No action planned by Washington County on Fredericktown ferry
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Washington County Commission Chairman Larry Maggi said he has had no written communication from his counterpart in Fayette County about the fate of the Fredericktown ferry, so even though his three-person board is meeting tomorrow, no action on the matter will be taken.
“We’ll wait and see what they do and we’ll make our decision after that,” Maggi said Wednesday following the Washington County commissioners’ agenda meeting.
“They run that through the Fayette County planning department. We pay a small portion through liquid fuels money,” Maggi said.
Maggi said he has taken both a motorcycle and car across the Monongahela River and he has attended the annual festival, which had to be postponed last year because the ferry was in dry dock while it was being repaired last summer.
Fayette County commissioners plan to vote on the ferry’s fate at their May 23 meeting. Ridership is down since the Bakewell Bridge opened in July on the Mon-Fayette Expressway.
Read more in Thursday’s Observer-Reporter.