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Kitsap Transit secures most of funding needed for ferry replacement
The local agency that operates passenger ferries between the Kitsap Peninsula and downtown Seattle will receive $13.5 million in federal funding to replace an older vessel with mechanical problems.
Kitsap Transit and U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell’s office announced the grant award this week and said the money would cover nearly 80% of the replacement ferry’s total cost.
“This funding allows us to buy a new boat to operate a route that has been running with a backup vessel – M/V Finest – that is older and has had to go out of service repeatedly for multiple issues,” the John Clauson, Kitsap Transit’s executive director said in a statement.
The new boat will serve the Kingston-Seattle route. Clauson noted Kitsap Transit suspended sailings on the route for five days in August because it didn’t have a working spare vessel.
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/kitsap-transit-secures-most-of-funding-needed-for-ferry-replacement/