{"id":49570,"date":"2021-03-30T11:34:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=49570"},"modified":"2021-03-30T11:50:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:50:38","slug":"upcoming-changes-to-the-campbell-river-quadra-island-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/upcoming-changes-to-the-campbell-river-quadra-island-ferry\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming changes to the Campbell River-Quadra Island ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Roy L Hales<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/tag\/bc-ferries\/\">BC Ferries<\/a> will be holding a Virtual Community Meeting, regarding upcoming changes to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/tag\/campbell-river-quadra-ferry\/\">Campbell River-Quadra Island<\/a>\u00a0run, from 6:00 \u2013 7:30pm on Wednesday, April 7th, via Webex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcferriesprojects.ca\/islandclass\/survey_tools\/rt23rsvp\">Click on this link to register.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49573\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_1077.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"Lineup at the Quathiaski ferry terminal on Quadra Island - Roy L Hales photo\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49573\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49573\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_1077.jpg\" alt=\"Line-up at the Campbell River-Quadra Island ferry terminal\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_1077.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_1077-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_1077-287x215.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lineup at the Quathiaski ferry terminal on Quadra Island - Roy L Hales photo<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Changes to the Campbell River \u2013 Quathiaski Cove Ferry<\/h2>\n<p>Two new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/tag\/e-ferries\/\">Island Class hybrid e-ferries<\/a> will be taking over BC Ferries Campbell River-Quadra Island run in early 2022.<\/p>\n<p>One vessel will be in service 16 hour hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>The other will be in operation during the peak hours, starting at 7:30am<\/p>\n<p>Both vessels will tie up at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/tag\/quathiaski-cove\/\">Quathiaski Cove<\/a>, on Quadra Island, when not in service.<\/p>\n<p>BC Ferries has drawn up a proposed schedule which icincludes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Up to 59% more capacity in peak times<\/li>\n<li>No changes to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/tag\/quadra-cortes-ferries\/\">Heriot Bay \u2013 Whaletown<\/a>\u00a0schedule<\/li>\n<li>Short breaks in the schedule in the morning and evening to provide crew on both vessels with their required meal breaks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\n<p><div id=\"attachment_94160\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94160\" class=\"wp-image-94160\" src=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-22-at-8.09.50-AM.png\" alt=\"Island Class Snapshot\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-94160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Island Class Snapshot: efficient, quiet battery-hybrid ferries\u00a0\u2013 Courtesy BC Ferries news release.<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Link to BC Ferries\u2019 online survey<\/h2>\n<p>BC Ferries want to ensure that the schedules we\u2019ve proposed balance operational requirements with community needs and are asking for your thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>They are asking interested residents to fill out this survey:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcferriesprojects.ca\/islandclass\/survey_tools\/rt23survey\">https:\/\/www.bcferriesprojects.ca\/islandclass\/survey_tools\/rt23survey<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Links of interest:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcferriesprojects.ca\/islandclass\">(BC Ferries) Island Class Scheduling Engagement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/campbell-river-quadra-islands-second-hybrid-electric-ferry-launched\/\">(Cortes Currents) Campbell River-Quadra Island\u2019s second hybrid electric ferry launched\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/campbell-river-trial-run-of-new-island-class-hybrid-electric-vessels\/\">(Cortes Currents) Campbell River trial run of the new Island clss hybrid-electric vesels<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/video-of-bcs-new-e-ferries\/\">(Cortes Currents) Video of BC\u2019s new e-ferries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/campbell-river-quadra-run\/\">(Cortes Currents) Coming to BC ferries Campbell River-Quadra Island run<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/tag\/campbell-river-quadra-ferry\/\">(Cortes Currents) articles about, or mentioning the Campbell River-Quadra Island ferry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/tag\/quadra-cortes-ferries\/\">(Cortes Currents) articles about, or mentioning, the Quadra-Cortes Island ferry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Roy L Hales BC Ferries will be holding a Virtual Community Meeting, regarding upcoming changes to\u00a0Campbell River-Quadra Island\u00a0run, from 6:00 \u2013 7:30pm on Wednesday, April 7th, via Webex. Click on this link to register.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":49602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2602],"tags":[7691],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49570"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=49570"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=49570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}