For people in remote areas, ferry systems are like roads. The $1.6 billion in new money should help.
. Haines, in Southeast Alaska , is on the road system, but the Alaska state capital of Juneau is not. So you can drive out of Haines, but Juneau, some 93 miles away, is only accessible by water or air. And the only way to connect to most other parts of the U.S. by car from Haines is through Canada .
Anderson still takes the ferry for Juneau trips to teach nursing courses that require “a lot of equipment that is cost-prohibitive to fly with,” she says, but now works largely in Haines. Ferries often run for decades and the cost for a new boat can run eight or nine digits. But the payoff could, eventually, be huge for both the environment and the health of the people who live in ferry communities. The infrastructure law earmarks $250 million for an electric or low-emissions ferry pilot program that could, hopefully, make cleaner ferries top of mind in more states.
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