It's not really an island, is it?

A lot of people who move to Bainbridge immediately propose that the Agate Pass Bridge be closed, if not destroyed. It's quiet on Bainbridge, and in fact the bridge makes it less of an island. There's a lot of traffic across the bridge, some drivers heading to the Bainbridge ferry to Seattle, others heading to the Kitsap or Olympic peninsula in the other direction.

The bridge is a mixed blessing. Residents need not depend only on the Seattle ferry to get off the island (before 1950, it was either the main ferry or part of the mosquito fleet, small boats that stopped at various points on the island). But their connection to the rest of Kitsap County is also used by thousands of people travelling from Seattle to points west.