Bob Mackin

News Reporter bmackin@nsnews.com

TO avoid missing the boar, take the bus.

That's the message to John Mackintosh and teow SeaBus passengers during the morning and affernoon cOMMules.

Customer advisory notices at the Lonsdate Quay terminal remind passengers of alternate methods to cross Burrard Inlet.

Namely buses via bridges.

“It's obvious that cither the pilots of the SeaBus are retiss- ing to make more mips in a given hour er Translink is using the public, and [mean using, the public, to create a need for more SeaBuses that the public cannot afford,” Mackintosh said.

Coast Mountain — Bus Company spokesman Mike Bellavy said 10 to 30: passen- gers have been stranded most weekdays between 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. and + p.m. to 4:30 p.m. They're forced to wait 15 minutes until the next sailing.

Bellavy attributes the pas- senger increase to the number of ESL (English as a second language) summer school students commuting to schools on cither side of the inlet. “We're hoping it will alleviate itself once the summer is over, but we're waiting patiently to see how it all turas out,” Bellavy said.

He said Coast Mountain is exploring ways to increase capacity on the Burrard Beaver and Burrard Orter. Maximum passenger load is 400 and more can be accommodated if seating is reconhy- ured. Alterations and additional passenger load require federal government approval.

Bellavy said running the 23-year-old vessels ata higher speed is not an option. “As you're talking about engines running at maxi- mum capacity for long durations, you start looking at wear and tear. We have nwo SeaBuses and if one of them goes down, then people are going to be waiting a lot longer.”

The SeaBus runs every 15 minutes daily until 6:30 p.m. and during peak weekend hours. ft operates every half hour during other times it's in service.

The average speed is 11.5 knots. There is no blanket speed limit in Burrard Inlet. The ideal solution as promoted by North Vancouver District council and others would be the addition ofa third vessel. However, Bellavy said Coast Mountain parent com- pany | TransLink isn’t likely to make such an investment during this decade.

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SEABUS passenger John Mackintosh says the SeaBus should go faster and make more trips to avoid leaving passengers behind.

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