Theyre like buses on water: ferries that carry passengers and bicycles but no cars from Vashon Island and Bremerton to downtown Seattle and back. But all of them lose money. They continue to operate only with a heavy subsidy from the state, or in the case of Bremerton-Seattle, a private operator who is eating his losses. The private foot ferry that once served riders from Kingston, Kitsap County, to Seattle no longer exists because it was bleeding so much green. And now, some members of the Legislature want to get out of the passenger-only ferry business entirely and hand off the last of the state-operated runs Vashon to Seattle to King or Kitsap County. Read More ›