Why did the planners and dreamers at Alaska DOT-PF spend millions to construct and pave an additional football field-sized parking lot at the Haines ferry terminal? This is not a joke: to accommodate the terrific, revenue-positive “demand” for ferry travel on Lynn Canal aboard the new Alaska Class vessels. Recall, too, the titanic joke by the Parnell boys, when he and his legislative bed-fellows refused the 90/10, federal/state cost-share that routinely funds major transportation infrastructure,…
