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Ferry Cam project gets the go-ahead ALEX KURIAL Editor
HAPPY CANADA DAY! Indigo Grant celebrates July 1 with Kai at Canada Day Reimagined. The event, held between Bowen Island Community school and the Community Centre, featured food, activities, Indigenous food & games, and ended with the famous Fire Truck spray down. / Submitted photo
Island ferry riders may soon have a better look at the local vehicle lineup situation. Last week Bowen council agreed to support a ferry camera project in collaboration with a trio of local residents. The project aims to establish a camera on the Community Centre aimed at Bowen Island Trunk Road. This would give people a look at the latter portions of the vehicle ferry lineup, particularly past the crest of the hill where vehicle cutoffs generally start to take place, and help them decide if they should try and make the current sailing or hang back until the next boat. Rather than a live video feed, the camera would take snapshots of the lineup at one-minute intervals. These snapshots would be available through the municipality (BIM) website, with image quality reduced to protect privacy (ie. faces or licence plates wouldn’t be detectable) while still providing a meaningful view of the vehicle lineup. Images would not be stored or remain available for viewing anywhere after they are refreshed. CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
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