SEATTLE — Capping its busiest summer in years, Washington State Ferries is warning Labor Day weekend passengers to plan for the biggest weekend of travel since 2019.

Around 400,000 people are expected to travel between Thursday, Aug. 28, and Monday, Sept. 1 — about 100,000 more than last year.

Saturday will be the most hectic of the days, with more than 90,000 people anticipated to board a ferry that day. If that prediction is right, it would be the ninth day since 2019 that ridership topped 90,000 — and eight of those days happened this summer, all of them Saturdays.

Beyond the Saturday crush, the most crowded sailings for drivers will be westbound and onto an island from Thursday through Saturday, and eastbound and off-island Saturday through Monday.

With that in mind, people plannin

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