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Ferries may someday run directly between Oakland and Vallejo, Berkeley and Larkspur, San Francisco and Hercules and Martinez. These are just a few of the new services that could eventually come to the Bay Area as the Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) refines its long term-planning.
Those new service concepts are the result of a survey conducted by WETA. From a release:
With your help, we received 1,300+ poll submissions between July 11, 2022 and August 31, 2022, and added 600+ subscribers to our project email list!
Combined with input from local elected officials, planning and transportation staff, and business and community representatives, this valuable public feedback helped inform the development of a series of San Francisco Bay Ferry service expansion concepts.
Another conceptual model WETA has put together based on survey feedback. Image: WETAAnother conceptual model WETA has put together based on survey feedback. Image: WETA
WETA is asking people interested in transit to study the initial concepts and give further feedback on their web page as they continue to work on expansion plans for the next 20 years.
"This service visioning effort is a unique opportunity to re-imagine water transit and address emerging priorities concerning the environment, mobility, accessibility, equity, economic development, emergency response, and quality of life throughout the Bay Area," writes WETA's staff.
Tell WETA, but also leave your suggestions and ideas in the comments below.
A little girl was run over and killed at a location where Caltrans and SFCTA now want to pump in more high-speed traffic through a freeway ramp widening. Then they wonder why Vision Zero is failing