The curious photo hanging in Kingston’s Axe Handle Café shows the ferry Nisqually after being T-boned on July 27, 1963, at 6:53 a.m., seven minutes out of Kingston.
Twenty-five Kingston-ians met in a stuffy community center June 10 to confer with David Moseley about the state of the state ferries. Here’s some highlights:
With an out-of-the-blue retirement of our four “Steel Electric” boats on Thanksgiving weekend 2007, WSF capital spending became all about building replacements.
Neither rain nor storm kept 16 courageous Kingstonians from a December meeting with WSF.
Just when I “get it” about ferry financials, they do something else to mess with my mind.
Here’s a humble attempt at a timeline of Kingston’s passenger ferry history. Please let me know where I may have not gotten it right
On June 5, we will have a public meeting with Washington State Ferries in the Community Center at 6:30 p.m.
When to evacuate because of fire or collision, and other cruise safety rules.
With all the thrashing about cutting ferry service, I figured that I’d pour myself a drink and explain what little I know.
This fall, Washington State Ferries executive staff will once again be visiting our area. Let’s hope our legislators and county commissioners will be there to hear what we think. It is the legislators who actually set our ferry fares by not adequately subsidizing ferry-operating costs in the Transportation Budget.
The first of October has come and gone and those of us who are regular riders went to the toll booth on Sept. 30 and purchased 90 days worth of tickets to delay paying the tariff increase and the 25-cent new ferry surcharge until we absolutely must.
