Bremerton Ferry Service Faces Cuts
By Admin
A Kitsap Sun article reported that the impending budget cuts will probably affect the state ferry service to Bremerton.
“It is likely that there are further cuts in our future,” said David Moseley, Washington State Ferries assistant secretary.
Thursday evening, Moseley told a Bremerton audience of about 25 that the system’s current financial struggles are not new and are unlikely to go away soon.
Without a dedicated funding source, the ferry system is not sustainable, he repeated more than once during a community meeting at the Kitsap Conference Center.
Legislators and city leaders were also on hand and vowed that the governor’s budget proposal to eliminate a midday Bremerton-Seattle route and any run past 9:05 p.m. won’t stand.
State Sen. Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor, said that reducing a community’s ability to thrive economically as the ferry run cuts would do seemed “ill-advised, to be kind.”
State Rep. Larry Seaquist, D-Gig Harbor, said that locals who rely on the ferries will need to come up with solutions that would prevent the service cuts. He also said the transportation cuts are being distributed unfairly.
“No one else in this state is seeing their highways cut down,” he said. “I do not believe we have to accept service cuts.”
Read more: http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/dec/16/bad-ferry-news-doesnt-mean-that-bremerton-will/#ixzz18P2XeonA
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