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Time is running out! H.B. 1923 in WA Senate would allow fast ferry routes!

The Mosquito Fleet Act would allow Grays Harbor and the seaside communities around the widest definition of Puget Sound -- including Bellingham and the San Juans -- to create "passenger-only ferry service districts" with the power to tax, charge fares, hire employees, buy or lease boats, and/or contract expert operators of a passenger-only ferry system. In the bill's 2025 hearing in the House Transportation Committee, dozens and dozens of witnesses advocated for the potential for new passenger-only routes, using smaller, faster foot ferries to make connections between communities that WSF will likely never serve, such as new small ferry services that might connect: The San Juan Islands and Bellingham Everett and Langley, and Oak Harbor Everett and Port Townsend Port Townsend and Port Ludlow, and Seattle Des Moines and Vashon Island Des Moines and Olympia many more routes where the economics, including rider demand, make sense This bill sailed through the Washington State House of Representatives with bipartisan support. Next step now is the Washington State Senate Transportation Committee, where the bill died last year. To read more, and see the list of 19 Washington State Senators who sit on the Senate Transportation Committee, click here: https://cnl3.com/h-b-1923-mosquito-fleet-a...