Transportation

You have access to adequate transportation. This could be a personal vehicle; a regular or electric bicycle, motorcycle, or scooter; and/or accessible and affordable public transportation to get where you need to go when you need to.

Barriers

  • Expense of owning a vehicle
  • Expense of purchasing a mode of transportation
  • Public transit only runs from May – September
  • Cost of ferry
  • Limited schedule for bus across Denman
  • Denman bus does not line up with the ferries that meet the city bus to Courtenay
  • Unable to drive for any reason
  • No electricity for e-bike or scooter
  • Fuel is more expensive on-island than off

Community Vision

Hornby Island no longer participates in the global petroleum economy.

We are forerunners in the use of renewable energy sources for transportation. We use Canadian-made and environmentally friendly fuels to power our vehicles and have significantly reduced our use of individual motorized vehicles.1

Bus Rides (2022)

Bus service runs from May through August.2

Blue Bus Rides (2022)

Bus service runs from June through August.3
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Average Ferry Traffic to Hornby by Month (2014 - 2022)

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  1. Community Vision. (2002). HIRRA. Retrieved from https://hirra.ca/hornby/hornby-island-community-vision-statements/ ↩︎
  2. Coordinator. (2023). Denman Works! ↩︎
  3. Blue Bus Report. (2022). HICEEC ↩︎
  4. Informal Survey of community on community Facebook page, Hornby Island Community Connections ↩︎
  5. Traffic Statistics. (2023). BC Ferries. Retrieved from https://www.bcferries.com/in-the-community/resources ↩︎