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Our aging ferries want to retire

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The twenty one available Washington State Ferries are old. Some are long overdue for retirement. But thousands of people still depend on them every day, and new ferries are not coming anytime soon.

Seattle Times Reporter David Kroman talks about the state of our ferries, and why it’s been so hard to build new ones.

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