The Lummi Island Ferry, the Whatcom Chief, is planned to resume vehicle service around 4 p.m. Saturday, June 15, after a monthlong scheduled dry dock outage. As a result, the Lummi Island shuttle van will end its service and ferry parking will change.
Restoration of ferry service is contingent upon completion of remaining dry dock work, including sea trials, according to Whatcom County Public Works. If the date or time changes because of unforeseen circumstances, Public Works will provide an update.
The last passenger-only ferry service will run through midnight on Friday, June 14 at Gooseberry Point, according to Public Works. On Saturday, from midnight to around 4 p.m., there will be no ferry service during the dock changeover. Only one outage is anticipated while the dock modifications and floats are dismantled.
Lummi Island shuttle van service will make its scheduled runs through Sunday, June 16, according to public works. There will be no shuttle van service on Monday, June 17.
People who have vehicles parked either at the Gooseberry Point Dock parking or the Lummi Island main parking area will need to move their vehicles starting on Friday, according to Public Works. Any vehicles left in the area after the deadlines will impact ferry queuing traffic and will be subject to towing.
The parking areas include:
- Gooseberry Point Dock: Any vehicles parked on the curve or the traffic staging area must be moved by end of day Friday. Any vehicles parked in the dry dock-only accessible parking spaces must be moved by Sunday.
- Lummi Island main parking area: Any vehicles parked in the spaces that make up the ferry queing lane must be moved out of the way by end of day Friday.
- Lummi Island overflow parking: Any vehicles parked in the marked ferry gangway area must be moved out of the way by end of day Friday.
Annie Todd is CDN’s criminal justice/enterprise reporter; reach her at annietodd@cascadiadaily.com; 360-922-3090 ext. 130.
