News about ferries, roads, bridges and other transit to Ocracoke
MANNS HARBOR – The annual transition to shoulder-season ferry schedules will begin next week for the North Carolina Ferry System. Over the next six weeks, several gradual changes will occur on four of […]
MANNS HARBOR – The North Carolina Ferry Division’s Hatteras-Ocracoke route will run an amended schedule on tomorrow (Sept. 22) and Friday (Sept. 23) while crews conduct mandatory sea trials and a Coast Guard inspection […]
The Pamlico Sound ferries are again on an abbreviated schedule while one of the ferry boats, the Cedar Island, is out of commission awaiting repair of the starboard engine shaft seal, said Tim […]
The sound-class ferry Sea Level has been repaired and was placed back in service on the Pamlico Sound yesterday afternoon. With four boats running, all sound ferries are back on their full […]
July 13, 2016, in the Island Free Press. Used by permission. By Catherine Kozak Furious Hatteras Island watermen lashed out at the state Ferry Division on Monday, July 11, at the Dare […]
July 13, 2016. Noon. Updated July 14, 2016. 11:41 a.m. with corrected ferry route information The Cedar Island ferry is on the winter schedule while one of the ferry boats, the […]
Friday, July 8, 2016 The regular monthly meeting schedule for Monday (July 11) with N.C. Ferry Division officials and Ocracoke islanders has been cancelled, and the next meeting will be Monday, Aug. 8, […]
Raleigh – Summer congestion on the North Carolina Ferry Division’s Hatteras route could be significantly relieved by two passenger-only ferries, according to the results of a study done for the state and released […]
By Connie Leinbach With the N.C. Senate’s favorable first vote Tuesday night on the 2016-17 budget, the toll threat on the Hatteras/Ocracoke ferry appears to be over for now, and the N.C. Ferry […]
By Connie Leinbach The Ocracoke community is buzzing over the firings Friday of 11 N.C. Ferry Division workers at the Silver Lake Ferry terminal operations. Word was out over the weekend after […]
