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Article: PANEL OK'S BILL EASING LICENSE RULES FOR FERRIES IT WOULD STRIP STEAMSHIP AUTHORITY OF POWER TO VETO SERVICE TO VINEYARD, NANTUCKET
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 17, 1988
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A legislative panel yesterday approved a controversial bill
that would strip the Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket
Steamship Authority of its right to deny operating licenses to
private firms that want to run ferry services to the islands.
The measure, which handily cleared the Legislature's
Transportation Committee, would also add two members to the
authority's three-member board, a move that could dilute the
islands' influence over the agency's operations.
Sen. William Q. McLean, Jr., (D-Fairhaven), the committee's
senate chairman, proposed the legislation earlier this month, after
the authority rejected a license request from Joseph G. Pallotta
Jr., who wanted to provide ...