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Old Posted Oct 29, 2008, 10:29 PM
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Service started today on the private ferry from Bowen Island to Vancouver:

http://coastallinkferries.com/

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Come and ride the Coastal Link Ferry, from Bowen Island to downtown Vancouver in 35 minutes. Our scheduled ferry connects people from downtown to downtown. It's the time-saving, cost-effective way to travel. We invite you to sit back, relax, enjoy coffee, read a newspaper and take the stress out of your daily commute.

Our initial Vancouver Dock is the Vancouver Public Dock, located at the north end of Bute Street, in Harbour Green Park. We will begin boarding 15 minutes prior to departure.

On Bowen Island we will dock at the Bowen Island Marina, in Snug Cove, immediatey beside the BC Ferries Dock.
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^it would still be cheaper to take the ferry from Bowen Island to Horseshoe Bay.

why is there no ferry terminal downtown anyways?
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You mean "ferry" in the sense of the ones that go to Nanaimo? Think about how much space all the parking lots and terminals take up. Try finding that space downtown without demolishing a ton of buildings ($$$$$$$).

They had that private express one that went from Waterfront Stn. to Nanaimo, but I think they went bankrupt.
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Think about the traffic chaos ~___~"
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They had that private express one that went from Waterfront Stn. to Nanaimo, but I think they went bankrupt.
you mean that HarbourLynx thing?
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What about a foot-passenger-only ferry? Has it been tried before? Perhaps if it went to Victoria, which is a much more pedestrian/transit-oriented city than Nanaimo. . .
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Yes but think about how much further it is, especially if it went to downtown vic.
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The CP ferry used to run from Coal Harbour to downtown Nanaimo in the 1970s.
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What about a foot-passenger-only ferry? Has it been tried before? Perhaps if it went to Victoria, which is a much more pedestrian/transit-oriented city than Nanaimo. . .
Yes, twice. Royal Sealink Express in the early 90s had catamaran service to downtown Nanaimo and downtown Victoria, and Harborlynx (sp?) in the early 2000s had a service to downtown Nanaimo. Neither lasted too long.
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http://www.canada.com/northshorenews...a-c95cc9127641

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Bowen Island gets two commuter ferry services

James Weldon, North Shore News
Published: Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Ambleside may soon be getting its own ferry connection to Downtown Vancouver if a company starting up a new service on Bowen Island gets its way.

Coastal Link Ferries, which started delivering foot passengers directly from Bowen Island to Coal Harbour Oct. 29, plans to expand its service to include a stop in West Vancouver en route some time next year. The change would mean Ambleside commuters could get from the North Shore to the city centre in just about 10 minutes.

"It's essentially a bus on the water," said Peter Green, marketing and communications director for Coastal Link. "Those who've done test runs with us have learned it's a beautiful trip (and) it's very quick."

The company is one of two to appear almost simultaneously last week offering new connections from Bowen to the city. Just 24 hours after Coastal Link's Oct. 28 announcement, another service called Granville Island Water Taxi made public its intention to do the same thing to a slightly different destination, running passengers from Bowen to Granville Island and back beginning Nov. 1.

Both enterprises are looking to cash in on the perceived frustration with transit service among Bowen Island's 3,500 residents.

As it stands, islanders must travel by B.C. Ferry to Horseshoe Bay, then either drive or bus through West Vancouver and over the Lions Gate Bridge to downtown, a journey that can take as much as two hours.

B.C. Ferries foot passengers pay about $10 for a round trip, and vehicle passengers up to $30 on top of that. They must also keep their travel to within a relatively restricted timeframe, as the vehicle ferry only runs from about 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The two new businesses hope to benefit from those limitations.

"There's just a big need from a commuter foot passenger point of view," said Kelli Turner, owner of Granville Island Water Taxi. "Residents are getting frustrated with the late ferries and inconsistencies."

How the businesses managed to choose virtually the same start date was unclear, but Green suggested they were both natural outgrowths of demographic change. The problems with commuting from Bowen have always been there, he said, but population growth on the island has only now made it viable for a private ferry service to step in. It has also been boosted by rising gas prices, which have made it less appealing to drive, added Green.

While the two companies will be covering similar routes, the services will differ in several ways. As one goes to Coal Harbour and the other Granville Island, they will be targeting opposite sides of the downtown core. Coastal Link's boats will hold 65 passengers and run once in the morning to Vancouver and once in the evening back to Bowen (although it plans to expand to up to eight round trips daily). Its competitor takes just 12 passengers, but offers runs almost hourly between 6:30 a.m. and 11:30 p.m.

Both will take about half an hour to cross (rising to 45 minutes for Coastal Link if and when it adds a stop in Ambleside). Tickets from the island to the city and back will be in the $20 to $25 range, depending on the number bought.

Despite the parallels, Green does not see the two services as competitors.

"It's similar to being in a city: we're a bus, they're a cab," he said.

TransLink has studied the feasibility of a publicly funded SeaBus service from Bowen and Ambleside to Vancouver, but has concluded that it would not be practical. Most of the users of such a service would be drawn from other parts of the public transit system. As it stands, those other parts work fine and are much more cost effective, said Ken Hardie, a spokesman for the authority.

"The operational costs of a vessel are . . . a lot higher than a bus," he said. "It really didn't make a lot of economic sense."

But TransLink will revisit the issue in the future, said Hardie.

For more information on the new passenger ferries, visit www.granvilleislandwatertaxi.com or coastallinkferries.com.

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Longer wait for new SeaBus

By Jeff Nagel

Published: November 07, 2008 12:00 PM
Updated: November 07, 2008 12:59 PM

A third SeaBus that was to go into service next summer has had its launch date pushed back a few months.

The new passenger ferry is now expected to begin plying the waters of Burrard Inlet next September or October, TransLink spokesman Drew Snider said.

A previous launch date of July 24 had been promised by Washington Marine Group, which is being paid $25 million to build the new vessel in Victoria.

Transit riders won't feel the full impact of three SeaBuses – including more frequent sailings every 10 minutes at peak times, versus 15 minutes now – until late in 2010.

That's because the 12 months after the third vessel launches will see the existing 30-year-old Beaver and Otter take their own turns in the shipyard for upgrades.

The new SeaBus will also get its own name and TransLink is now asking transit users to help come up with one.

The Otter got its name from the aquatic critters passengers can sometimes spot while crossing between Lonsdale Quay and Waterfront Station.

The Beaver was named in part for the historic steamship serving the coast between Portland and Vancouver until running aground in 1888.

TransLink's name-the-SeaBus contest runs until Nov. 21. Email suggestions to seabus_name@translink.bc.ca, enter at www.translink.bc.ca or look for entry forms in local community newspapers.

Entrants get a chance to win transit passes as well as a ride on the inaugural sailing and the "warm and fuzzy feeling" they'll have each time they board the boat they named.

The SeaBus carries five million passengers a year.
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Old Posted Nov 8, 2008, 7:56 AM
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Name the Seabus

Burrard Beluga? No, not native..... How about Burrard Dogfish
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^^ Sea horse, Orca and Tortoise?
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