South Point-Lofall or Port Ludlow-Kingston?
You’ll know on Friday.
State Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond, after reviewing results of an online public poll, will decide Friday whether six-week passenger ferry service when the Hood Canal Bridge is severed next year will run from South Point to Lofall or Port Ludlow to Kingston.
The survey — asking the public which location is better — closed at midnight last Friday with nearly 4,000 responding, said Becky Hixson, Hood Canal Bridge project business manager.
The state Department of Transportation survey is expected to settle the debate over the location of temporary passenger ferry service during the six weeks next May-June when contractor Kiewit-General Construction removes and replaces the floating bridge’s 47-year-old eastern half.
Without hinting any of the results, Hixson on Monday said the survey’s data were being tabulated for Hammond.
“These are definitely the best results I’ve seen from a survey that I’ve done,” said Hixson, recalling the 800 responses to a 2005 survey asking bridge users if they preferred a weekend or weekday closure to replace the on-ramps during that summer.
