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In 1951, Washington State bought out PSNC and took over the ferry system. The state paid $500,000 for the ferry terminal at Colman Dock. [6] Work on the present terminal began a decade later; there have been several reconfigurations and modernizations since. [3] The very month that the state ferry terminal opened, it was the subject of another ...
A 1918 map by the Port of Seattle Commission indicates this as property of the Port: "Port Commission, W. Seattle Ferry Landing". [11] 3 Wheat Elevators and Warehouses Seattle Terminal and Railway Elevator Co. circa 1891. by 1891, [12] possibly earlier [6] after 1950 [13] multiple piers
Average traffic volumes on the highway in 2016 ranged from a minimum of 1,100 vehicles at the Bremerton ferry terminal to a maximum of 30,000 vehicles at the SR 3 interchange. [21] The Seattle–Bremerton route operated by Washington State Ferries carried 2.46 million total passengers in 2019, including over 650,000 vehicles. [22]
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.
[14] [15] Ferry routes were incorporated into the state highway system in 1994, as SR 304 and SR 305 were extended to Seattle and SR 339 was created. [16] WSDOT completed their South Seattle Intermodal Access Project in May 2010, which improved SR 519 and the western terminus of I-90 to better handle freight traffic heading to the Port of Seattle.
Fishnish (Scottish Gaelic: Finnsinis) is a ferry terminal on the Isle of Mull, roughly halfway between Tobermory and Craignure. It is owned and operated by Caledonian MacBrayne . It is served by the ferry that crosses the Sound of Mull to and from Lochaline .
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In 1913, the Port of Seattle built for service on Lake Washington, the large steel-hulled sidewheel ferry Leschi (433 tons, 169' long, 33' foot beam, 8.3' draft). She was fast (14 knots) and in April 1913, she was placed on the run between Leschi Park, Medina and Bellevue. Leschi was the first publicly