A small ticket price sign posted on the window of The Steamship Authority office at the Oak Bluffs Terminal may need to update its fine print, as several Cape communities hope to triple a fee that allows them to support the throngs of visitors and residents using their ferry ports each year.
For passengers taking a ferry between Falmouth and Barnstable on Cape Cod’s mainland and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, a 50-cent “embarkation fee” has been added to the ticket price for the past 20 years, collecting millions of dollars.
