News log 2012 week 24

Ferry toll moratorium extended
Beaufort Observer
Last year's bi-annual budget contained an exemption for Hatteras and Knotts Island ferry tolls but lawmakers in the Senate wanted to remove that exemption this year to make up for transportation spending in other areas, including spending on the ...
 
Grand Manan loses air transport contract for patients
CBC.ca
The end of a 30-year service that transports ill or injured Grand Manan residents off of the island to hospitals on the mainland has some people worried, but Ambulance New Brunswick officials are confident there will be no ill effect on patients.
 
New Bolivar ferry still in the wings
Beaumont Enterprise
It's the Fourth of July week and Galveston Island is hoping for its usual influx of visitors. But the newest boat in the Galveston-Port Bolivar ferry fleet is still in trial mode. The ferry connects two segments of Texas 87 and is the only way to get ...
 
Eurotunnel Heads Back to Future With Ferry Acquisition
Businessweek
When the Channel Tunnel rail link between Britain and France opened in May 1994, prospects for shipping routes between the two countries looked bleak.