Fares would at least have to double if they were also to defray capital costs. Think again. The Massachusetts model might be a lesson for Washington: Charge far higher rates to drivers to encourage them to leave their cars behind and offer better bus connections to pedestrians at either end of the ferry trip. Lower-cost foot ferries offer another possible solution. Motorists would, of course, be left high and dry.
Another idea would be to charge a toll on the I bridge across Lake Washington, placing it under the umbrella of the Washington Toll Bridge Authority to generate revenue for the ferry system.
Tolls on an eight-lane turnpike bridge across the Delaware River 60 miles to the north cover the operating deficit and all capital needs. But if higher fares worry islanders, to what extent would drivers crossing I be willing to pay tolls to help subsidize ferry riders?
The system would idle about a third of its fleet and shutter six terminals. Navy salvage and rescue ship during World War II. Its crew supported the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in After the war, the vessel joined the Coast Guard fleet, where it was used for international ice patrols, maritime research and finally, in the late s and early s, Bering Sea patrols.
It was decommissioned in The boatyard used two sections, one feet long and the other feet long, as a floating pier. Both were initially part of the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge in Seattle, a portion of which sank in November It is the second-longest floating bridge in the world.
Lovric plans to refloat the pier section in the near future. Sign Up For Newsletters. Fabled Alaska ferry sinks after Washington pier collapses in storm March 1, Casey Conley ,. In an e-mail, Coursey wrote:. Any method, including a lottery, would result in someone or some community being disappointed. He extended an invitation to Washington state regulators to come up to British Columbia and look at the work being done to prepare the HMCS Annapolis, a decommissioned foot destroyer that will be, if all goes according to plan, sunk in Howe Sound near Vancouver sometime next year.
But according to several experienced divers and an area dive-oriented business owner, the economic benefit to financially strapped Puget Sound communities such as Brinnon and Port Gamble, both near Hood Canal, could have been significant. Mark Peil, who works for the city of Port Townsend, has 17 years of scuba diving experience. He spends it there, not in Washington state. He noted that the best local diving is in the winter when times are tough for area tourist-industry businesses.
Don Coleman, who operates the dive charter boat Downtime out of Pleasant Harbor on Hood Canal the only dive charter boat in the area , said that an artificial reef would create an opportunity for another seven boats, and he welcomed the competition. The doomed ship did not. After the third boat was lost, those on board the Clallam devoted their attention to trying to save the ship.
The few passengers left joined the remnant of the crew in their desperate efforts to keep the sinking vessel afloat. The pumps were impotent, and three gangs of bailers were set to work. It seemed for a time that the Clallam was to be saved. But the hull began to give way before the terrific assaults of the waves.
When the Clallam broke down yesterday afternoon she was within twenty minutes of her dock in this city. People who watched her from the shore say she suddenly stopped steaming and slewed around, drifting broadside on before the wind, which was blowing at the rate of thirty miles an hour from the southwest. She reeled heavily from beam to beam then. The local agent was notified, and he endeavored to get a local tug to go to her assistance, but tailed, owing to the absence of the vessels of the tug fleet, and no steamer had steam up.
Then he telegraphed to Seattle, and tugs were dispatched to her from there. The Richard Holyoke, in command of Capt. Robert Hall, was the first to reach the Clallam, which had by this time careened partly over from the inrush of water which had put the engines out of commission.
The Holyoke reached the Clallam about 11 o'clock last night, and succeeded in getting a hawser aboard, with which she started to tow the ship to safety. The Clallam took a heavy lurch, and those remaining aboard were compelled to climb up the side to safety, finally reaching the roof of the pilothouse.
Without a moment's hesitation the tug's boats were lowered and the work of rescuing those remaining on the sinking ship was commenced.
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