Re: “Police will be waiting for ferry users,” letter, April 19.
The letter and photograph suggesting that police would be waiting to administer a breathalyzer test to passengers disembarking from B.C. ferries are simply absurd. Surely the Times Colonist could use its pages to publish more noteworthy items.
The Coho and the Clipper ferries have served alcohol to passengers for years, and yet there is no police team waiting to test passengers as they disembark in Victoria. Similarly, for the Washington state Anacortes ferry, there is no special focus on ferry passengers.
Those drivers who do get police attention and are tested do so because of erratic driving and suspicion of impairment, regardless of whether they rode on a ferry.
Roger Cyr
Victoria
