This post originally appeared on Orphan Road.
Brian at WATB (hmm… not sure that’s the best acronym…) has been doing some great analysis of the state ferry system of late, epecially this latest post, which lays out some ambitious ideas for improving each of the individual runs. Given the sorry state of ferry funding, I wouldn’t count on any of these changes happening before light rail gets to Issaquah (which is to say, this century), but they’re still great ideas, worthy of the “nation’s largest passenger ferry system.”
That said, at some point, maybe within the next 50 years, it occurs to me that we’ll have all but built out to the urban growth boundary in the Seattle metro area. At that point, there might be no alternative but to develop the peninsula… and the ferries.