The Crisis at BC Ferries -- Why no reservations frequently means long waits on the main routes (The TYEE)

By breakfast time on Wednesday, BC Ferries was already warning that anyone wanting to drive onto a ferry on the route between Victoria and Vancouver without a reservation would be out of luck until the 9 p.m. sailing that night.

The jam was due to a staffing shortage that had unexpectedly caused cancelled sailings. As passengers who had paid $18 for reservations on the cancelled sailings were shifted onto other sailings, which were already heavily reserved, ferries filled up quickly.

The company’s website warned that drive-up space would be scarce and encouraged people without a confirmed booking to instead consider travelling as a foot passenger or via the terminal in Nanaimo, a 137-kilometre drive from the one at Swartz Bay ...

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