SeaBus
SeaBus is a passenger ferry service across the Burrard Inlet that connects downtown Vancouver with North Vancouver . The owner and operator is the Coast Mountain Bus Company . SeaBus is part of the TransLink transport association . The Vancouver pier is located at the Waterfront Station , where you can transfer to the SkyTrain and West Coast Express . In North Vancouver, the ferry docks at Lonsdale Quay.
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The ferry service operates daily between 6:00 a.m. and 0:30 a.m. From Monday to Saturday both ferries run every 15 minutes during the day, the actual travel time is 10 to 12 minutes. In the evening and on Sundays, there is only one ship every 30 minutes. As is customary with all public transport in Vancouver, use on New Years Day is free. A total of 3 ferries are used, the MV Burrard Beaver (built in 1976) as well as the MV Burrard Pacific Breeze (2009) and the MV Burrard Otter II (2014). The ferries hold 385 passengers. This is to catamarans from aluminum with four diesel engines and four propellers . Minor maintenance work usually takes place at night, and larger maintenance work takes place on Sundays because of the 30-minute intervals that then apply. The motors are basically the same as in the TransLink buses .
history
The first regular ferry service began in 1900 with the North Vancouver ship . Three years later, the newly formed North Vancouver Ferry and Power Company took over and built a new ship called the St. George . The ferries later became North Vancouver Ferry No. 1 and North Vancouver Ferry No. 2 renamed. The company came into the possession of the city of North Vancouver in 1908, which had a third ferry built, the North Vancouver Ferry No. 3 . In 1936 the second ferry was decommissioned.
After the opening of the Lions Gate Bridge in 1938, passenger numbers initially fell, but then increased again during the shipbuilding boom of World War II , as many workers had to be transported to the shipyards on the north bank. In 1941 the new North Vancouver Ferry No. 4 put into operation and in 1942 the company hired the ship Crosline from Seattle . In 1943 over seven million passengers were counted.
In the 1950s, the number of passengers dropped significantly. The No. 3 was sold in 1953. Because of the steadily rising costs, the ferry service turned out to be increasingly unprofitable and was stopped on August 30, 1958. The ferry No. 4 was later used in Prince Rupert , while No. 5 has been converted into the Seven Seas floating restaurant in North Vancouver; this restaurant was in operation until the ship was scrapped in 2002. In 1977 the ferry service under the name SeaBus was resumed after the two cities abandoned the construction of a second highway over the Burrard Inlet.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Passenger house of third SeaBus arrives at Victoria Shipyards. TransLink, February 18, 2009, accessed September 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Burrard Otter II arrives in BC waters. TransLink, August 12, 2014, accessed September 12, 2017 .