Re: “Broken ferries test electrification plan as Ferguson aims for more green boats” (Jan. 7, A1):
It looks like there was little to no thought or dialogue about the opportunity of constructing a tunnel (or tunnels) for a long term answer. In Norway (which in lots of, some ways is much like the Puget Sound space) they’re changing ferries with tunnels at a comparatively cheap price and are even establishing an underwater floating tunnel.
This expertise is confirmed (Norway has greater than 30 undersea tunnels). For example, if we constructed a tunnel from Seattle to Bainbridge, we may fairly get rid of three ferry routes: Bainbridge, Bremerton and Kingston. Because the crossover time could be minutes, quite than hours, nearly everybody would save time attending to the Kitsap Peninsula.
Even when a tunnel price $2 billion {dollars}, that may be about the identical quantity wanted to interchange 4 ferries at $500 million apiece.
Time to begin considering outdoors of the boat.
Ralph Naess, Seattle
