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The chartered passenger service was designed with apparently little coordination with destination communities.

One sailing to Haines was added to accommodate lawmakers traveling to Juneau for the session, but the plan left Skagway high and dry.

The measure would add the Legislature’s to a growing chorus of voices calling for federal action but would not carry the force of law.

Aside from the ferry Lituya, which shuttles between Ketchikan and Metlakatla, the entire Alaska Marine Highway System fleet will be idle until March.