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Washington State Ferries (WSF) is a public ferry system in the U.S. state of Washington.It is a division of the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) and operates 10 routes serving 20 terminals within Puget Sound and in the San Juan Islands.
It is operated by WSDOT and was the first ferry operated by the state of Washington. [5] The Guemes Island ferry from Anacortes 5 minutes north to Guemes Island is operated by Skagit County, Washington. [6] Wahkiakum County operates the Wahkiakum County Ferry between Puget Island, Washington and Westport, Oregon on the lower Columbia River.
The Edmonds–Kingston ferry is a ferry route across Puget Sound between Edmonds and Kingston, Washington. Since 1951 the only ferries employed on the route have belonged to the Washington state ferry system, currently the largest ferry system in the United States. The last regularly operated steam ferry on the West Coast of the United States ...
The ferry's crossing time is approximately ten minutes during weekday commute hours and approximately 15 minutes at all other times. [16] As of January 2016, the primary ferry for the route is the MV Doc Maynard. The ferry operates year round, and carried an average of 1,742 passengers during the commute hours in December 2014. [29]
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.
The MV Coho is a passenger and vehicle ferry owned and operated by Black Ball Line. [2] Black Ball's only ferry, Coho carries passengers and cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailers , bicycles, etc. between Victoria , British Columbia , Canada and Port Angeles , Washington , United States.
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 was later taken over by the Puget Sound Navigation Company, later sold to the state government in 1951 to form the WSF. [20] [21] [22] The Mukilteo and Whidbey Island highways were added to the state highway system in 1937 as SSH 1D and SSH 1I, both branches of PSH 1. [23]