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The OP asked about cities. New Orleans has several ferries in the city proper and a few more in the metro. Houston has one in the city. I think Cincinnati still has one or two. Jacksonville has a couple nearby. St. Louis has at least one in the metro. Baton Rouge has one downtown. AA couple of ferries cross south of Portland OR. There were four near Detroit but I think Covid closed them. One was exclusively for trucks.
NY Waterway alone does about 30-35k trips/daily. They have been around for a long time (1980's) and started out as just between the NJ waterfront to Manhattan and shortly thereafter expanded their routes to all over the metro.
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.
Yes, the Alaska routes. Vancouver used to dominate, but Seattle has taken the lead in recent years. Ships got faster, and can now make it to the best areas with 6.5-day round trips from Seattle.
We often get three stops per day (mostly weekends) in the summer, meaning six sets of passengers come through per day.
Yes, the Alaska routes. Vancouver used to dominate, but Seattle has taken the lead in recent years. Ships got faster, and can now make it to the best areas with 6.5-day round trips from Seattle.
Yeah 1.2 million passengers from Seattle to Alaska annually. See a couple of cruise ships constantly on the sound.
The OP asked about cities. New Orleans has several ferries in the city proper and a few more in the metro. Houston has one in the city. I think Cincinnati still has one or two. Jacksonville has a couple nearby. St. Louis has at least one in the metro. Baton Rouge has one downtown. AA couple of ferries cross south of Portland OR. There were four near Detroit but I think Covid closed them. One was exclusively for trucks.
New Orleans has 2 operated by RTA. There are none in downtown Baton Rouge. The only one in metro BR is Plaquemine to Sunshine ferry.
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!!
In Vancouver I'd break it down between services that are actually part of the transit system, meaning you seamlessly can move between the Skytrain and busses to the Seabus, and private little ferries that take people around False Creek, and BC Ferries,
Vancouver has pretty much always had some sort of ferry service from the North Shore to downtown Vancouver before the Lions Gate Bridge was built in 1937. Then as the development of Lonsdale Quay ( a public market etc ) was created, a new service called the Seabus was built in 1977.
The Seabus is a 400 passenger only ferry that is part of the transit system and goes between downtown Vancouver and North Vancouver. It runs every 15 minutes for the 12 minute journey. It's very efficient at loading and unloading. One side of the ferry doors open to let passengers off, then the other side opens to let passengers in.
There are two private companies that have little cute passenger ( some are built for bikes as well ) ferries, used by locals and but mostly tourists, to get around False Creek. They are not part of the transit system, so you pay separately.
Then we have BC Ferries. Not part of the transit system per se, but on some shorter routes, like Langdale to Horseshoe Bay, or Horseshoe Bay to Bowen Island, I suppose someone may use it as transit if they worked in the Vancouver area.
Their ferries range in size from small car ferries to large vessels that hold 2,100 passengers & crew, and 358 cars.
This guy seems to only be interested in food, but gives an idea of the amenities on board, usually two restaurants, a cafe, lots of comfortable seating, work stations and kids play areas.
This ferry runs in the Burlington VT/Plattsburgh NY area across Lake Champlain: https://ferries.com/
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