Ferry Schedule Change for October 1st, 2021

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BC Ferries has been working on a schedule change for Route 20 for some time now. They reviewed their proposed changes with members of the FAC earlier this week.

This quote from BC Ferries with some background rationale:

"This amended schedule has been developed as a way to address the unsatisfactory on-time performance/reliability of the service on this route. This schedule is thought to provide a much better chance of seeing the ship on-time/close to on-time than has been happening over the past year or so. It provides in-port (loading/unloading) times that don’t exist in the current schedule, and many of these proposed departure times are much closer the ‘the actual times the ship has been leaving’ anyways. As per the discussion around the usual ‘school student’ sailing at 3:35 being moved to 3:50 pm, this indeed is one of the cases where the proposed time is fairly accurate to what is actually happening now, so we hope that’s considered if people are concerned about moving that school sailing later".

Some other details to note: there is still 10 round trips a day and 11 on Friday; the first departure from Thetis will be at 6 AM Saturday to Thursday and 5:45 AM on Friday; elimination of in transit meal breaks for the AM watch (Sat - Thu); a scheduled in port meal break for the AM watch (Sat - Thu); two in transit meal break crossings for the PM watch (Sat - Thu); 2 in transit meal break crossings for both the AM and PM watch on Fridays; tie up at Thetis at 11:25 PM (Sat -  Thu) and 11:45 PM (Fri).

The schedule will change Friday October 1st, 2021.

Keith Rush Route 20 FAC