New rider alerts, new Sunday bus service, new ridership records and a new training facility.

Kitsap Transit’s passenger-only ferries carried a record 1.22 million riders in 2024, 12% more than the previous year. Systemwide, Kitsap Transit’s ferry services maintained 99% reliability and 97% on-time performance in 2024.

Learn about the barriers facing nondrivers by challenging yourself to get around for an entire week without driving a car.

Kitsap Transit will receive $1.2 million for the design of an all-electric, zero-emission fast ferry demonstration vessel and its shoreside charging infrastructure.

Changes include bus trip additions, minor timepoint adjustments, and the switch to our winter ferry schedules.

Fast ferry service on the Kingston-Seattle and Southworth-Seattle routes will operate without spare vessels until further notice.

Kitsap Transit published the final Ferry Maintenance Facility Siting Study in June 2024 — moving us closer to constructing a dedicated ferry maintenance facility.

A public comment period will be open from May 18 to July 2.

This month, we’ve got updates on proposed bus service changes in Silverdale, late-night fast ferry sailings to Seattle (with a new boat!) and thank-yous for our ferry crews.

Last year, our ferry crews responded to an unprecedented number of significant safety events. We want to recognize 13 crew members who stepped up in these instances and helped resolve potentially dangerous situations.

M/V Solano, the 10th vessel in Kitsap Transit’s fleet, started operations on the Kingston-Seattle route earlier this month, a little over three years since the agency bought it from San Francisco Bay Ferry.

Saturday sailings to Seattle run through September 28.

We love list season as much as the next mid-sized transit agency. Read on for our top stories of 2023.

Learn more about our Marine Maintenance Facility project, read through our StoryMap, and take a quick survey to help shape the future of Kitsap Transit’s ferry program.

Surveyors will be aboard Kitsap Transit buses and ferries this week, asking riders to fill out a short survey.

Washington State Ferries’ Bainbridge-Seattle route will be reduced to a one-boat schedule Sept. 7-13 while crews install a new walkway.

You asked, we answered!

The 1990s were a time of growth and expansion for Kitsap Transit, before a statewide measure gutted nearly a third of the agency’s budget, forcing layoffs and service cuts.

To support the MLB All-Star Game in Seattle next month, Kitsap Transit will waive fares on its buses and ferries.

Enjoy all-day Saturday sailings to downtown Seattle from Bremerton, Kingston and Southworth.