Mayor Olivia Chow says Toronto’s aging island ferry fleet is safe, despite an increasing number of problems with the boats in recent months.
Mayor Olivia Chow says Toronto’s aging island ferry fleet is safe, despite a number of problems with the boats in recent months. Mayor Olivia Chow says Toronto's aging island ferry fleet is safe, despite a number of problems with the boats in recent months.
The city's ferry fleet serves 1.4 million passengers annually and has been under increasing scrutiny after several safety incidents. The four aging vessel's reliability has also been questioned after lengthy outages have taken some of the boats out of service earlier this year. The most high profile incident occurred in August 2022, when the Sam McBride collided with the dock, injuring 20 people and sending six to hospital. A Transportation Safety Board inquiry found that "several safety deficiencies" contributed to the incident.
The city began preparations to buy replacement boats in 2015, and city council has changed the specifications of vessel design a number of times, leading to cost escalations. "We are putting very big eyes on everything to do with the ferries until we get the new ones," she said. "The ferry maintenance, the docking, who's going in the ferries … That oversight has been ramped up to, I'll say, 150 per cent."
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