Coastal mayors call on province to intervene amid ongoing B.C. Ferries disruptions [Video]

Anyone who takes B.C. Ferries regularly knows, at this point, that long weekend travel may not go as planned when using the ferry service. Vessels break down, sailings are delayed or cancelled, and long wait times are often the result— in some cases, even if you’ve booked a reservation.

Two round-trip sailings from the Lower Mainland to the Sunshine Coast were cancelled over the Easter weekend after a vessel was brought in by tugboat due to a mechanical failure. 

“It’s left residents and visitors to the island waiting hours to get on a ferry,” Silas White, the mayor of Gibsons, B.C., told CBC’s The Early Edition host Stephen Quinn. “Also, surprise cancellations … leave visitors on the island stranded. And then folks on the mainland, whether it’s our students or people that are at medical appointments or commuters stuck on the mainland are unable to get home.”

The years of unpredictability have prompted the mayors …