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Originally Posted by BCPhil
So 1 example of a bridge replacing an inland ferry in the last 40 years? It's outta control!
And really? the Castlegar-Robson bridge is worse than the ferry? Those businesses moved because shit like Canadian Tire doesn't go in small town downtowns.
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Are you really going to suggest that only one ferry was on the chopping block?
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Hull # 123 (built in 1961 by Allied) was the old Harrop Ferry, that the one in place now replaced.
That ferry was sold and stripped down in Nelson then transported to Arrow Lakes where it is used as a work barge.
The Present Harrop Ferry was until 1959 the Nelson Ferry beside the present bridge at Lakeside park to Jorgenson's landing.
After the bridge (at Nelson) was built, the ferry was moved to Castlegar where they had 2 ferry's crossing to Castlegar at Robson. When the Bridges went in there (Castlegar) and after a fight with people of Robson, the old Nelson was moved to Nakusp where it sat until 1992 when it was cut apart and moved to Kaslo and assembled as present Harrop ferry.
The other Castlegar Ferry is now the Arrow Park Ferry.
Read more: http://ferriesbc.proboards.com/threa...#ixzz3nHOiJdBB
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The Harrop and Glade ferries
are being replaced and will be in service by 2018.
Yet...
A ferrytale existence
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In later years, the ferry’s capacity increased to five, and then in 1980, the present eight-car ferry began crossing the river. Denisoff retired about 20 years ago.
Periodically, the notion of replacing the ferry with a bridge is suggested, such as in 2002 when the BC government threatened to reduce service and slap tolls on inland ferries.
Denisoff recalls one public meeting where he suggested they vote on it.
“I think 80 per cent were for the bridge,” he says. However, “now that we’ve got a lot of new people, it’s getting to be pretty even.”
He says Glade is becoming a “semi-recreational” haven, popular with hikers, canoeists, ATVers and snowmobilers. They like their seclusion, and fear a bridge would change that. To them, a short, free ferry ride is an asset, not an inconvenience.
“We have people from Kelowna and the Lower Mainland, and for them to wait the five or eight minutes, they’re laughing, because you go to the coast, [ferry sailings] will take you two hours at times.”
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Like what I want to draw the comparison to is, that if a community is only reachable by ferry, then that community might want to keep it that way to prevent development. But that comes at a cost, and when the ferry is free to use, that means that community is being subsidized heavily by the government.
The Sunshine coast ferry isn't free. But how much is that route being subsidized by the large ferry routes?