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A Strategy to Improve Public Transit with an Environmentally Friendly Ferry Service San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority Implementation and Operations Plan December 2002

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A Strategy to Improve Public Transit with an Environmentally Friendly Ferry Service

San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority

Implementation and Operations Plan

December 2002

Goals of the WTA Plan

Enhance transit options:

Add 31 new ferries to existing fleet

Add seven new routes

Triple ferry patronage from 6,625 to 20,682 daily passengers

Convenient ground connections

Launch new vessels that are 10 times cleaner than existing fleet.

What is the proposed new system?

New Routes

Redwood City

South San Francisco

Albany/Berkeley

Richmond

Hercules/Rodeo Martinez Antioch/ Pittsburg

Treasure Island

What is the proposed new system?

New Routes

Redwood City

South San Francisco

Albany/Berkeley

Richmond

Hercules/Rodeo Martinez Antioch/ Pittsburg

Treasure Island

Harbor Bay

Alameda/Oakland

Vallejo

Larkspur

Tiburon

Sausalito

Expanded service on existing routes

Phased Approach

Total Cost of System: $646million over ten years

Capital Costs: $396 million

Net Operating Costs: $46 million/year by 2015

How much does it cost?

How will it be funded?

• Catalyst for smart land use planning - Water

Transit Oriented Development (WaTODs) at

Alameda Point, Oakland, Redwood City,

Antioch, others

• Expands Emergency Response Capability

OTHER SOURCES OF FUNDING