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Article: Southeast's new transportation plan.(Alaska Marine Highway System ferry)
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- October 1, 1999
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It's dark still-just after 2 a.m.-and a line of wet and weary travelers, blurry-eyed from the early morning hour and fitful sleep on hard terminal seats, readies to board an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry in Ketchikan.
Cranky kids. Confusion. What could have been a much-anticipated ride home for some, or scenic sightseeing trip for others, is instead a veritable travel ordeal. It's exactly that form of inconvenience and limited options that state transportation strategists hope to combat with a new plan that hit the streets this year.
Culminating a two-year effort to design a blueprint for transportation in Alaska's Panhandle, state planners have ...