BC Ferries delays sailing cuts to Gabriola-Nanaimo route after community concern
NANAIMO — Cuts to the number of sailings on the Gabriola to Nanaimo ferry route are now postponed until mid-October.
BC Ferries initially proposed nixing two mid-afternoon Saturday and Sunday sailings, a trip in each direction, starting June 15 and lasting into winter 2020. This would eliminate 124 sailings out of the roughly 7,000 on the route each year.
Steven Earle, chair of the Gabriola Ferry Advisory Committee, said there weren’t concerns about the small number of sailings lost but to the lineups it would cause on busy summer weekends.
“It’s a safety concern,” he told NanaimoNewsNOW. “The road the lineup goes along is not a good road for a ferry lineup. It’s curvy, has hills and is really difficult. We don’t like it.”