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Boats are fundamentally slow and cannot dock at the center of a city where most jobs are, but it's edges. Docking and boarding/unboarding is a minimum 5-10 min
by mahyarm 11y ago
Boats are fundamentally slow and cannot dock at the center of a city where most jobs are, but it's edges. Docking and boarding/unboarding is a minimum 5-10 minute process too. A really fast ferry goes at 30 knots, which is around 35 miles per hour. Often ferries are there because building the equivalent bridge or train doesn't meet the cost/benefit ratio, otherwise they are an inferior transportation option.
The reason why there probably isn't any service from jack london square is because it's faster to get to a bart station by bike or similar and then take the BART.
As for vallejo, there looks like there is a ferry service for some reason according to google maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B005'59.8%22N+122%C2%B015'46.6%22W/@38.0999405,-122.2637485,18z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B005'59.8%22N+122%C2...
- joshrotenberg 11y agoSorry, to clarify I was saying that the only ferry service that does exist is from Jack London Square and then north of that all the way up in Vallejo. The entire, pretty well populated chunk of the East Bay between those two points basically has BART from Richmond, AC Transit Transbay, or their cars as an option into SF and below. That was sufficient for a while, but is less so more and more.
- rsync 11y ago"Boats are fundamentally slow and cannot dock at the center of a city where most jobs are, but it's edges." The ferry terminal in San Francisco, on the embarcadaro, is about as central as central gets ... Yes, there is a Vallejo ferry which goes right to the center (see just above) of San Francisco.