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News Release - Kitsap Transit Grant for buying new fast ferry to operate Kingston/Seattle route BREMERTON, Wash. – Kitsap Transit (KT) will receive $13.5 million in federal funding to buy a new fast ferry that would replace an older vessel operating the Kingston/Seattle route, improving the Kingston Fast Ferry service’s reliability.The federal funding comes from the Federal Transit Administration’s Passenger Ferry Grant program and covers nearly 80 percent of the project’s $17.5 million cost. Kitsap Transit is contributing about $4 million in local dollars to the project.“This funding allows us to buy a new boat to operate a route that has been running with...

Reposted from Nathan Pilling - Kitsap Sun BREMERTON – Kitsap Transit will offer several new round-trip sailings, including some on Saturdays, on its Bremerton-Seattle route for the coming months. Beginning Thursday, those sailings will help to cover gaps in Washington State Ferries’ schedule on its Bremerton-Seattle route, created when the state agency cut ferry service in half in September 2021. Funding for the added sailings will come via the state. On weekdays, Kitsap Transit will add four morning round trips and three evening round trips. The last round trip sailing of the day will depart Bremerton at 9 p.m. and then...

Nathan Pilling, Kitsap Sun BREMERTON – Restored Washington State Ferries service in Bremerton appears to yet be months away. Could Kitsap Transit help to fill some of the gaps in the sailing schedule with added fast ferry service? A collection of officials in Kitsap are making a pitch. The state's Bremerton-Seattle route has operated on a limited schedule with only one boat assigned to the crossing for about a year. Washington State Ferries has pointed to staffing shortages and has reported that the route won’t likely be restored to regular service until spring 2023. Local officials – including the...

The Kitsap Economic Development Alliance provides this letter of support for the proposal to fund temporary passenger only ferry service between Bremerton and Seattle, helping mitigate the economic harm coming from longstanding reductions in service on the route by the Washington State Ferry system.  With the economic health of so many on both sides of the water affected, we believe this solution from Kitsap Transit will add to the resiliency of the region's economy. It will also greatly improve economic equity and inclusion in terms of low-income and traditionally underserved populations, who will once again be able to more...