{"id":2341,"date":"2023-02-21T15:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T15:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2023-03-31T16:07:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:07:59","slug":"washington-state-ferries-service-reliability-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/washington-state-ferries-service-reliability-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington State Ferries Service Reliability Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Washington State Ferries<\/a> (WSF) continues working hard to restore ferry<\/a> service capacity and reliability to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels. In order to do so, they need adequate staffing and a reliable fleet that can meet the increasing demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Target Staffing Levels<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to their latest progress report<\/a>, WSF ended 2022 with a net gain of 92 employees, 61 of whom are new fleet employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In total in 2022, they hired 233 new employees while 141 employees left due to retirement or other reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, even with the net increase in employees in 2022, they are currently operating at 91%, or 102 employees short, of their target staffing levels. They need 1,148 fleet employees, but currently employ 1,046. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ferry Service Restoration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For a ferry route to be considered fully restored, WSF needs to see reliability on that route operate at 95% or above for three consecutive weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Edmonds – Kingston Ferry<\/a> route should be considered fully restored very soon. It achieved 99% reliability over the past two weeks. However, a bent propeller on MV Puyallup<\/a> early in the route’s trial period disrupted service and prevented the route from having a 95% reliability score across three consecutive weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full restoration of the Bremerton – Seattle Ferry<\/a> and Port Townsend – Coupeville Ferry<\/a> routes is dependent on staffing and the number of new mates who complete their training in spring 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Anacortes – San Juan Islands Ferry<\/a>, Bainbridge Island – Seattle Ferry<\/a>, Mukilteo – Clinton Ferry<\/a>, and Point Defiance – Tahlequah Ferry<\/a> routes are all running at greater than 95% reliability. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington State Ferries (WSF) continues working hard to restore ferry service capacity and reliability to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels. In order to do so, they need adequate staffing and a reliable fleet that can meet the increasing demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2792,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/2792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}