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Retired Washington State Ferries’ Captain Ken Burtness has been thinking about going public with his worries about the state of the WSF fleet for the past year.
“(My) main goal is to get the Legislature to understand that they have to fund new boats, that they cannot continue the pattern of the last 27 years and keep putting it off.”
“There was never a shortage of boats and 11 new boats were built between 1970 and 1999. In the San Juans there was a steady increase in the level of service through all those years to meet increasing demand.”
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