
Dick Coose
175:33 - 176:02
"we had the big contract go out and looking for partners and it was going to be a floating dock off of both 1 and 2. And what it did is it gave them easier access to the dock and it also gave us more space on the dock because we don't have enough space down there for all the buses and vans right now."
“we had the big contract go out and looking for partners and it was going to be a floating dock off of both 1 and 2. And what it did is it gave them easier access to the dock and it also gave us more space on the dock because we don't have enough space down there for all the buses and vans right now.”
- Speaker
- Dick Coose
- Timestamp
- 175:33 – 176:02
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Ketchikan
- Captured at
- June 5, 2026
From the transcript
Dick? Yeah, I can. When was it, Bob, that we had the big contract go out and looking for partners and it was going to be a floating dock off of both 1 and 2. And what it did is it gave them easier access to the dock and it also gave us more space on the dock because we don't have enough space down there for all the buses and vans right now. But we got to get that those ramps off the dock.
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