PT Would Prefer to Wait for Island Home Boat
April 14th, 2008 by ed friedrichTransportation Secretary Paula Hammond and Ferries Director
David Moseley visited Port Townsend Monday and I’ve been told that
they were going to be told that the community would rather wait
wait for a bigger boat than build one based on the 50-car
Steilacoom II.
Now that the only bid has been rejected for a Steilacoom II boat
and the job will have to be reopened, it can’t be built in time for
the Hood Canal Bridge to be closed in May and June.
In that case, they may as well suffer without a car ferry for six
or seven months, provided there’s a passenger ferry or some sort of
mitigation, I was told.
I hope to find out more tomorrow, but I’m in the middle of a couple
other stories right now.
Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group
April 16th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Seems to me that the requirement to build the boat in Washington State is the biggest hangup. I read in the Marine Daily News (online newsletter) that a yard in Louisiana can get an Island Home-style ferry built in time for the Hood Canal Bridge closure.
April 18th, 2008 at 10:35 am
“I read in the Marine Daily News (online newsletter) that a yard in Louisiana can get an Island Home-style ferry built in time for the Hood Canal Bridge closure.”
Don, can you provide a link to where you read that – I think many people would appreciate it…