Seattle: City transportation
It's best to get around either on foot or on the free downtown buses. Cross out of the free zone - bordered by Jackson and Battery streets, 6th Avenue, and the waterfront - and you pay as you get off; come back in and you pay as you enter. Single fares vary between $1 and $1.75, and tickets are valid for an hour. Day-passes ($2; bought from the driver) are available on weekends and holidays: ticket books (for 10 and 20 rides; $10 and $20) can be purchased from the Metro Customer Assistance Offices at the Metro Transit Tunnel, Westlake Station, Fifth Avenue and Vine Street (Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm), or in the King Street Center, 201 S Jackson St (Mon-Fri 8am-5pm; call 24-Hour Rider Information tel 206/553-3000 or Bus-Time tel 206/287-8463 for automated schedule, ), and can be used on the overhead monorail ($1.25) between downtown and the Seattle Center, and on the waterfront streetcar ($1 off-peak, $1.75 peak).Washington State ferries run to Bainbridge Island and Bremerton; tickets from Pier 52, Colman Dock (tel 206/464-6400, ). Gray Line (tel 206/626-5208) organizes guided half-day bus tours ($27), or three-hour boat tours ($33), which are also offered by other local operators, the best choice being Argosy's Locks Cruise tour from Pier 57 (2 1/2 hrs, $30; tel 206/623-4252, ).
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