Talk:Kitsap Fast Ferries
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An interesting feature of the catamaran ferry is that it produces less wake at higher speeds, opposite of the existing ferry fleet. 38 knots through Rich Passage is extraordinary: in the last iteration of "fast" ferry service, theTyee was restricted to 12 kt there and theChinook (catamaran) caused lawsuits when running at 34 kt[1]. I'm struggling with introducing this to the article withoutWP:OR, however. -Bri (talk)17:43, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The article says "In 2023, the system had a ridership of 1,091,400, or about 40,800 per weekday as of the first quarter of 2024".
That doesn't make sense. 40800 riders per weekday would reach a total of a million riders in 27 days, which is not consistent with an annual ridership of a million.
Looking at the report that is cited for the 40800 number it lists nearly 70000 daily riders of Kitsap Transit buses, and another 10000 for Kitsap Transit vanpool and demand response rides, which gives a total Kitsap Transit weekday ridership of 120 000 which is 43% of the population of Kitsap county and is clearly absurd.
Looking at the bus numbers, the Wikipedia article on Kitsap Transit says 8000 daily, which is an order of magnitude less. That cites a report from Kitsap Transit. If the 40800 number for ferries is also off by an order of magnitude it would then be consistent with the yearly ridership. That would being the total daily Kitsap Transit ridership to around 4% of the Kitsap population which is believable.
I have not found a source for daily Kitsap ferry rides, so am deleting the daily ride numbers.Tim.the.bastard (talk)11:24, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
