Dear Editor:
Re: Residents Should Board First: Petition, Sept. 4 news story.
I can sympathize with Ryan Medd and his fellow Langdalers that have to use B.C. Ferries out of necessity, but I can’t agree that they should get priority loading.
If you take his argument to its logical extent you would have to give priority to the entire highway network to those who are travelling to or from home. So how are you going to do that with the Port Mann Bridge? Or Highway 1? Or the Lions Gate Bridge? Or any street, road or bridge anywhere?
Also, Langdalers know when they choose to live there that B.C. Ferries is their link to the mainland, and as a result they save about a million dollars (literally, average house price in Vancouver is $1.5 million; average house price in Sechelt, $558,000) when they bought their home on the beautiful Sunshine Coast peninsula. The million dollars they save on their house purchase can buy a lot of water taxis or seaplane flights, for the occasions that B.C. Ferries is not quick enough to meet their demands.
Brock Bishop
North Vancouver
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