Adding a second larger ferry on this route will only make the ferry lines and waits longer. Even now -- with one larger and one smaller ferry -- the Tokitae continually runs late when full, and makes the other boat late as well. Having two larger ferries will only make this worse. I'd believe too that in order to avoid this, they'd have to make the runs every 40 minutes, instead of 30 -- which defeats the idea of having an extra 15-20 vehicles on each ferry. 

People's thinking on this is short-sides and ill informed. For one thing, there were not longer ferry lines this year; I've been here over 25 years and seen summers when the lines were worse, often backing up all the way to near Ken's Corner.