{"id":2395,"date":"2023-03-03T16:33:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T16:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2023-03-31T16:08:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:08:49","slug":"upcoming-service-changes-for-washington-state-ferries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/upcoming-service-changes-for-washington-state-ferries\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming service changes for Washington State Ferries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/washington-state-ferries\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2752\">Washington State Ferries<\/a> (WSF) has announced upcoming service changes for some routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Most notably, the <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wa\/edmonds-kingston\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"245\">Edmonds &#8211; Kingston Ferry<\/a> service has been fully restored after achieving at least 95% reliability over three consecutive weeks. It is the fourth ferry service to be fully restored. It joins the <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wa\/anacortes-san-juan-islands\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"16\">Anacortes &#8211; San Juan Islands Ferry<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wa\/bainbridge-island-seattle\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"223\">Bainbridge Ferry<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wa\/mukilteo-clinton\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"263\">Mukilteo &#8211; Clinton Ferry<\/a> as the other three routes to have been fully restored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a vessel and crew becomes available, WSF plans to trial weekday three-boat service on the <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wa\/fauntleroy-southworth\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"252\">Fauntleroy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wa\/fauntleroy-vashon\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"257\">Vashon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wa\/southworth-vashon\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"275\">Southworth ferry<\/a> routes. They expect the trial to take place in early April with fully restored weekday service by the end of May 2023 and return to a full weekly sailing schedule by fall 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wa\/bremerton-seattle\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"241\">Bremerton Ferry<\/a> is expected to return to full service in October 2023 when crewing becomes available. Until then, WSF will add more morning and midday trips depending on crew and vessel availability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wa\/port-townsend-coupeville\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"271\">Port Townsend &#8211; Coupeville ferry<\/a> will trial full, two-boat service starting in Spring 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, the Anacortes &#8211; Sidney, B.C. ferry will be on hiatus for an extended period of time. WSF doesn&#8217;t expect to restore this service any sooner than Spring 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington State Ferries (WSF) has announced upcoming service changes for some routes.<\/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\/2395"}],"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=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions\/2795"}],"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=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:4097\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}