Abreu presses EDC on likelihood of West 125th ferry service
Abreu says the community wants ferry service; Wong says the vision study will explore alternative service models, including private operators.
You mentioned in your testimony that
you're looking potentially at private operators at the site.
We just want ferry service there.
And I have made this very, very clear in conversations in private, obviously now in public, that that's something that the community in West Harlem has been asking for for a very long time.
I mean, what's the likelihood that we're going to get ferry service there?
I think that the goal of our vision study is to expand the way we're thinking about ferries much broader than what we have in the past.
In the past, we're
We've looked at what is only NYC ferry.
Full-time, seven-day-a-week, every single day of the year, commuter service at all times.
And that has created certain constraints because it comes with such a high price tag.
One of the ways that we're approaching the vision study is exactly as you'd mentioned, to look at some of those alternative service models.
We haven't finished the work.
I think that we'd like to spend some more time as we go through this to understand, you know, with the routes that are operating nearby, does it make sense for a private operator?
Is that a conversation we can have with them to help see what they would need?
You know, those are the kind of things that we're going to explore as part of the study.