Kitsap Transit will drop weekday Bremerton–Seattle fast ferry service by roughly one-third after Aug.
A 30-minute foot ferry is not a luxury substitute for a car ferry.
The $2.9 million bought frequency on a passenger route that moves people without cars into downtown Seattle in half an hour.
Recent reliability on the Bremerton auto route has been strong.
It does mean the product is shifting back toward a classic peak-only ferry rather than an all-day urban transit line.
Temporary state funding ends for extra Bremerton–Seattle passenger sailings, dropping weekday round trips from 20 to 13 and opening a long mid-day service gap.