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MV Chetzemoka ("The Chetzy") is a Kwa-di Tabil-class ferry built at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, Washington for the Washington State Ferries.It was scheduled to start on the Port Townsend-Coupeville [note 1] route in September 2010, but sea trials revealed excessive vibrations in the vessel's propulsion system. [5]
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]
State Route 339 (SR 339) is a 8.5-nautical-mile-long (9.8 mi; 15.7 km) [1] state highway in the U.S. state of Washington.It is designated on a former state-run ferry route that connected Vashon Island's Vashon Heights ferry terminal to downtown Seattle's Pier 50, via a passenger-only ferry, the MV Skagit.
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, which means it's time for turkey, football, food comas and figuring out the ferry schedule. And, according to Washington State Ferries, an estimated 300,000 ...
I paid $6.50 to take a ferry to Vashon Island, which is in the Seattle area, for a short trip to a llama farm. It was worth it. I took a $6.50 ferry to a beautiful nature-filled island near Seattle.
The interior of the 2019 Pier 50 passenger ferry terminal. A new passenger ferry terminal at Colman Dock opened on August 13, 2019, to serve the King County Water Taxi and Kitsap Fast Ferries at Pier 50. For two years, passenger ferries were diverted to a temporary terminal to the north at Pier 52 while the old dock was demolished. [23]
Before ferries were dominant on Puget Sound, the route was served by passenger and freight-carrying steamboats. The wooden steamship Florence K served the route for the Eagle Harbor Transportation Co., until 1915 when the company put the new steamer Bainbridge on the route, and shifted Florence K to the Seattle–Port Washington route.
Two automobile ferry routes currently depart from Colman Dock: the Seattle–Bainbridge Island ferry and the Seattle–Bremerton ferry. The terminal building can hold 1,900 people and the outdoor queueing area has space for 611 vehicles. [13] Two passenger-only ferry systems, the King County Water Taxi and Kitsap Fast Ferries, operate out of a ...