Mr. Chairman, we will look at it and see what the technology would be to have some signal between the ferry and the vehicles at some point. We want to look at it carefully because we believe the bridge proposal is moving ahead very quickly and we are soon going to be into bridge construction and so on, so we don't want to invest a lot of money into something if it is expensive but we will look at it. The other issue of putting the ferry onto a schedule, the challenge for us there is that we have a lot of traffic sometimes and if we had it on a schedule, we'd end up having a ferry sitting there full waiting to move ahead and that would be even more frustrating for people. Our view is that since it is a short crossing with a cycle time of about 20 minutes being on demand is probably the best alternative there. Thanks.
Joe Handley on Standing Committee On Governance And Economic Development Comments
In the Legislative Assembly on February 24th, 2003. See this statement in context.
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Standing Committee On Governance And Economic Development Comments
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 23rd, 2003
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