Blair Redlin says his is the 15th review of one kind or another of ferry services in 15 years. Reports are comparatively easy. The challenge is implementing the recommendations.
VICTORIA — Transportation Minister Claire Trevena last week finally released the report from a $250,000 review of B.C. Ferries that she’d been sitting on for months, doing so at the same time she restored some ferry services cut by the B.C. Liberals.
The ferry corporation has been trying to manage demand with incentives to book early and travel at off-peak times. He cites the recent case of the Queen of Cumberland, put out of service in the southern Gulf Islands after an accident, with no suitable replacement vessel.So, more ships. But built where and at what cost?
The report recommends “an improved shipbuilding and repair strategy to help the B.C. industry become more competitive.” He would also require an all-embracing cost-benefit analysis of the capital plan, quantifying “the economic impact each time B.C. Ferries chooses to build or retrofit vessels overseas.”
“The challenge, of course, is how to fund the debt for such capital,” writes Redlin. “There is no magic solution.” But those operational subsidies would only be the beginning, judging from the challenges implied by the Redlin report on the capital side.
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