Transit advocacy group Ride New Orleans (formerly Transport for NOLA) holds the "By Boat or by Float" second line tonight to boost awareness of the Algiers ferry.Or boosting awareness, in this case, I guess. I'm not sure the problem with the ferry is that people aren't aware of it so much as nobody wants to operate it.
With no private operators in line to run the ferries once its public funds run out June 30 (following the dissolve of the Crescent City Connection tolls, which powered the ferries), lawmakers have come up with some solutions to keep them running — State Sen. David Heitmeier, D-New Orleans, has a bill to put the ferry's control under a municipal authority, like the Regional Transit Authority, with funding from the state's Department of Transportation and Development. The bill passed the House yesterday.
Not sure RTA wants it either, by the way. Or, at least, they're not saying.
The RTA on possible ferry operations: "Until SB215 is signed into law and reviewed for it's feasibility, the RTA has no comment."
— Paul Murphy (@PMurphyWWL) June 5, 2013
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