Englishtown Ferry
.jpg) The Torquil MacLean (Englishtown Ferry), approaching Englishtown, with the Jersey Cove terminal in the background. | |
| Locale | Englishtown, Nova Scotia |
|---|---|
| Waterway | St. Ann's Bay |
| Transit type | Diesel / Hydraulic Cable Ferry |
| Route | Nova Scotia Route 312 |
| Carries | Motor vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians |
| Terminals | 2 |
| Operator | Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (Nova Scotia) |
| Travel time | ~3 minutes |
| Frequency | 50/50 |
| No. of vessels | 1 (Torquil MacLean) |
| Daily vehicles | up to 600 |
The Englishtown Ferry is a cable ferry carrying Nova Scotia Route 312 across the mouth of St. Ann's Bay. The ferry route sometimes runs as much as 24 hours a day, and when open, takes only a few minutes to cross the 125-metre-wide (410 ft) channel, however during the last couple of years, the ferry is frequently closed to traffic more often than it is open, making it less efficient to cross via ferry than it would if a bridge were to be built, in order to replace the ferry. [1] On 25 March 2013, an 81-year-old man was killed after driving his car off the end of the ferry during boarding and plunging into the cold, swiftly-moving waters.[2]
In 2014, the Province of Nova Scotia, operator of the ferry, announced that it was investigating the economic implications of replacing the ferry with a bridge.[3][4]
References[edit]
- ^ "Englishtown Ferry - Nova Scotia". Waymarking.com. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
- ^ "Body of N.S. senior pulled from sunken car near ferry". CBC News. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
- ^ Grant, Laura Jean (8 October 2014). "Province analyzing cost of replacing Englishtown ferry with bridge". Cape Breton Post. Transcontinental. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ^ "Province analyzing cost of replacing Englishtown ferry with bridge". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
 | This ferry article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article about transport in Nova Scotia is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |