Comments on: Cruise the Alaska Marine Highway – Alaska’s Best-Kept Secret https://cruisemaven.com/alaskas-best-kept-secret-the-alaska-marine-highway/ Cruising the World One Port at a Time Mon, 15 Mar 2021 14:56:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Sherry Laskin https://cruisemaven.com/alaskas-best-kept-secret-the-alaska-marine-highway/#comment-220767 Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:20:38 +0000 https://cruisemaven.com/?p=36160#comment-220767 In reply to William D. Webster.

Hi William,
Thank you for sharing your insightful information. I truly hope that the ferry system doesn’t disappear…it’s such a valuable and important transportation system. From the schedule, it looks like there are only six ferries set to operate this year. Very sad. Thank you again for taking the time to post your comment.
Sherry

]]> By: Sherry Laskin https://cruisemaven.com/alaskas-best-kept-secret-the-alaska-marine-highway/#comment-220766 Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:17:20 +0000 https://cruisemaven.com/?p=36160#comment-220766 In reply to Jim Heaton.

Thank you for your suggestion. I checked the ferry schedule today and currently there is twice-weekly ferry service to Petersburg. As an Alaska resident, I try to understand the lack of service and plan my trips accordingly.

]]> By: Jim Heaton https://cruisemaven.com/alaskas-best-kept-secret-the-alaska-marine-highway/#comment-220765 Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:34:10 +0000 https://cruisemaven.com/?p=36160#comment-220765 You need to update your information. Ferry service is at a minimal level and not even useful for southeast residents anymore.

]]> By: William D. Webster https://cruisemaven.com/alaskas-best-kept-secret-the-alaska-marine-highway/#comment-220754 Thu, 11 Mar 2021 04:08:39 +0000 https://cruisemaven.com/?p=36160#comment-220754 Sadly the Governor of Alaska and idiots in Juneau are trying to kill the ferry system and have tried to do so for years. They have cut service on all mainline ferries and just built “day boats” to get rid of full time crews. Day boats have no staterooms or most anything for the passengers. I worked the ferries for 15 years when everyone was proud to be employed by them. Now the state treats merchant mariners like garbage. The two “new” ferries they are building in Ketchikan are cheap junk! They need to start building mainline ferries like the ones built in the “60’s that are still running. I don’t see the ferries being around very much longer. The original main line ferries were built before the “Oil Money”. Now that the politicians have the oil money they waste it on pork barrel projects. To them the ferry system is a poor stepchild. Example: Last year the governor hired a new Commissioner of Administration that is a Washington DC insider. To get her to take the job, they had to make a new position for her husband at $180,000 a year, but they say they have no money to run the state! BTW/ I also worked for the State of Washington ferry system for 16 years and they are expanding every year.

]]> By: GB https://cruisemaven.com/alaskas-best-kept-secret-the-alaska-marine-highway/#comment-220690 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 04:07:20 +0000 https://cruisemaven.com/?p=36160#comment-220690 Sorry to say this is for the most part a thing if the past.
The Alaska Marine Highway is almost completely shut down, due to Budget cuts and now the Wunan Virus, yes that is the name, just like the names for the varients of Wunan Covid Pandemic.
South African, Great Britain, etc.
I’m an Alaskan, wishing it wasn’t so.
But it is.

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