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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. I took a $6.50 ferry to a beautiful nature-filled island near Seattle.
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 ...
Operating funds for the ferry system, reliant on gas taxes raised by the state, were left out of the 1989 budget because of a dispute in the state government. As a result, the MV Tyee and two additional passenger-only ferries intended to serve Vashon Island were pulled from service in June 1989. [7]
It is operated by WSDOT and was the first ferry operated by the state of Washington. [8] The Guemes Island ferry from Anacortes 5 minutes north to Guemes Island is operated by Skagit County, Washington. [9] Wahkiakum County operates the Wahkiakum County Ferry between Puget Island, Washington and Westport, Oregon on the lower Columbia River.
The Cathlamet was built in 1981, as an Issaquah-class ferry, [3] for service on the Mukilteo-Clinton route. In 1991, in order to keep up with growing demand, the Cathlamet, along with many of her sister ships were upgraded from Issaquah class to Issaquah 130-class ferries, by adding additional vehicle areas above the vehicle areas along the outside edge of the ferry.
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.
History; Name: MV Issaquah: Owner: WSDOT: Operator: Washington State Ferries: Port of registry: Seattle, Washington, United States: Route: Fauntleroy- Vashon Island ...
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.