Traffic & Transit
Ferries Take 4000 John Denver-Singing Scouts To Liberty Harbor
The trip, dubbed "Operation Scout Lift," would have taken about 100 buses to accomplish, NY Waterway stated.
HUDSON COUNTY, NJ — They came through Hudson County singing a John Denver song.
Earlier this week, NY Waterway ferries transported 4,000 Scouts from the Brookfield Place/Battery Park City Terminal in Manhattan to the Liberty Harbor Ferry Terminal in Jersey City.
The trip, dubbed “Operation Scout Lift,” would have taken about 100 buses to accomplish, NY Waterway stated.
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The Scouts, who hailed from the United Kingdom, spent a weekend in New York City on their way to the World Jamboree, a gathering of 40,000 Scouts from 152 countries in Beckley, West Virginia.
As they disembarked from ferries in Jersey City, the Scouts sung John Denver’s "Take Me Home, Country Roads," a tune about "going home" to West Virginia.
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