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Poll: 30% of Squamish respondents avoiding travel on BC Ferries due to possible disruptions

Squamish Chief polled 109 readers and asked the question: Are BC Ferries cancellations and schedule changes impacting your travel plans?
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Lack of BC Ferries crew members had the transport company scrambling Friday (July 8) morning, forcing at least two cancellations with two more sailings in doubt.

The Squamish Chief polled 109 readers and asked the question: Are BC Ferries cancellations and schedule changes impacting your travel plans?

The poll ran from 7/1/2022 to 7/9/2022. Of the 109 votes, we can determine that 44 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes. I'm avoiding travel to destinations like Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast and the Gulf Islands. 31.82 % local, 29.36 % total    
Possibly. I'm keeping an eye on the situation. 25.00 % local, 22.02 % total    
No. I'm assuming BC Ferries will sort out the problems before my summer vacation. 9.09 % local, 11.01 % total    
No. I wasn't planning to take BC Ferries to begin with. 34.09 % local, 37.61 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Squamish Chief readers that are located in Squamish. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 9.36%, 19 times out of 20.

Squamish Chief uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.

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