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Originally Posted by BCPhil
A bridge is probably a bad idea, and pretty much impossible or overly expensive that the gains can't possibly justify the costs.
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This is just the same "remove a ferry, replace with a bridge" scam that the province has been doing for a while now with bridges that cross rivers and lakes. In some cases the bridge just replaces the (cable-)ferry because of traffic volume, in other cases the bridge either increases or decreases the traffic off another route.
The irony in some cases is that the Province will replace a ferry with a bridge, and then change the highway connection so that that traffic ends up bypassing the bridge anyway. Like, if the ultimate goal was to create a series of bridges that eventually link to Vancouver Island, I could see that being the end-goal, but right now this seems like "BC Ferries wants to stop serving this money-sucking route", so we're seeing studies on it just to prove to the government it's worth subsidizing that ferry route.