleep.”’ But Alfred Cater, Libby Lodge caretaker, said there have only been a few disturbances associated with the all-night sailings and that most lodge residents don’t mind the night sailings. “Last night (Wednesday). one: ferry got-out of here at.11, and & came right back in and. the. noise he made was terrible; he woke: everyone. up. That has happe! few times. \ >. wae **But other, than ‘that it ‘has n been too bad. Sometimes you hear the trucks coming: down. the hill, Cater said... a ‘Fischer also took: extepiid remark -by Morrison - that-: the BCFC will, continue ; to’. monitor’ traffic . noise levels . to: -“Sminimt any disruptions.”* : . “They haven't monitored- any-: thing. . The only way. you’ can: minimize - disruptions out: © Horseshoe. Bay is to take away: th 2, Fischer said. : OF” : ~ UNDERWA: HYDRAULIC . 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