Sentences with phrase «ferry service cuts»

VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal government has ignored the pleas of thousands of British Columbians and announced it will go ahead with reckless ferry service cuts that will hurt the province's economy and seriously impact coastal communities.

In the legislature, Trevena and fellow New Democrats pressed the B.C. Liberals for answers after an economic impact study by the City of Prince Rupert found that the government's ferry service cuts could cause «serious and widespread damage to the northern B.C. economy.»

VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal government is ignoring a report from the City of Prince Rupert that warned that ferry service cuts will do serious and widespread damage to the northern B.C. economy, say the New Democrats.

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VICTORIA — Women in the Bella Coola Valley could lose a mammography screening program if reckless Liberal cuts to ferry services on the north and central coast and Haida Gwaii go ahead, say New Democrats.

Under the B.C. Liberals, ferry ridership has fallen, fares have climbed, debt at the corporation has ballooned, the government has failed to curb exorbitant executive bonuses, and now people up and down the coast are facing devastating service cuts, said Trevena.

People on the coast rely on ferries to get medical treatment outside their communities, and these service cuts could lead to fewer people getting timely medical help,» said Rice.

VICTORIA — The B.C. New Democrats want to hear about the real costs of service cuts at B.C. Ferries.

VICTORIA — Cuts to ferry service by the B.C. Liberals could mean the Powell River Kings will have to shut down the franchise, say B.C. New Democrats.

VICTORIA — Transportation Minister Todd Stone is refusing to rule out cutting the ferry service that connects Horseshoe Bay and Nanaimo «I asked the minister directly whether he was planning to cut this vital link between Vancouver Island and the mainland;...

VICTORIA — B.C.'s New Democrats stood up for residents of coastal communities Tuesday as several hundred British Columbians gathered at the legislature to protest the B.C. Liberals» reckless cuts to ferry services.

«Since these service cuts were announced in November, I have heard hundreds of stories about the real effects they will have, and they are staggering,» said New Democrat ferries critic Claire Trevena.

The M5 bus route, which was previously one of the city's longest routes and stretched from Washington Heights to South Ferry, was cut into two sections at 38th Street to speed up service in January.

The new ferry service from Kitsap Transit will cut the one - way trip time between Seattle and Bremerton in half, to around 30 minutes.

He said that, despite setbacks after the 2002 and 2005 terrorist attacks in Bali, Gili Air's popularity had grown steadily until about seven years ago, when a handful of ferry operators introduced «fast boat» service to the islands, cutting travel time from Bali roughly in half.