Waterborne transportation
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The Mayor's office is running a long term sustainability plan for the city in the year 2030.
The comment period ends next Thursday, March 22.
PortSide supports clean water efforts and more public access to the waterfront, but we believe that a truly sustainable New York needs growth and innovation in waterborne transportation. As the city’s presentation has omitted the latter, we’ve chosen to stress it.
See our webpage about the issue.
Carolina Salguero
Director
PortSide NewYork
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The Mayor's office is running a long term sustainability plan for the city in the year 2030.
The comment period ends next Thursday, March 22.
PortSide supports clean water efforts and more public access to the waterfront, but we believe that a truly sustainable New York needs growth and innovation in waterborne transportation. As the city’s presentation has omitted the latter, we’ve chosen to stress it.
See our webpage about the issue.
Carolina Salguero
Director
PortSide NewYork
[quote]Originally posted by bernie on Mar 17, 2007 11:32 am US/Central:
...we believe that a truly sustainable New York needs growth and innovation in waterborne transportation. [/quote]
I could not agree more. For a city on an island(s) and so heavily reliant on its public transportation, the lack of major waterway transportation is pathetic. There should be Staten Island ferry size boats constantly circling Manhattan, stopping every 40 blocks or so. This is a quick, and easy alternative to the highly touted "2nd ave" line which is revered as a godsend but realistically will be just as crowded as the 4 train the day it opens 7 years from now or so.
Red tape, bureaucracy, political self-dealing; it took the water taxi years of political wrangling and calling in favors and the like to get a few stops open along their route. Public waterway transportation is an easy solution to a long standing transit congestion problem.
...we believe that a truly sustainable New York needs growth and innovation in waterborne transportation. [/quote]
I could not agree more. For a city on an island(s) and so heavily reliant on its public transportation, the lack of major waterway transportation is pathetic. There should be Staten Island ferry size boats constantly circling Manhattan, stopping every 40 blocks or so. This is a quick, and easy alternative to the highly touted "2nd ave" line which is revered as a godsend but realistically will be just as crowded as the 4 train the day it opens 7 years from now or so.
Red tape, bureaucracy, political self-dealing; it took the water taxi years of political wrangling and calling in favors and the like to get a few stops open along their route. Public waterway transportation is an easy solution to a long standing transit congestion problem.
Except when there's ice on the river.
But yeah, water ferries are the way to go. It's a great and quick ride to 34th street from the Water Taxi location...expecially when the beach is open in the summer/late fall. Like nothing else, unless you kayak.
But yeah, water ferries are the way to go. It's a great and quick ride to 34th street from the Water Taxi location...expecially when the beach is open in the summer/late fall. Like nothing else, unless you kayak.
ny watertaxi seems to have plans to step it up. i was on one of their newest ferries a few months ago. actually the owner was on the boat with several friends, etc. i asked about his plans and told him that i was moving to lic. he said they plan to add stops to dumbo, silvercup, and others. dumbo has been done, but that has made lic one-stop further, but the new boat is fast so net/net no change. still 26 min to wall st is a bit slow, that is what i told him. with all the new construction, a direct ferry would be better. also, route, wall st-broolklyn- 34th st-lic slows it down. he seemed keen on suggestions and improvements, but 26 min to wall st is slow, expecially considering how close it is. i have co-warkers that live in rumson, nj, that boat to the same dock, about 40 minutes.