{"id":828839,"date":"2026-07-27T08:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/828839\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T08:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:35:16","slug":"bc-ferries-vehicle-deck-space-reaches-capacity-on-vancouver-victoria-sailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/828839\/","title":{"rendered":"BC Ferries: Vehicle deck space reaches capacity on Vancouver-Victoria sailing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SpiritofBC-BCFerries-500px.jpg\" data-caption=\"Spirit of BC vessel [BC Ferries]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"278\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SpiritofBC-BCFerries-500px.jpg\"   alt=\"BC Ferries, Spirit of BC\" title=\"SpiritofBC-BCFerries-500px\"\/><\/a>Spirit of BC vessel [BC Ferries]<br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/islandsocialtrends.ca\/category\/news-by-region\/canada-national\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\" https:\/\/islandsocialtrends.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ISTBANNER-CANADA-NATIONAL-600x94-1.jpg &#13;&#10; \" alt=\"CANADIAN NATIONAL NEWS &amp; ANALYSIS\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday July 26, 2026 | VANCOUVER, BC [Posted at 8:24 pm PT]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tonight as people travel back to Vancouver Island on the BC Ferries main route (Vancouver to Victoria, i.e. Tsawassen to Swartz Bay), travellers are advised that vehicle deck space has reached capacity \u201cfor the remainder of today, July 26\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BC Ferries issued this advisory to media at 8:10 pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foot passenger space remains available. It\u2019s recommended that passengers arrive at the terminal 45 to 60 minutes prior to the scheduled sailing that they intend to travel on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congestion in parking lots is expected to be \u201cVery busy\u201d, so BC Ferries asks people to consider using a taxi or public transit or to be dropped off at the terminal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/islandsocialtrends.ca\/category\/news-by-region\/south-vancouver-island\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ISTBANNER-SOUTHVANCOUVERISLAND-600x96-1.jpg\" alt=\"Island Social Trends, south Vancouver Island\" class=\"wp-image-158914\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">===== RELATED:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEWS SECTIONS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/islandsocialtrends.ca\/category\/organizations-associations\/bc-ferries\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BC FERRIES<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/islandsocialtrends.ca\/category\/news-by-region\/vancouver-island\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VANCOUVER ISLAND<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spirit of BC vessel [BC Ferries] Sunday July 26, 2026 | VANCOUVER, BC [Posted at 8:24 pm PT]&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[23588,49,48,214834,289557,900,55,36245],"class_list":["post-828839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-bc-ferries","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-main-crd-greater-victoria","tag-swartz-bay-tsawwassen","tag-travel","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}