Saturday, November 08, 2008
Bio for Trust website
Ian Lowden MSc. BA.
30+ years in counseling, administration, activism, community involvement little theatre teaching college and scuba diving, own business, contract work in curriculum and project development. 9 years living on Gabriola.
The central issue facing the Islands is the continuing rise of ferry rates. We have seen that when traffic on the Vancouver rates dropped to where it was no longer practical to use the new ferries the premier stepped in and reduced rates for 60 days by 30%.
So we know who is really running BC Ferries and what there vulnerability is. I would like to see a trust backed boycott of local ferries using car pooling, small group co-op buying, using own boats, etc. Anything and everything involving every island group to reduce car traffic to the point where they are losing money and thus reduce fares. See Ian's Blog http://ianlowden.blogspot.com/ for more details. E-mail ian.Lowden@shaw.ca.
30+ years in counseling, administration, activism, community involvement little theatre teaching college and scuba diving, own business, contract work in curriculum and project development. 9 years living on Gabriola.
The central issue facing the Islands is the continuing rise of ferry rates. We have seen that when traffic on the Vancouver rates dropped to where it was no longer practical to use the new ferries the premier stepped in and reduced rates for 60 days by 30%.
So we know who is really running BC Ferries and what there vulnerability is. I would like to see a trust backed boycott of local ferries using car pooling, small group co-op buying, using own boats, etc. Anything and everything involving every island group to reduce car traffic to the point where they are losing money and thus reduce fares. See Ian's Blog http://ianlowden.blogspot.com/ for more details. E-mail ian.Lowden@shaw.ca.
