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~HEREAS, the Seattle-Bremerton ferry system for many
years was the prime run of the State of Washington ferry
system, and
WHEREAS, the economic welfare of the Bremerton Metropolitan
area of 60,000 people is descendent upon adequate and efficient
service, and
WHEREAS, tixe competing runs of Seattle-Winslow and
Fauntleroy-Southworth have been assigned new ferries with im-
proved docking facilities, increased schedules, lower fares,
and parking facilities, and
WHEREAS, there have been no changes in docking facilities
on the Bremerton run, no new ferries, no parking facilities
provided, an increase in fares and a decrease in service and
schedules, and
WHEREAS, the failure to provide clean, modern and efficient
service on the Bremerton run has forced some ferry passengers
and shippers to move from the area or to use the other more
efficient services resulting in the decrease of income on the
Bremerton run mnd seriously affecting the Bremerton economy,
and
WHEREAS, it is generally believed that if the Bremerton
run was given facilities and schedules comparable to the
competing runs that the economy of Bremerton would be stablized,
that there would be an increase in the income of the Bremerton
run and it would become again a prime route of the system.
NOW THERE?ORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Bremerton that the Toll Bridge Authority be and it is
hereby requested to take an active part in the stablization of
this community by making it easily accessible to Seattle, its
people and commerce and, by assigning new ferries to the
Bremerton run, improving and enlarging the docking facilities
by establishing comparable rates and schedules with the compet-
itors of the Bremerton run.
PASSED AND ^?PROVED by the City Council of the City of
Bremer~on, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk
in authentication of such passage this ~~ay of April, 1959.
~H. -0 ~ DO~fSTAD,--~ayor
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