You can't forecast auto traffic on a proposed new bridge by counting ferry boats.

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Tubby and unlovely, with hard wooden seats, the ferry boats have plied these waters since the late 19th century.

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Conversely, I need to charter a helicopter, three ferry boats and a space shuttle to play a round of golf.

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Turkey has deployed more than 25, 000 security forces and established security perimeters around the summit venue, closing some 200 streets and re-routing commuter ferry boats away from ports near the site.

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The gondolas that would ferry visitors to the boats are tied forlornly to iron brackets on the embankment wall.

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In the city of Pasig -- part of metropolitan Manila -- enterprising residents used inflatable mattresses as makeshift boats to ferry people through flooded streets.

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Life boats were used to ferry people to the ship.

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The commission claimed Eurotunnel, which now runs 16 ferry crossings a day, bought the boats to prevent Danish rival DFDS from picking them up cheaply and driving down prices.

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The ferry is part of a small fleet of diesel-electric boats first launched in 1888.

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Bristol Ferry Boat Company went into administration last year but its five blue and yellow passenger boats were bought by a consortium of investors.

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The local boatmen, called mallahs, were so bemused by Mr Turner's idea that they allowed him to ferry people for free in a very competitive market crowded by hundreds of oared and motor-powered boats of various sizes.

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