The ferry Taku continues to have mechanical problems, causing further cancellations of its planned sailings.
It was to return to service Tuesday after missing Sunday and Monday sailings. However, the five-decade old vessel is again out of service for repairs to ongoing mechanical problems, and a sailing set for 2 p.m. Tuesday was canceled, according to a release from the Alaska Marine Highway System.
The 352-foot long Taku is expected to resume its schedule and sail from Kake to Juneau and Petersburg on Thursday, the release states.
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Add commentRoad?
When was the last time a road was down for mechanical repair?
Build it...
The road, the road!
If it had been built the first time I posted "Just build the Dam thing!" we would have it now, it's still not too late to get started. NEVER gonna get any cheaper AND it will be built someday(all the way to Skagway) I suggest that everytime someone drives to the end of the road you take some dirt and a shovel, and do your part to extend a proper apendage to those with NO vision! You are under no obligation to wave at them with all your fingers!!
A road to Petersburg?
n/t.
And actually, roads get closed all the time, due to conditions.
We can assume that, if the almost-but-not-quite-to Haines road were to be built, it would be closed by avalanches and heavy snow on a regular basis, and that the "Pro-Movers" would make sure that there were no funds for snow removal and other road maintenance.
The road doesn't solve any problems at all-it would just be a "get-rich-quick" scheme for a few(mainly Anchorage-based)road contractors.
Subway to Skagway and Petersburg
I'm in favor of a subway. No avalanches, no falling rocks, no snow plowing. And if there is a major land shift it just kills everybody at once, so the ongoing maintenance is low.
Build the road
Build the road.
People say it will bring more drugs and homeless...
That isn't really true.
There is a road to Haines from the main land... is there a drug and homeless problem there? NO.
wake up
Subway to Skagway and Petersburg
I'm in favor of a subway. No avalanches, no falling rocks, no snow plowing. And if there is a major land shift it just kills everybody at once, so the ongoing maintenance is low.
WHEN!
Will the superhighway between Juneau and Kake be built? Enough is enough!
A subway with a bullet train
A subway with a bullet train would be great. That will get everyone to skagway even faster than a road. What they will do there no one seems to have a clue, but hey, it's only money and there's plenty of that around.
When indeed!
When indeed has a road ever been down for maintanence issues? I mean, it isn't like the people of Haines are struggling with their road or anything.
I love it! Let's build a
I love it! Let's build a road to Tenakee! I'm sure that would go over real well.
from one to another
Build the road from 1 ferry terminal to another ferry terminal??
makes no sense. would probably have to be closed in winter due to avalanches. and what a great stretch of road to dump unwanted washing machines, deer parts and all the crap that gets dumped now out Montana Crk. don't like the fact that we have no road outta here? then GIT . . .
@doubters of road
Roads are never down for maintenance issues. Never before has a road ever been closed by construction, weather, earthquakes, paving, parades, etc. Roads are perfect and will solve all problems in Southeast Alaska.
No jobs? Build a road!
Nothing to do? Build a road!
Region no longer economically viable? Build a road!
build the road
ROAD!
droog, you forgot
droog, you forgot one:
Isolated community on an island? Build a road!
Florida
Florida has long @ss bridges to the keys. Alaska should have nothing less! Hahaha, I am with brownbear. Build a road!
You know gumrunner, You have
You know gumrunner, You have an excellent point. If they build the road to a new ferry terminal, I'm sure that will be the end of it and they will never do any more expansion to get the road all the way. Good point to about the garbage dumping. Have you seen the piles of garbage all along the Alaska Highway? No? Thats right. You like isolation and never leave your sofa except to get more beer. I wonder if they had all these same objections when they built the road all the way out to the valley?
Many uses
The key here is not just a road, but a road bed. This can be changed as times and technology change. A paved road today for vehicles, and a pipeline could be run alongside. In the future the roadbed could be converted to a rail system. Its the gift that keeps giving.
No Garbage on highways!
Another advantage of highways, there is never any garbage on or around them! I'm so tired of all the garbage on the ferries.
@Kpawsuh
I am not sure any of us were alive when they first built the road out to the Valley, but there was a good reason for it. The homesteaders who had dairy farms in the Valley needed a way to get their product to town.
Btw, how do you know gumrunner drinks beer? I can't stand the stuff. However, a nice Crown and Coke for a jolt of caffeine to compliment the mellow of the booze? Yes, please!
VALLEY ROAD
uh yea and the late 50,done deal---then in the early 60 green construction and a nuber of other outfits finished the system.
And by the way Crystal Lake,Dredge Lake,and all the development in that area was don with land scrapers and big old machines called rock crushers.
And then there were the asphalt plants in that area,then moved to the hill by the rifle range.
Ha so much for enviromental Damage to our wilderness,The greenies keep trying to say that those area are natural werent and arnt.
Cept now as can be seen is Alaska Environment has taken back the area;with out the help of the greenies.
Clean up the area after your done and everything reverts back to Alaska brush.
So build the road,put people to work and take it all the way to Skagway Then bridge to the pass towards Hains call it good.
And yes you still have to go through Canada.
There is a road (no Excuses)And you could make it an adventure.
As long as the Doom and Gloomers have their way a road will never have been built in ALASKA!!!
INTERESTING
Subject pattern controllers at it again,cant stand the truth can ya
A subway and a electric
A subway and a electric bullet train and a pipeline and a plasma burner for the couches and a wind powered recycling station for all the empties. And pixie dust and unicorns to make it happen.
petersburg
This piece is about a canceled sailing to Petersburg, not Haines.
In any event, in a time when everyone's up in arms about cutting 66+ positions in the Juneau School District because of lack of funds, why are we still promoting the idea of building a $1 billion dollar, boondoggle dead-end road to a ferry terminal on the Katzehin River? Where's the fiscal responsibility and sound prioritization there?
@love
The first road out to the Valley from town was put in place in the early 1900s, not the late 1950s. Only back then the road was mud and rock and the dairy farmers had to drive sleighs in the winter to get their product to town.
From the Juneau Historical Society's report on Juneau Dairy Farmers, "Few people lived in the Mendenhall Valley in the 1920's and those that did were self-sufficient. They had their own vegetable gardens and a cow or two. All the delivery routes were in town and transportation over the primitive road in the winter was by horse and sleigh when the snow was too deep, and by an open-sided truck the rest of the year. For those dairymen who lived on the northwest side of the Mendenhall River, it was necessary to travel by boat to town as there was no bridge until around 1928."
Amazing how many paid posters popping up here today
from the Anchorage asphalt pushers-abetted by those who are paid by the people who want to kill the Marine Highway just because those who work for it are protected from getting totally exploited because they have union jobs-as everyone should and as millions of people who don't have want to have and would have, if it weren't for the fact that labor law today is totally biased towards the objective of making it impossible for people to unionize their workplaces.
Fat lot of good it would do Southeast to switch from union jobs to non-union jobs in which workers are just wageslaves, to be run into the ground and then discarded on the whim of management.
And no, it's not "class warfare" to say that-it's just the American tradition of standing up for your fellow "little guys" and little gals. It's just the true American belief that fairness matters.
( petersburg ) where's the Fiscal responsibility?
Any problems with the Juneau school district are a "JUNEAU" problem.
The Juneau access road is a State of Alaska project that is not related to JNU school district funding.
DOT&PF has made a fiscally responsible decision to build "the road" because roads are cheaper than ferries.
In order to reduce the cost of travel in the Lynn Canal corridor roads will be built or lengthened and ferry runs will be shortened.
DOT&PF is making decisions now that will reduce the cost of statewide transportation in the future.
Who is going to pay for all the proposals?
There have been many, many comments, debates and demands regarding the ferry system, a road out of Juneau to somewhere, tunnels through the mountains and transportation among places in Southeast.
Oh yah, they do that in Japan and Norway and other places, but there one is talking about millions of people using the system, not thirty some thousand or even all Alaskans.
When it gets down to reality, who is going to pay for all these proposals? All Alaskans, who live far from Juneau, the State, the federal government, or should those making the proposals say "We will pay for it because I think it will benefit us" ?? Let's see - that might mean that each family in Juneau contribute thousands of dollars each to have better "access."
We happen to live in an area in which there are many islands that from any rational point of view cannot be connected by bridges or highways. Sorry folks, that's just the geography and reality. Well, of course we might wait until plate techtonics jams all these islands into one land mass. But that may take millions of years.
It may be that as a community, just like a family looking at daily and long term expenses, we have to sit down and try to find a reasonable solution or compromise. Shouting "my way" may be the reason there seems to be "no way."
That's just my opinion.
No further comment
Am getting a deja vu feeling I've seen some of these posts before. Love the bullet train idea!
duh
i was commenting on PAVED road and the fact still remains!!the back loop is still a project in the making.
But hey thanks for showing everyone how intelectially more intelligent you are---:--)
P.S. i wasnt around that long ago!!