Opinion: Ferries boss makes promises for this weekend, the busiest of the year
“Our technology hasn’t kept up as we’d like it,” replied Jimenez.
The work was then bumped into the province’s only other dry dock in North Vancouver. But the yard was backed up, leaving the ship out of service over the Canada Day long weekend. But it is not as if he and his executive team didn’t have ample warning of the fragile state of the ferry service, as manifested in the earlier disruptions over the Victoria Day and Canada Day long weekends.
The staffing problem is not “just about hiring people, it’s about training people, it’s about finding the right environment, changing the culture — all that is going to take time.” B.C. Ferries has submitted a $5 billion capital plan to the independent ferry commission as a prelude to a business plan and a series of tender calls.
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