Vancouver weather: 5-sailing wait on major BC Ferries route after cancellations [Video]

Many BC Ferries passengers are facing long waits on Wednesday, a spillover effect of the sailing cancellations caused by the “vigorous” fall storm that landed on the South Coast this week.

While the most intense winds have subsided, and there have been no additional cancellations on major routes on Wednesday morning, BC Ferries warned travellers there was already a five-sailing wait heading from Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay as of 7:30 a.m.

There was a four-sailing wait for passengers going in the other direction.

Commuters across Metro Vancouver also woke up to soggy weather on Wednesday, prompting a renewed warning from Environment and Climate Change Canada about possibly hazardous conditions on roads.

“Travel may become difficult in areas of heavy rain,” the agency wrote, in an alert posted at 4:27 a.m.

DriveBC reported a “vehicle incident” in one of the middle lanes of the Alex Fraser Bridge heading into the morning …