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    "prose": "Kitsap Transit's Southworth fast ferry has nowhere to sleep at Southworth. That costs money, and the agency has put a number on it.\n\nMooring the boat at Southworth in its off hours would save an estimated $1.6 million a year.[^1] Today the ferry makes four trips a day between Southworth and Bremerton only to moor.[^2]\n\n## What has to happen first\n\nThe Southworth terminal needs upgrades before the fast ferry can tie up there.[^3] Washington State Ferries plans to finish a new terminal building at Southworth by 2028 and the dock by 2031.[^4]\n\nKitsap Transit looked at another berth first. It dropped a plan to moor at Harper Pier after neighbors opposed it.[^5]\n\n## Why the number matters\n\nThe fast ferries are busy. They carried 854,529 passengers in 2024.[^6] That was 11 percent more than the year before.[^7]\n\nRiders do not pay most of the bill. Fares covered 16 percent of operating costs in 2023.[^8] A voter-approved sales tax pays for the service.[^9] Money not spent running an empty boat to Bremerton is money that tax does not have to cover.",
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