By Sam Walker of the Outer Banks Voice on June 20, 2016.
(used by permission)
Passenger-only service has been discussed as a potential option to alleviate delays for travelers getting across Hatteras Inlet due to shoaling that has forced vessels to take twice as long to cross. Results have yet to be released of a study of the N.C. Department of Transportation instituting passenger ferry service between Hatteras and Ocracoke villages, six months after it was supposed to be completed.
Long delays at the docks have slashed the number of day trips to the island by visitors staying on Hatteras Island and the northern beaches, hurting businesses on Ocracoke.
At the monthly meeting of NCDOT Ferry Division officials with Ocracoke residents June 13, Deputy Director Jed Dixon said it has yet to be seen by the department’s oversight panel.
“We haven’t been able to get it in front of the Transportation Board,” Dixon said, according to the Ocracoke Observer. “It keeps getting pushed back. I can’t bring it to you until they approve it.”
Officials said last year the feasibility study, which began in April 2015, was to be completed by December.
“It should be considered at their July (Board of Transportation) meeting,” said Angela M. Welsh, director of the Albemarle Rural Planning Organization on Friday.
According to the N.C. Board of Transportation’s schedule published in August 2015, the next meeting is slated to take place June 29 and 30.
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That leaves us with lack of spin.
I wonder what’s holding it up- lack of data, lack of favorable data, or lack of spin?
They already have the data. The study is complete….
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