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Thank you to all our ferry workers, past & present, who've worked long shifts away from home in all kinds of weather to keep Alaska moving. From kids sports, to medical travel, to food transport, to visitor industries -- we have you to thank for making coastal Alaska what it is!

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A little history about the M/V Taku, shared to our #FerriesMoveAlaska group on FB #akleg #akhistory

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What do these three accounts have in common? They started trolling us this week, repeat easily refutable stock talking points against AMHS, and each have less than 6 followers. Draw your own conclusions

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Looks like we're getting trolled by anti-Alaska Marine Highway accounts🤔. BTW the Kake road was very controversial, and repeatedly and vocally opposed by clear majorities in Kake & Petersburg. It's $40 million dirt road across remote N. Kupreanof ending 13 miles from Petersburg.

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@alaska_stank @slutdotnax2 We've been there, have you? It's a dirt road to the middle of Frederick Sound, generally pretty windy and not easy docking for smaller boats.

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Right, because regular highways are paying for themselves with ridership pricing?

[Alaskan Warrior @AlaskanWarrior]

@FerriesMoveAK The only way the ferry system will work is if you extend road systems with shorter ferry rides. You don’t have enough ridership anymore to keep the ferry system affordable.

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@alaska_stank @slutdotnax2 Except when landslides take out roads, or roads are impassible due to flooding, snow, accidents, or other common road maintenance issues. We also don't refer to our towns as "strategic ports" we refer to them as Alaska Native, fishing, and coastal communities.

[salty seadude 🇺🇸Defend Democracy & Environment @10FathomLine]

@FerriesMoveAK The negative economic impact on businesses, individuals and communities resulting from the deliberate destruction of our ferry system by the @GovDunleavy administration, added to the supply chain issues facing our state.
Alaskans needed help, but instead received a gut punch.

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@slutdotnax2 We have an idea: ⛴️

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Our hearts go out to all impacted by this landslide across a road.

Southeast Alaska's trademark mix of weather + unstable slopes can mean dangerous landslides that impact roads communities may depend on. All the more reason to re-invest in Alaska mainline ferries.

[KTOO @KTOOpubmedia]

BREAKING: Landslide along Gastineau Ave in downtown Juneau. Residents in the area are being evacuated and power is out on Douglas, downtown and out Thane. @AELPJUNEAU is attempting to restore power as crews respond to the impacted area.

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Without year round service, we can't keep year round crew. Dunleavy's campaign/admin staff can scapegoat Alaska workers all they want but facts are facts.

[Mike in Anc,Alaska. @MikeinAncAlaska]

@FerriesMoveAK Like a public service should make a profit? It's a service....it will cost money. I'm more then ok with that. I think the overall benefit are worth it, and would like to see it expanded.

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@unthawedalaskan Strange how that works!

[Climate Emergency!! @Iceblue52Roth]

@AlaskanWarrior @FerriesMoveAK Ferries are a public service like roads.
Make them nice and useable and affordable and stable and stop playing politics with them!
Our communities depend on them!

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Extending roads across the remote islands and ice fields of an archipelago means funding maintenance and emergency services, building many new terminals, loss of walk on fares. Even boosters admit this won't work for year round service or serve smaller communities.

[Alaska998 @seinerak]

@sea_changer @scottymax The amount of money wasted on these DOT plans, which had no basis in reality, would have better used by the AMHS.

[Mike in Anc,Alaska. @MikeinAncAlaska]

@FerriesMoveAK We not only need our old ferry system back we need a more extensive ferry system. Western Alaska and the Aleutians need more ferry service. Our large river communities deserve ferry service/winter bussing.

We need public transit for marine and remote areas.

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Communities have consistently asked for reliable mainline service that keeps our smaller and Alaska Native communities connected to vital services. The Alaska ferries are the people's ferries and should serve the needs of the people.

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Coastal Alaska needs a united front to advocate for our ferries, but too often politicians force wasteful, unrealistic, and remote road projects the public isn't asking for. Dunleavy has killed our mainliners, but many other politicians have been quiet quitting AMHS for years

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Telling audiences mainliners are gone for now, Frank Murkowski is asking Petersburg and Wrangell to instead contract an Inter Island Ferry ship and extend that authority's service up to Petersburg at a proposed cost of $9000/day to the boroughs.