Washington State Ferries

S R 1 6 0 / F a u n t l e r o y F e r r y Te r m i n a l
Tr e s t l e & Tr a n s f e r S p a n R e p l a c e m e n t
Project

Vi r t u a l C o m m u n i t y M e e t i n g
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Agenda
• Quick poll

• Opening remarks

• Presentation
• Terminal history and project need
• Planning phase timeline
• Community engagement

• Q & A with project team

• Next steps
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How to submit
questions and
comments
• Submit at any time during
the meeting in the chat to
the right

• Q & A will be at the end of

the meeting

• Email FauntleroyTermProj
@wsdot.wa.gov

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How to submit
questions/comments
on the mobile app

• Click the question mark icon

to open the chat feature

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Who does the terminal serve?
• Critical transportation hub connecting 160

people and economy between West

Seattle and Vashon Island, the Kitsap
Peninsula and beyond

• In 2019 alone, more than 3 million

riders used service between
Fauntleroy, Southworth and Vashon
Island
Vessels and crossings
Vashon • Three vessels during
normal schedule
• Three destinations
12.5 min Southworth
(four slips)
Fauntleroy 15 min
• Different crossing
times

22.5 min
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Structural and seismic challenges
Parts of terminal are aging, seismically vulnerable
and due for replacement

Bridge Seat Trestle Bulkhead

Towers

Transfer Span Terminal Building

Regular inspections have

resulted in WSF needing
to replace individual piles

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Rising sea level challenges
• Rising sea levels and
increasing frequency and
intensity of storms in the
future increase damage
to dock from debris
during high tides

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Operational challenges

Fauntleroy Way:
• City of Seattle street Small terminal:

• One lane with mix of Loading operations are

destinations constrained by size of
• Difficult to load single- dock, which only holds Single slip and vessel size:
destination sailings ~80 cars
An Issaquah vessel
• Impacts to through
holds 124 cars,
traffic
significantly more than
the Fauntleroy dock

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Triangle route: 2040 Long Range Plan
recommended actions
• Replace 90-car vessel with 124-car
vessel, resulting in three vessels of
the same 124-car size.
• Future electrification at Fauntleroy,
Vashon, and Southworth terminals.
• Fauntleroy terminal replacement
• Southworth second slip project
programmed for completion by 2026.
• Additional seismic retrofit/preservation
projects at all three terminals planned
in the 2025-2027.
• Add summer and winter service hours
with 124-class vessels.

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Triangle Task Force work ahead
of project launch

Operational New sailing Replace and

improvements at schedule improve
the dock Fauntleroy
Terminal

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What’s next?
• Launching planning phase for
the project, including developing Who participates?
a Planning and Environmental
Linkages (PEL) study in
partnership with the Federal Local,
Highway Administration You! State &
Federal
Agencies
PEL
• Study helps WSF identify
transportation issues,
Tribes,
environmental concerns, Resource
community values and Agencies
economic goals early in project
planning

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Planning phase milestones

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Project timeline and funding

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Community engagement – Goals

• Be transparent

• Define core problems collaboratively

• Provide meaningful and timely opportunities for input

• Include historically underrepresented and/or underserved

populations

• Utilize virtual tools until it is safe to meet in person

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Community engagement – Approach

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Community engagement tools

• Outreach to stakeholders via interviews and briefings

• Partnering with community and social service

organizations to help reach a broader audience

• Convening advisory groups

• Hosting online community meetings (until it's safe to meet

again in person)

• Regularly sharing information on our website, through

email listservs, social media and other outlets

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Advisory groups
WSF will convene three advisory groups to provide input as
WSF develops plans to replace the Fauntleroy Ferry Terminal.

• Executive Leadership Group (ELG)

• Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

• Community Advisory Group (CAG)

The three groups will meet throughout WSF’s approximately

two-year Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) process
for the terminal project.

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Community Advisory Group (CAG)
• The committee is expected to have approximately 20
members.

• The CAG will be comprised of people representing Ferry

Advisory Committees, ferry customers, neighbors,
businesses, advocacy groups, and numerous other interests
from the three communities served by the
Fauntleroy/Vashon/Southworth route.

• WSF anticipates the CAG will meet regularly over next two
years (June 2021 – Spring 2023).

• Members will be recruited via open applications; expect to

see more on your chance to apply in coming weeks!
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Community engagement process

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Reminder: How to ask
questions or share
comments
• Submit at any time in the chat to the right

• In mobile app: Click the question mark icon to

open the chat feature

• Email FauntleroyTermProj@wsdot.wa.gov

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 Next steps
• Project team documenting existing conditions

• Recruitment and launch of advisory groups

• Next round of community meetings this summer

Questions or comments?
FauntleroyTermProj@wsdot.wa.gov

Check out our website:

wsdot.wa.gov/projects/sr160/fauntleroy-terminal

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Adjourn

Thank you!

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Back-pocket slides

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Community Advisory Group –
Selection Criteria
Applications should have a demonstrated ability to:

• Work collaboratively with other CAG members to identify the

best possible alternatives to address the aging terminal

• Be curious about the needs, perspectives and input from the

various interests represented by people in the group,
including all three communities served by the Triangle Route

• Embrace WSDOT’s values

• Be available to prepare for an participate in CAG meetings

between June 2021 – Spring 2021
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 Seismic
• More significant earthquakes may lead to partial collapse

Expected 225-year damage

Expected 475-year damage

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 Ideas we’ve heard from the
community
• Remove the bottleneck; remove tollbooths
• Add a slip at Fauntleroy
• Don’t make everyone stop at the tollbooth
• Move ticketing to Vashon and Southworth
• Widen the dock
• Improve customer communication,
especially along Fauntleroy Way (wait
times, variable signs)
• Be mindful of homes on either side; don’t
widen the dock or impact the community
• Don’t block our view
• Why’s it taking so long? Need
improvements now
• Improve ticketing and processing (prepaid
tickets only, scanner, etc.)
• Make the dock bigger to get cars off the
street
• Improve efficiency at Fauntleroy
• Bring back the bypass lane for pre-ticketed
vehicles
• Add parking
• Separate the lines for Southworth and
Vashon
• Add a traffic signal
• Use Good to Go!
• Put a remote holding area at Lincoln Park
• Move the Fauntleroy terminal (to Lincoln
Park, Harbor Island, etc.)
• Eliminate parking on Fauntleroy Way
• Change the fare structure or eliminate fares
• Add overhead loading
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Advisory Groups
• Community Advisory Committee (CAC)
• Comprised of people representing neighbors, businesses,
advocacy groups, and numerous other interests from the
three communities served by the WSF Triangle Route.
• Creates an environment where participants can share their
experiences, concerns and aspirations with each other and
develop a broader understanding of the needs of all those
that use the Triangle Route to find balanced solutions.

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Advisory Groups
• Executive Leadership Group (ELG)
• Interagency group comprised of local and state appointed
or elected officials, transit agency leadership, federal
partners, and tribes.
• Reviews and evaluates project proposals to ensure that
they align with local and regional policy.

• Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)

• Interagency group comprised of technical staff from
municipal, county, state, and federal transit agencies, as
well as local tribes.
• Reviews the technical implications of any proposals and
the consequences (positive or negative) they may have.

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Operations – ridership, demand
• Fauntleroy/Vashon/Southworth
route:
• 2019 annual ridership:
3,072,648

• 2019 annual vehicles carried:

1,737,158

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Current project funding

2019-2021 2021-2023 2035-2025 2025-2027

Funding $6.786M $3.936M $14.791M $69.339M

Total: $94M

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Adjusted tollbooth operations

• Features
A. 3 employees
– Scanner
– Traffic director
– Splitter
B. Dynamic signs fully used B A
C. Total sales/redemption D C A
D. Police officer directs traffic B
and keeps approach clear
A

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Revised sailing schedule

• Added a third 124 car Issaquah

Class ferry
– Bigger ferry means moving
more people and goods
– Requires more “dwell time” or
more time to fill the boats
• No major schedule changes in 15
years
• New schedule focused on:
– Meeting needs of all three
communities
– Putting capacity where it’s
needed most and improving
reliability

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