This is a shell game. Right now a 'full' run (going over and back, say Clinton, to Mukilteo, to Clinton) takes an hour (or that's the schedule). On the 'new' Tokitae schedule, these change to two 55-minute runs, three 60-minute runs and two 65-minute runs, so over seven hours, there's no extra time added to the runs. Consider too, that one of the 55-minute short runs is between 4:10 and 5:05 p.m. at the height of rush hour. 

The bottom line is they've put a slow, fuel-inefficient ferry on our run that will never make the current schedule, no matter how they cook the books. Or, it will, but only if WSF runs these boats faster, which burns a whole lot of fuel (which is why they're not doing it). 

WSF built these inefficient boats and have been covering their butts ever since. But I also blame the Clinton Council, the Record and others for jumping on the 'bigger is better' bandwagon; their solution: give us two boats who can't stay on schedule, so we can compound the problem!