Like all of our larger problems, writes Kirk LaPointe, systemic ferry follies are neither quickly created nor imminently solvable
For an activity we British Columbians consider part of our way of life, BC Ferries has presented us in recent years with a test of what we will bear when it comes to embarrassment, enragement, expense, dysfunction, distress and demoralization in our way to live.
We seemed to be able to endure – to, yes, have the resilience for – that drain on public finances and display of last-century infrastructure, until the lineups lengthened, the sailing waits extended, the fleet couldn’t fire up consistently, the website went wonky, and the work force strangely shrunk from the task.
If blame is your game, there is much to go around: Successive provincial governments that navigated indifferently on cruise control, and operational and board leadership over the years that was more reactive than proactive.Yes, us. We need to own quite a bit of this. This is where we find BC Ferries: Ignored by us until we developed high anxiety. We have known most of the solutions for years, and we just put them off until we could put them off no longer. We didn’t press politicians to lean in or penalize them when we didn’t – as we did with the Fast Ferries – because we didn’t believe the problems would get to where they have. By the time they did, we wanted a rapid response.
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