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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.
Washington State Ferry Tacoma The Hyak in Rich Passage heading to Bremerton, WA The MV Chimacum arrives in Seattle for the first time with passengers on board, on May 24, 2017. MV Puyallup departing Seattle with the skyline. As of 2020, there are 21 ferries in the WSF fleet that serve Puget Sound. [24]
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]
The Washington State Ferry Chimacum leaves the Bremerton ferry dock and heads for Seattle in February. The Chimacum is part of the Olympic class of WSF vessels, the last new boats delivered for ...
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.
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 ...
The MV Hyak is a Super-class ferry that was operated by Washington State Ferries. Built in 1966 at the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company shipyard in San Diego, the ferry began service on July 20, 1967, and normally ran on the Seattle–Bremerton route or the Anacortes–San Juan Islands run. Hyak is Chinook Jargon for "speedy". [1]