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In 2015, Kitsap Transit drafted a business plan for a "fast ferry" system serving Bremerton, Kingston, and Southworth from Seattle, funded by a local sales tax and fares. [54] The Kitsap Transit board voted in April 2016 to place a 0.3 percent sales tax on the November 2016 ballot that would fund a three-route passenger-only ferry system to ...
The Seattle–Bremerton ferry is a ferry route across Puget Sound between Seattle and Bremerton, Washington. Since 1951, the route has primarily been operated by the state-run Washington State Ferries system, currently the largest ferry system in the United States. Kitsap Transit also runs passenger-only "fast ferries" service on the route.
The ferry system carried a total of 18.66 million riders in 2023—9.69 million passengers and 8.97 million vehicles. [3] WSF is the largest ferry system in the United States and the second-largest vehicular ferry system in the world behind BC Ferries. [4] The state ferries carried an average of 59,900 per weekday in the third quarter of 2024. [1]
The ferry will resume is regular weekday schedule on Friday. The Bremerton, Seattle ferry schedule remains on a one-boat schedule, and the holiday sailings will not change from the current weekday ...
The transportation budget provided a second chance for Nance’s House Bill 2497 to create a ferry system work group, called WSF75, and conduct an economic impact study of ferry cancellations and ...
The new Kitsap Fast Ferries service began operation on July 10, 2017, traveling 28 minutes between Bremerton and Seattle. [9] A second fast ferry route, connecting Kingston to Seattle, began operating in November 2018. [10] In 2002, Kitsap Transit purchased Horluck Transportation, the operators of a foot ferry from Bremerton to Port Orchard and ...
It also operates Kitsap Fast Ferries from Seattle to Bremerton, Kingston, and Southworth. [15] The small Jetty Island Ferry runs the short distance between the Everett Marina and the man made, unpopulated Jetty Island in the summer months for tourists. The Lady of the Lake ferry runs year-round from Chelan to Stehekin on Lake Chelan. [16]
The state ferry system was established in 1951 by acquiring the domestic operations of the Puget Sound Navigation Company, which included the Seattle–Bremerton ferry, notably served by the MV Kalakala (built in 1935). [38] [39] PSH 21 was replaced by SR 3 in the 1964 state highway renumbering, while the Bremerton branch became SR 304. [40]