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Thanks everyone for the replies so far. And please share maps!!
I also want to note that this isn’t a city vs city thread. The purpose is to share and learn information! Not to measure who has the largest or most routes or whatever compared to another!!
Around Miami people prefer to have their own personal boat transportation system.
I was wondering about Miami!!! I’ve been there countless times and I’ve never heard of any public transit system across the Biscayne, which is really unfortunate. I usually bus or bike it across from Miami to Miami Beach, but ughhhhhh Miami needs a system like this! Thanks for the insight though.
My bad. You’re right total passenger volume is higher. My brain was thinking car ferry and not the water taxies, also Staten Island has really increased volume in recent years.
I was wondering about Miami!!! I’ve been there countless times and I’ve never heard of any public transit system across the Biscayne, which is really unfortunate. I usually bus or bike it across from Miami to Miami Beach, but ughhhhhh Miami needs a system like this! Thanks for the insight though.
Thanks everyone for the replies so far. And please share maps!!
I also want to note that this isn’t a city vs city thread. The purpose is to share and learn information! Not to measure who has the largest or most routes or whatever compared to another!!
I highly recommend ferries and boats as a way to see NYC and travel throughout to travelers. It’s very overlooked, but also very affordable and efficient as well as scenic.
I would love to see maps of systems in other cities. Never knew that about Long Beach and that’s something I definitely want to try! It sounds amazing.
NYC does huge numbers of people. Seattle's superlatives are more about trips, routes, etc. I think about 5,000 walk off ferries at the Downtown terminal at morning rush hour, less than NYC.
Washington State Ferries (WSF?!) is the main system. Kitsap Transit and Metro Transit also run ferries.
PS, it's all accessible by roads too, aside from the San Juan Islands (any others?). But driving around takes a long time.
We're also the biggest cruise ship port on the West Coast. And we have a private company that does Victoria fast ferries.
Number of boats/ships, route miles, ok. I get that. But I still don't think that makes NYC small potatoes, especially when this thread is about cities, not states.
Interesting about the cruise ships. Is Seattle where people start the cruises to Alaska and visit glaciers? I think that's become by far the most memorable cruise on the west coast.
Never knew that about Long Beach and that’s something I definitely want to try! It sounds amazing.
Haha. It's not amazing, but it's interesting. It has two services. One goes between downtown Long Beach and a big Marina at the end of Long Beach. That takes 40 min each way and I've never been. The other service hasn't run since the pandemic and makes a triangle from downtown Long Beach to the cruise ships/queen mary and a hotel. That's only like 15 to 20 min RT.
Since this is North America, I’d go with BC Ferries for sheer reliance on ferries as the cornerstone of the transportation infrastructure. Vancouver Island is, err, an Island. The two major cities in the province, Vancouver and Victoria, require a ferry ride.
I imagine NYC has the most passengers per day in the United States. But ferries are an insignificant part of their transportation infrastructure compared to BC.
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