The state designed the Hubbard and Tazlina as dayboats as a cost saving measure. Upgrades to add crew quarters to the Hubbard are already underway, and the state ferry board is now advising $18 million in upgrades to the Tazlina as well.
The M/V Tazlina rounds Point Retreat on its way to Juneau on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2020. . Now the oversight board for Alaska’s ferry system is recommending the state add crew quarters to the Tazlina.
Board vice chair Wanetta Ayers of Anchorage said she’s been a skeptic of the addition but now thinks it makes sense for flexibility. The board also heard this month that the state is still pursuing a new terminal in Lynn Canal to shorten the ferry run between Juneau, Haines and Skagway. “There’s some public benefits to Cascade Point, one of them being cost savings,” Anderson said. “There would be a reduction in fares for the public to do this — about 25% is a very round number but what people could expect. There’d also be a time savings. Granted you have to drive further. But even with the drive, I think we came up with, it’s about an hour and a half one-way of time savings for the public.
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