Business Leaders Want to Say: Boat Reservations Are a Mess

By ALEXIS TONTI

The Steamship Authority vehicle reservation system is broken.

That was the take-home message this week at a forum that started as a focused debate about the boat line's new guaranteed standby policy and expanded to a broad indictment of the way the SSA books passengers.

The forum, hosted by the Dukes County Commission, was held Wednesday at the Vineyard Transit Authority administration building.

With a contract that expired more than a year ago and no real end in sight at the bargaining table, tension has begun to escalate between managemen

SSA Management Sets a Course for Collision on Security Measures

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

Turning a deaf ear on the growing uproar among Islanders over a controversial new policy that will bar people from staying in their cars on board ferries, senior managers at the Steamship Authority announced flatly this week that the policy is expected to go into effect sometime later this month.

A week after an array of county officials criticized Steamship Authority governor Kathryn A.

SSA Declines Release of Report on Accident

By JULIA WELLS

Three months after an accident that nearly claimed the life of one of its employees during a routine training exercise, the Steamship Authority is refusing to release the results of its own internal investigation into the mishap.