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To: Snowshoe who wrote (63800)	5/13/2005 2:59:28 AM
From: marcos	Respond to of 74559

These were aluminium cats too, i don't know in what ways they differed from the alaskan ones ... which we know about here, how well they work, further embarrassing us ... all i know is the rough idea of how the NDP kept changing the plans around in the course of building them, and there would have been cost overruns anyway, but that amplified them The resultant damage was more than just the money burned up, as the next government overreacted imho, by virtually privatising BC Ferries, removed its crown corporation status [meaning you have to pay GST now on your fares, how fricking brilliant], plus they took away our nifty old dogwood logo, and now everything on board has a sort of seedy Ronald Macdonald look to it ... the ferries used to have a certain class, and they used to be a lot cheaper ... i spent years working on various islands, took many a ferry ride, had the routine down pat, always had something to do during the trip, if only read the paper, that's important too .... it is far better to keep the fares reasonable instead of doubling them to make the boat run at an unsafe speed, and you want good sound naval paint on your boat, not that crap plastic you see in every fast food joint on the continent, you only want to see that when you're on the road and need to take a MacDump