They have to take the car ferry to Fauntleroy in West Seattle and catch a bus to downtown. The new group would schedule more sailings, Maas said. It could be an efficient form of transportation and keep more cars off the road in congested Seattle. The group is asking for help from the Legislature this session. It needs state approval that this is an appropriate King County vote, Maas said.
Money is needed to keep the ferry going until the new system can get plugged in.
The group is also interested in Kitsap Transit's attempt to put together a public-private partnership to run passenger boats from Kitsap County. The nonprofit approach is cleaner, it believes, because it doesn't cut across county lines or rely on increased sales tax. Rather than bitching and moaning about it, we set down to find a solution to solve it. Two passenger-only ferries and a terminal to house them was within a couple months of being built. Every 45 minutes, one would sail from South Kitsap to downtown Seattle.