text: Mr Gruening really ought to provide facts and figures as regards his contention that freight costs into/out of  Juneau could drop and fresh fish shipment out could be part of that. Pieces of the EIS speculate that trucking fresh fish out to yet undeveloped markets could result in reduced freight costs. could, could, could.
   Barges and air take millions of pounds out already, all over Southeast. The fish going south on the barges - refrigerated, frozen, and canned -is figured to reduce freight costs for everything overall by something like 10% as it means they aren't traveling so empty.  And the barges already provide a significant cost savings  to air freight  with almost zero chance of interruption .
  Mr Gruening insults his neighbors here in Juneau as well as our Southeast neighbors  with this diatribe. We do not need this silly road. We need decent ferry service  and good barge service with regular air service. It fits the area .