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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.
Later that year, on September 28, 2009, the Vashon Island/Downtown Seattle route was transferred from Washington State Ferries and became the second King County Water Taxi Route. [15] King County Ferry District leased the catamaran MV Melissa Ann from Four Seasons Marine Services to operate the Vashon Island route. In addition to being more ...
Ferries have provided transportation to and from Vashon Island since the days of the Seattle Mosquito Fleet, but the state government took over the operation of the Vashon Island ferry on June 1, 1951. [7] The MV Skagit was built in 1989, [5] and the ferry began service on the Seattle–Vashon Island route on April 23, 1990. [8]
Fauntleroy- Vashon Island- Southworth (as of 30 September 2017) ... Cost: $36,000,000; ... MV Issaquah is an Issaquah-class ferry operated by Washington State Ferries.
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 44,700 per weekday in the fourth quarter of 2024. [1]
The boat began operating on the Vashon route in April 2015, replacing two leased boats. [5] The vessel was named for Sally Fox, a Vashon Island activist who fought for passenger ferry service to the island. [6] It is the sister ship of the MV Doc Maynard, which entered service in 2016. [7]
The Point Defiance–Tahlequah ferry is a ferry route across Puget Sound between the Point Defiance ferry terminal in Tacoma and Tahlequah, Washington, on the southern tip of Vashon Island. 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.
From 2004 to April 2007, a private company, the Kitsap Ferry Co., provided passenger-only ferry service between Bremerton and Seattle, during weekday commute times. The service was canceled due to high costs and lack of support from Kitsap Transit, whose district voters failed to pass a sales tax increase for the foot ferry.