Canadian money no good on our ferries
Canadians, the Washington State Ferry System would like you to get the rest of the way off their lawn. Starting on February 25th, Canadian currency will no longer be accepted for payment. Checks, too, are going away. (People pay to get on the ferries with checks? Apparently, not many of them do–”Checks accounted for less than 4.5 percent of all forms of payment collected by WSF in 2008. Eliminating checks will save as much as $50,000 annually in processing fees.”)
As it stand, the Anacortes ferry terminal is the only one that accepts Canadian currency these days anyhow, but no more of that. You also won’t be able to buy senior, disabled, or youth fares at the kiosks or online anymore. Starting February 25th, you’ll have to go to the tollbooth and show some sort of senior, disabled, or youth ID, to make sure that the discounts are only going to the people who deserve them.


