Washington State Route 339

The Washington State Route 339 (SR 339 ) is a 15.8 km long highway as classified waterway in the U.S. state of Washington, the Vashon Iceland with the center of Seattle. This highway is defined by the law of the State of Washington as a distance between the ferry terminal in Seattle and Vashon Iceland and is operated as Personenfährverbindung, with up to ten bicycles can be taken. The route is served by the system of the Washington State Ferries.

Route description

The complete course of State Route 339 is in the Puget Sound and within King County. It is operated by the motor vessel Kalama. The specific only for passenger ferry leaves the ferry terminal of Vashon Vashon Heights on Iceland in the north. The route leads past Blake Iceland before the course aligns itself more to the east and Alki Point happens. After an approximately 35 -minute crossing makes the ship at Pier 50 is to the south of Coleman docks where the rest of the WSF ferries has its moorings.

The Kalama wrong with a maximum speed of 25 knots ( 46.3 km / h ). The ship has a capacity of 250 passengers, a length of 34.2 m and a width of 7.6 m. She is powered by four diesel engines with a total power of 2840 hp. The draft is almost 2.5 m .. The ferry operates from Monday to Friday, three times daily in each direction on weekends rest of the traffic.

Operation

Ferries to and from Vashon Iceland existed for many decades, the government of the state took over the operation on 1 June 1951. Kalama The ferry was built in 1989 and 1994, the line was defined as a State Route.

The average daily ridership was 827 persons in 2003., 1999, when the connection was operated on Saturdays, the daily passenger number was 1015 people.

Washington State Ferries operates and maintains the Kalama until July 2009, when the responsibility for the operation by the King County will be accepted. Even now, the connection is no longer supported with federal funds.