Thanks to the record number of riders who used our service to avoid driving downtown during the recent one-week closure of the Alaskan Way Viaduct. We avoided “Via-doom,” in part, because the Water Taxi carried more than 32,000 riders over the ten days of the viaduct closure, which ended May 8. That compares to about 13,500 riders the…
Last month, we hosted an inter-agency drill for emergency evacuation on the water. Last week, the Water Taxi was host once again for a large-scale exercise in responding to a maritime threat onboard a vessel in our region. The King County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team conducted the underway exercise in Puget Sound aboard the Sally Fox.…
There is a reason for the faint whiff of fried chicken or french fries while waiting to board the Water Taxi. It’s not from the ship’s galley. It comes from the used cooking oil mixed in the fuel. We take seriously the goals in our King County Strategic Climate Action Plan, which sets ambitious targets to…
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