State Ferries’ Budget Problems Worry Island Schools
For the past 13 years that he has worked in the Vashon Island school district in Washington state, Monte L. Bridges has taken a ferry to work.
Every morning, Mr. Bridges—who has served as superintendent for the past five years—drives from his Seattle home, parks on the ferry, and arrives at the north end of the island 20 minutes later. He calculates that he has completed roughly 13,000 ferry trips during his entire tenure in the district.
To many of the island’s residents and workers, the ferry is not just a Puget Sound excursion, it’s a daily necessity. So with cuts in service looming as early as June that are blamed on passage of the state’s Initiative 695 last November, residents of the Vashon Island district and other Puget Sound...
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