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FERRY OUTLOOK page 38, “Innovative boats, Unusual Finally, in Glen Cove, an eastern Add in the need to ‘go green’ in an in-

Cooperation.”). Still further down suburb of New York City, a new ferry creasingly intolerant regulatory climate, the coast, along the Outer Banks, the terminal, part of a waterfront redevel- and the recipe for a sustained robust

North Carolina Department of Trans- opment effort, sits idle while the city business climate is almost complete.

portation has been looking to imple- seeks an operator. Previous efforts to If even just a few of these visions ment a new service that would provide link this community with Wall Street, become reality, certainly it will bode a seasonal link between Hatteras Island or midtown, have failed. When not well for OEM’s, engine manufactur- and Ocracoke Island (with an aim of subsidized, the ferries are often too ers, shipbuilders and mariners alike. reducing automobile traf