If you want to put our system into a death spiral then just go ahead and raise ticket prices as they suggest. Fewer riders, less revenue, less service, ferry system layoffs. You might as well plan now to tie up the passenger-only ferries and expect more gridlock on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Ride the Microsoft Express, Nintendo Maru, or Coca-Cola Cruiser. State tax support for the ferries is appropriate.
Electronic systems work in subways and highways.
As governor of Missouri, he appointed a record number of minorities to state boards and commissions including eight African-Americans as judges. George Bush has nominated the most multiethnic cabinet ever. What a concept. He is a conservative. And since most of the voters of this country are liberals, and the rest ought to be, he is unacceptable.