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Orphan Road 2.0

By Frank on January 26, 2010

We’re back! Sorry for going dark for the last 48 hours. I’ve been migrating the blog software from Drupal to WordPress, mostly in an effort to cut down on comment spam and make it easier to post links and images. In an ideal world, I would have warned everyone in advance that I was going [...]

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Right on the advertised….

By serial catowner on February 28, 2008

….according to Daimajin at Seattle Transit Blog, Bainbridge wants more passenger ferries.

But why would they want that? The half-hour crossing is barely long enough to grab a donut and a cup of coffee as it is.

Maybe it has something to do with the time it takes to load and unload the cars, reducing the frequency of the sailings. Maybe merchants in Bainbridge would like more customers without more cars. Maybe the passengers think a different place would be more convenient for foot passengers to load and unload. Or maybe they think passenger ferries would be faster.

The cheapest way to meet this demand is to quadruple the speed with which passengers can embark and disembark, only load as many vehicles as can be loaded while passengers get off and on, and double the frequency of the sailings.

But, before we can try that, we’ll have to try everything else first. It’s just the way we do things around here.

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