{"id":3928,"date":"2015-07-18T06:47:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T14:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2015-07-18T06:47:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T14:47:36","slug":"opportunity-to-comment-on-proposed-ferry-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=3928","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity to Comment on Proposed Ferry Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><\/h5>\n<p>The Alaska Department of Transportation is now accepting comments on their proposed Alaska Marine Highway (AMHS) schedule for fall, winter, and spring of 2015 and 2016. \u00a0The budget for AMHS has been reduced by 5% and they are proposing to significantly reduced service in Southeast Alaska, particularly in Wrangell, Petersburg, Ketchikan, and Prince Rupert by taking the M\/V Taku out of service.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very important that AMHS planners and schedulers know how the ferry schedule will affect your family, businesses, regional economies, and the Southeast lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>Written comments can be submitted via email to <a href=\"mailto:dot.amhs.comments@alaska.gov\">dot.amhs.comments@alaska.gov<\/a> or by fax at 907-586-8365 before Tuesday, July 21, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Testimony will be taken via teleconference on Wednesday, July 22, 2015\u00a0starting at 10:00 am.\u00a0 The toll free number is 1-800-315-6338, conference code 03902#.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/dot.alaska.gov\/comm\/pressbox\/arch_2015\/PR15-2537.shtml\">here<\/a> for more information including the proposed schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alaska Department of Transportation is now accepting comments on their proposed Alaska Marine Highway (AMHS) schedule for fall, winter, and spring of 2015 and 2016. \u00a0The budget for AMHS has been reduced by 5% and they are proposing to significantly reduced service in Southeast Alaska, particularly in Wrangell, Petersburg, Ketchikan, and Prince Rupert by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3932,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/3932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}