{"id":41863,"date":"2019-01-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/alaska-plans-for-new-ferry-tazlina-to-begin-operation-in-may\/"},"modified":"2019-01-22T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T01:02:08","slug":"alaska-plans-for-new-ferry-tazlina-to-begin-operation-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/alaska-plans-for-new-ferry-tazlina-to-begin-operation-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska plans for new ferry Tazlina to begin operation in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KETCHIKAN<\/strong> &mdash; The Alaska Marine Highway System plans to put its new ferry Tazlina into service in waters in the southeast in May.<\/p>\n<p>The ferry system announced last week that the 280-foot vessel will operate in Lynn Canal, replacing the ferry Fairweather that connects Juneau, Haines and Skagway, the Ketchikan Daily News reported.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel built in Ketchikan can accommodate 300 passengers and 53 vehicles. The 235-foot Fairweather could hold 210 passengers and 31 vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The state&rsquo;s other new ferry, the Hubbard, is expected to be completed by the summer or fall, said Aurah Landau, a spokesperson for the system. The system plans for the Hubbard to begin operating in the Prince William Sound in southern Alaska in 2020, replacing the ferry Aurora.<\/p>\n<p>The state has scrapped plans to install crew quarters on the new vessels. Adding crew quarters would have broadened the ferries service roles but would have cost about $27 million.<\/p>\n<p>The system does plan to add forward side doors to the new ferries, costing about $3 million each. The forward starboard door will be installed on the Hubbard during its ongoing construction, Landau said.<\/p>\n<p>When the Hubbard is rolled out, it will replace the Tazlina in Lynn Canal as the door is added, Landau said.<\/p>\n<p>Changes to ferry deployments and retirements will save the state about $1 million that would have been spent on an annual overhaul for the Fairweather and about $10 million for engine repairs on the 235-foot Aurora, the ferry system said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;By putting the Alaska Class Ferries into service sooner, we can replace vessels earlier and save on maintenance costs,&rdquo; said John MacKinnon, commissioner of the state Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 This is an Associated Press report.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KETCHIKAN<\/strong> &mdash; The Alaska Marine Highway System plans to put its new ferry Tazlina into service in waters in the southeast in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":41864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-41863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-home2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41863"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}