The Legislature at one point had $31 million allotted to the Keystone project with terms of moving the terminal or extending the jetty out another 300 feet. I have been to meetings in Port Townsend and Coupeville listening to the WSDOT and Sen. Haugen. I proposed using the Army Corp. of Engineers to extend the jetty with Core-Loc Armored units earlier this year.

I wrote the governor in May and did not get a response until October from a WSDOT administrator complaining about the Legislature taking their funding and only getting a million to do a boat study (put the cart before the horse). The Port Townsend side had WSDOT engineers designing fluffy pictures and proposing $50,000 parking spaces. Now, we have passenger only ferry service, can’t imagine why?

Don’t propose 144 car ferries. Upgrading electrics to the Evergreen class size is fine. With the gas going up, travel numbers didn’t increase. We need parking at Port Townsend for the passenger ferry. You try driving around, when you get to Mukilteo, Boeing gets out for a two hour delay.

David McCloskey

Oak Harbor