Re: “New boats don’t address state ferry system’s urgent problem” [July 12, Opinion]:
As Roland Rexha so accurately writes, “Ferry customers can’t tolerate hundreds of cancellations per 12 months whereas we anticipate 17-year-olds to grow to be certified to imagine command of the engine rooms of 6,000-ton ferries greater than a decade from now. What’s the level of getting electrical ferries if they can not function because of a scarcity of crew?”
Final week, a whole bunch of passengers had been stranded within the San Juan Islands [“Lack of boats leads to canceled trips, long ferry lines in Anacortes,” July 11, Local News]. Extra exasperating nonetheless, whereas ready for practically six hours for a ferry to Orcas Island, we had been offered both no data or misinformation.
Ferries are the highways for island residents. Shutting down Interstate 5 for upward of six hours would create extraordinary chaos, as was the scenario on the Anacortes Terminal.
Thomas Pullano, Eastsound