I was on my roof just now watching a Red and White ferry pull in or drive around Pier 39 off San Francisco’s urban coastline. In the distance was th

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2024-11-09 01:00:03

I was on my roof just now watching a Red and White ferry pull in or drive around Pier 39 off San Francisco’s urban coastline. In the distance was the East Bay. You could see Berkeley, Richmond and if you turned your head the Bay Bridge that leads to Oakland. San Francisco is awesome. It got me thinking there should be more ferries though.

Today the primary way people move between San Francisco and the East Bay is by driving, the BART tube, Uber or Lyft — maybe soon self driving cars, a market Google owned Waymo is poised to conquer.

You can take ferries from Alameda, Richmond and Oakland into San Francisco. Hell you could even take a catamaran ferry from Vallejo which is pretty fast and puts up a big wake.

Routes to and from the East Bay are run by San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA). Which is a very rude name; it implies any time anyone would take a ferry was in an emergency 😂

There are separate, privately owned ferries that will take you to Sausalito, Larkspur, Tiburon, Richmond. All told, the ferries around the Bay, pre pandemic moved 16,000 people on a typical weekday 1 .