As 2025 comes to an end, we’re digging back into our archives to revisit some of our favorite stories of the year. by Nathalie Graham As 2025 comes to an end, we’re digging back into our archives to revisit some of our favorite stories of the year. See them all here. We are so moist and soggy in this area. Majestic Puget Sound, glorious Elliott Bay, all those big, juicy lakes, and the super fun(d) Duwamish River. It’s a lot of water and shoreline—1,600 miles in Seattle and on Puget Sound—and it’s just sitting there. Why not plop a few boats down and call it a passenger ferry system? New York did it.  Unlike New York, we’re already ferry-philes. For the past 15 years, we’ve had a few walk-on passenger-only ferries. And our car-ferry system is the largest in the US, with 21 vessels and 10 routes. It carried 19.1 million passengers last year alone (about two-thirds of light-rail ridership) despite the ferries sucking rocks lately. Thanks, aging fleet and pandemic-era chaos. ...read more read less