Entries from Cascadia Prospectus tagged with 'passenger-only ferries'


Puget Sound Foot Ferries, New And Old, Find Home In Bay Area

One of the best ways to get around metropolitan regions without a car....is on the water. And you need not own a boat yourself. In the San Francisco Bay Area, there's an extensive network of passenger-only ferries - they carry...

Low-wake Passenger-only Ferry Plans Advance In Kitsap

The Kitsap Sun has the scoop on plans for a pilot project to build, and test with riders, a prototype passenger-only ferry for Puget Sound. The Sun's editorial board sums things up thusly: If all goes as planned, work will...

Hot Rod Foot Ferry Wows In Seattle Demo

Last week's fast foot ferry demo and regional foot ferry discussion forum in Seattle, organized by Cascadia Center, stoked the fires again. KOMO 4 TV, The Kitsap Sun and The Peninsula Daily News all weighed in with coverage. Participants came...

Washington Legislature Advances Tolling For Puget Sound

In its election year "short session" concluded last week, the Washington state legislature took several important, albeit partial steps to advance tolling, commuter rail, passenger-only ferries and innovative transportation funding partnerships with non-government entities. Let's review some key '08 transportation...

Temporary Foot Ferry Service Begins From Seattle To Port Townsend

The Seattle Times reports the retiring of four badly-deteriorated, 1927-vintage Steel Electric Class car ferries by Washington State Ferries has prompted not only a shifting of state ferry project funds to pay for three replacement vessels, but also temporary passenger-only...

King County To Launch New Passenger-Only Ferry Plan

The Seattle region is blessed with a tremendous natural endowment which doubles as a crucial piece of transportation infrastructure - Puget Sound. State and Pierce County car ferries already ply the Sound, as do a mix of public and commercial,...



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