Travel routes already busy as B.C. heads into Labour Day weekend – BC [Video]

Travellers at the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal were greeted with multiple sailing waits Friday, as B.C. entered the Labour Day long weekend.

But BC Ferries says it is ready to welcome over 500,000 passengers and 200,000 vehicles through to Monday.

“We did quite a bit of work in advance of the summer season as a whole to prepare and ensure that this summer ran a lot more smoothly,” BC Ferries spokesperson Ceilidh Marlow said.

“We optimize our refit schedule for all of our vessels so that they would all be in service in advance of the summer season, and that has worked out really, really well and gone very smoothly. We also hired an additional nearly 600 employees.”

Around 90,000 vehicles and 270,000 passengers are …