(WSB photo: Diesel-powered Water Taxi M/V Sally Fox, as seen Tuesday at Seacrest) You’ve likely heard about Washington State Ferries‘ plan to build electric vessels. Our area’s foot-ferry f...
https://westseattleblog.com/2024/08/electric-water-taxis-metro-gets-grant-to-sail-in-that-direction/
After a day and a half of no or reduced service to West Seattle, and a half-day of reduced service to Vashon Island, the King County Water Taxi is back on its regular schedule this afternoon. Met...
12:45 PM: In our morning traffic/transit roundup, we mentioned that Metro was not running King County Water Taxi service between downtown and West Seattle this morning because of “mechanical”...
https://westseattleblog.com/2024/08/water-taxi-alert-west-seattle-service-still-suspended/
(WSB photo, primary Vashon Water Taxi vessel M/V Sally Fox after its 2015 delivery) The King County Water Taxi‘s Vashon-to-Seattle route has long run only during weekday morning and afternoon/e...
https://westseattleblog.com/2024/06/king-county-water-taxi-expanded-vashon-service-starts-monday/
1:44 PM: Metro has finalized the West Seattle Water Taxi‘s plan for this spring/summer: -Friday/Saturday late-night service resumes April 19 and continues through October 11 (last run from down...
(Friday photo, sent by Carolyn) Last Friday, one of the two main King County Water Taxi vessels went out of service after a small engine fire, as reported here. We asked Metro today about the sta...
(Photo sent by Jonathan) 8:37 AM: Thanks for the tips about the SFD response to the West Seattle Water Taxi dock at Seacrest. SFD says there were “no signs of active fire” so it reduced what ...
https://westseattleblog.com/2024/03/fire-response-at-west-seattle-water-taxi-dock/
(Texted photo, looking toward downtown from Admiral this afternoon) 4:54 PM: Metro wants riders to know: “Thick fog is lingering in Elliott Bay this evening. The King County Water Taxis will be...
https://westseattleblog.com/2023/12/water-taxi-alert-fog-delays-likely-tonight/
Going to Monday night’s Seahawks game? Metro invites you to travel by water: On December 18, 2023, the West Seattle Water Taxi will be running extended service for the Seahawks game against Phi...
2:42 PM: From Metro: “Service for the King County Water Taxi is suspended until further notice as law enforcement responds to an incident at the Water Taxi Terminal at Pier 50.” That’s the ...
https://westseattleblog.com/2023/12/water-taxi-alert-service-suspended-because-of-downtown-incident/
Though the West Seattle Water Taxi was originally scheduled to be out of service tomorrow for the Veterans Day observation, Metro has added late afternoon and evening runs so Sounders FC fans can...
The West Seattle Water Taxi‘s 2 pm run was delayed a bit today, and the explanatory alert was terse: “Crew of the Doc Maynard rescuing a barge that was adrift along the Seattle waterfront.”...
https://westseattleblog.com/2023/11/west-seattle-water-taxi-crew-intercepts-runaway-barge/
They did it for Taylor Swift … for Beyoncé … and now they’re doing it for Coldplay: Adding later West Seattle Water Taxi trips so people going to the sold-out concert can get back here by ...
As we first reported on September 3rd, Metro plans to continue seven-days-a-week West Seattle Water Taxi service through the fall and winter again this year (and beyond). County Executive Dow Con...
Going to see Queen B at Lumen Field on Thursday night? Metro has announced extra West Seattle Water Taxi runs for the Beyoncé concert, as it did when Taylor Swift was in town: The water taxi is ...