The Peninsula Princess is still in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia shipyard for repairs and the provincial Department of Transportation hoping to have the ferry back in service by early September.
Kings Centre MLA Bill Oliver says you can only imagine the frustration and anger that the citizens are feeling down there. He says that the ferry carries on average 175,000 cars a year during the ferry season and takes the strain off boats at Grand Bay Westfield and Gondola Point. Oliver says that this situation means an extra 90 kilometre round trip for those people tha tlive in the area serviced by the Millidgeville-Summerville Ferry.
Oliver says that he thinks the time has come that we have to look at having a spare boat in the system.
The department apologizing via the traffic advisory for the inconvenience. The ferry service normally returns in April.
