||| FROM NICOLE MCINTOSH for WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES |||
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I’m thankful to all who followed statewide restrictions to limit travel over Thanksgiving weekend. We had just under 175,000 riders from Wednesday through Sunday. That’s roughly half of the 340,000 people we carried during the same time frame last year. We had the biggest year-to-year drop on Thanksgiving Day, going from 77,000 customers in 2019 to 27,000 this year. Wednesday was our busiest day with 41,000 riders, which is much less than our pandemic daily high of more than 64,000 on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, Sept. 5.
Thank you to all my colleagues who worked over Thanksgiving
weekend to maintain our vital transportation service during this pandemic.
As a reminder, some routes are still operating on modified schedules dependent on our COVID Response Service Plan. If you must catch a ferry right now, I suggest signing up for our email alerts, checking terminal conditions and reading our COVID-19 travel updates. Please wear a mask when approaching a toll booth or anytime outside of your vehicle as one is required aboard our vessels and throughout our terminals in compliance with the state’s health order to help keep people safe.
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