{"id":57131,"date":"2018-01-22T04:38:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T04:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=57131"},"modified":"2018-01-22T04:38:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T04:38:24","slug":"washington-state-ferry-ridership-continued-grow-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/washington-state-ferry-ridership-continued-grow-2017.html","title":{"rendered":"Washington state ferry ridership continued to grow in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Washington state ferry ridership continued to grow in 2017<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Officials say ridership on Washington state ferry routes reached a 15-year high in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The Kitsap Sun reports state ferries in Washington carried 10.6 million vehicles and 13.8 million passengers last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Washington State Ferries Director Amy Scarton says she anticipates ridership to continue to grow as more people move to Western Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Bainbridge and Bremerton routes both grew by about 1.5 percent, while Kingston&#8217;s run inched up by about half a percentage point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The Bainbridge-Seattle ferry run remained the system&#8217;s busiest in 2017, hauling 6.5 million riders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/washington-state-ferry-ridership-continued-to-grow-in-2017<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/washington-state-ferry-ridership-continued-grow-2017.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington state ferry ridership continued to grow in 2017 Officials say ridership on Washington state ferry routes reached a 15-year high in 2017. The Kitsap Sun reports state ferries in Washington carried 10.6 million vehicles and 13.8 million passengers last year. Washington State Ferries Director Amy Scarton says she anticipates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[115842],"class_list":["post-57131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-washington-state-ferry-ridership-continued-to-grow-in-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}