A few years back, WSF raised the rates for the San Juan ferries (rather steeply)  more than they did the rest of the system to recover the extra costs associated with the longer runs.    Now that the goal is to raise revenue, they have applied an across the board increase.   Since this is applied to our "cost based" fare it means that simply because of our longer runs, we are paying a greater share of the revenue increase than the shorter, cheaper runs.    In effect, we are subsidizing the South Sound runs.

User fees and fares are complicated.   I would rather just pay taxes to support all of our transportation systems (the ferries are a tiny part of the overall state transportation budget.)    User fees are a regressive tax and it is never possible to make them fair.